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Re: Graphic design meeting 1pm Monday, Zone

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Sat Jul 22 09:01:14 2000

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To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU, plitwack@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:56:10 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 09:03:39 -0400
From: Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>

>  - For taskbar icons and backgrounds, we'd like to seriously limit the
>    number of colors used, so that they look good on 8-bit displays,

You'll probably need to kill the anti-aliasing too. Unfortunately,
you'll need to do that in a bunch of places probably...

>  - What are the standard 16 colors in Gnome, anyway?

Do you have some reason to believe any such thing exists? I've never
heard anything like that. The icons weren't even all designed by the
same people, or in the same style...

>     - Emacs: Ok, needs fewer colors

Ugh. I hate that icon. :)

>  * We might want a custom Sawfish (window manager) theme done up, but
>    development on it needs to settle out first.

I don't know if there are any plans to ship sawfish 1.0 any time soon.

-- Dan

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