[889] in athena10
Re: [ATN-4] More greeter candidates; vote today please
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Jan 22 13:01:32 2009
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:00:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>,
Athena 10 <athena10@mit.edu>, Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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I think I prefer no-border; I'm indifferent between solid-border and
no-feather.
-Tim Abbott
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Nelson Elhage wrote:
> I think I prefer solid-border, followed by no-border, and then
> no-feather.
>
> - Nelson
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:41:00AM -0500, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>> I have created 3 more alternatives:
>> (For some reason, when viewed in eye-of-gnome, all these PNGs look
>> slightly blurred, but there is in fact no "blurriness" or feathering on
>> any of the borders. They look fine when gdm displays them.)
>>
>> -screenshot-no-feather.png which removes the feathering around the
>> gradient.
>> -screenshot-solid-border.png which replaces the gradient border with a
>> slightly darker shade of red.
>> -screenshot-no-border.png which removes the gradient entirely
>>
>> The files are attachments to ATN-4 in Jira, and also appear in /mit/
>> jdreed/Public/gdmtheme/
>>
>> They are listed above in my order of preference from most preferred to
>> least preferred.
>>
>> Other people should rank them in order of preference (or tell me that
>> you don't care). Preferably today, so that we can close this issue and I
>> will package up the complete theme before tomorrow at noon.
>>
>> The background is still solid. Again, someone who knows and uses
>> Inkscape or Illustrator or something which can export SVGs should feel
>> free to create one, but I don't think that's a blocking issue.
>>
>> -Jon
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:09 PM, William Cattey wrote:
>>
>>> If I had the clue, I'd sit down in inkscape and create two png's:
>>>
>>> 1. A texture map to replace the solid background.
>>> 2. A version of the box around the login dialog that has a harder edge
>>> around it.
>>>
>>> -Bill
>>>
>>> On Jan 21, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hm, maybe I'm biased here, but I don't really see the advantage over
>>>> the present theme. It keeps the same garish giant red background
>>>> (which will only be more imposing on widescreen cluster machines),
>>>> although I do like punting the other UI elements from the center. I'm
>>>> also not a huge fan of the gradient and the fuzziness around it.
>>>>
>>>> I'd be interested to see some texture or full-screen abstract design
>>>> in the background.
>>>>
>>>> The bar at the bottom with buttons and icons at the bottom and a
>>>> date in the bottom right has a too-strong resemblance to gnome-panel
>>>> or somesuch. I do agree with comments elsewhere in the thread
>>>> concurring with the move to Gtk-native or at least non-flat buttons;
>>>> my design explicitly aped Athena 9's login screen and the website's
>>>> color and font scheme, and didn't try to be visually appealing in its
>>>> own right.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Geoffrey Thomas
>>>> geofft@mit.edu
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Jonathan D Reed wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> athena-10-fuzzbox.png which gets rid of the maroon background,
>>>>>> which gets rid of the blurring around the Debathena owl, but not
>>>>>> the login window.
>>>>>
>>>>> /mit/jdreed/Public/gdmtheme/athena10-alt-theme.tgz keeps the
>>>>> backgronud and gets rid of the feathering. screenshot-alt.jpg in
>>>>> the same directory is the screenshot, and I've uploaded a PNG
>>>>> version to Jira.
>>>>>
>>>>>> athena-10-whiteroom.png which gets rid of both the background and
>>>>>> the box around the login window.
>>>>>> The whiteroom alternative looks rather clean. Is it too sterile?
>>>>>
>>>>> I think it's way too sterile, to the point that it looks
>>>>> monochrome, but that's just me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Again, I'm happy to replace the background with an SVG if you want
>>>>> more texture, but I don't have the time to learn Inkscape right
>>>>> now.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Jon
>>>>>
>>>
>>
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