[2605] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Default background proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Fri Feb 23 04:21:48 2001
Message-Id: <200102230921.EAA20373@Press-Your-Luck.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: source-reviewers@MIT.EDU, aui@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: The events that comprise the history of the universe.
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 04:21:43 -0500
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
I'm sorry to say...it bugs me and makes me scowl. The color
is...blech, and it looks like the screen needs an ironing.
I was actually going to comment that the default Nautilus theme looks
pretty bad - at least on my 8-bit display. The Crux-Teal theme, on
the other hand, looks really nice and has a much more pleasing icon
set.
And actually, I think the default background for that theme is a lot
less barfy:
/mit/beland/aui-pics/default.gif
...though it still leaves something to be desired. Perhaps a nice
indigo?
/mit/beland/aui-pics/indigo.gif
I don't think color-consistency with mainline Gnome is terribly
important, especially since we are changing the icon set anyway. It's
also not a bad idea to have some visual cue that you're using
Athena-Gnome and *not* vanilla Gnome, since Athena magic makes will
not work in other environments.
Grf,
Beland
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