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NewWave

It is time to give a modern look to our favorite distribution! The new theme should make a more clever use of orange than previously (not over-use it), should be mainly color-neutral, and everyting except taskbars and windows borders should be white or light gray for readability reasons and to keep everything less heavy than many existing dark themes.

Palette

A [http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs27/f/2008/122/6/7/Agroprogress_by_denull.jpg good starting point] for the palette (missing some light gray):

Concept

This artwork gets rid of the old-fashion looking GLASSY effect, which was cool 6 years ago. Time to move on!

This is inspired by the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/gelatin Gelatin theme] and [http://lassekongo83.deviantart.com/art/Elements-VS-82691770 this XP theme].

The icons used in "places" are not mandatory; I just tried something new, but I'm sure we can find something - not glassy - better.

Anchor(ConceptArt) Concept Art

Sorry for the size: this is how it would look like on a 1024x768 screen.

Alternative background (a better one IMO):

Alternative icons and different glow on the button (the best one for me):

Contributions

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Progress

Compiz, gtkrc File and Emerald

As the theme progress we will upload images of the latest version and keep only important steps of its evolution.

The current state of the theme as posting this is 0.4 with two variatons of the windows' top. (AntonKerezov)

1. Layered View

2. One whole top

Metacity and gtkrc

We will upload here the latest images of the latest version with Metacity. The current state of the theme as posting this is 0.4 with two variatons of the windows' top.

1. New Wave Pack V. 0.2 (With opacity of metacity set to 0.58)

2. New Wave Pack V. 0.2 - Zoom

3. New Wave Pack V. 0.3

4. New Wave Pack V. 0.3 - Zoom

Theme Engine

The engine is based on Clearlooks. I've managed to add new style to it : NEWWAVE (like GUMMY). But so far nothing significant. Some apps crash maybe due to inccorect library location (just symlink) or I don't know - without a reason.

Download

If you want to test the theme (metacity included): [attachment:new-wave043.tar.gz New Wave Alpha Pack v0.4.3]

Older packages:

[attachment:new-wave042.tar.gz New Wave Alpha Pack v0.4.2]

[attachment:new-wave041.tar.gz New Wave Alpha Pack v0.4.1]

[attachment:new-wave04.tar.gz New Wave Alpha Pack v0.4]

[attachment:new-wave03.tar.gz New Wave Alpha Pack v0.3]

Theme Engine:

[attachment:nw-engine01.tar.gz New Wave Engine v0.1]

Known Issues

• Firefox/Thinderbird menubar unreadable text. To solve this you need to put the file [attachment:fix_userChrome.css userChrome.css] in you profile's directory. For Firefox the path is ~/.mozilla/firefox/(xxxx).default/chrome/ where (xxxx) is some text different over installations. For Thunderbird the procedure should be the same. As of New Wave version 0.4.2 the patch is included in the theme pack.

• A tab page in Evolution > Preferences is drawn incorrectly due to bad programming style of Evolution developers. A bug is reported in GNOME bugzilla but no answer so far.

Help Needed

The theme team needs your help for the following things:

• Testers to try out the theme and find more issues.
• A css/Firefox guru to fix completely the issue with menus in Firefox/Thunderbird
• A man to help with moving the theme to launchpad and creating a .deb file.

Comments

• Honestly, this is really no different and less easy on the eyes as the current theme. It looks still like a 90's operating system.

  • Would you mind explaining the issues you see, and perhaps providing examples of how this is similar to an operating system from the 90s? By the way, you can use SIG surrounded by "At" signs to sign your comments. -- DylanMccall DateTime(2008-05-11T17:18:29Z)

• Yeah, this isn't really any different. I don't see why we aren't pursuing a much better interface, instead of just revamping an old one.

  • Those are really constructive critics, and moreover they are not signed. People who want to work on NewWave just do, it is one project among others. If you have better ideas, just expose them, build your own team and work on your project. Next time such a stupid comment with no signature is posted I'll simply delete it instead of taking my time to answer it. -- fde DateTime(2008-05-03T16:23:46Z)

• Try using some better fonts, something similar, but open source, to Myriad. Maybe use some better icons, instead of icons that are still in the same style as icons created in 2002. This could be a bit better just by simple adjustments. -- Acelin DateTime(2008-05-16T05:26:26Z)

  • We are currently working on a new icon theme based on Elementary Icons (see www.gnome-look.org to find them). I agree for the font, but it is really uneasy to find one which looks fine in every case. -- fde DateTime(2008-05-03T16:23:46Z)

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