NewWave
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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. Please read the guidelines of the project.
Palette
A 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 Gelatin theme and 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.
Concept Art
Sorry for the size: this is how it would look like on a 1024x768 screen.
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Alternative background (a better one IMO):
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Alternative icons and different glow on the button (the best one for me):
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Contributions
Guidelines
- For images, use a low resolution picture in the wiki page. It should be no taller than 240 pixels. If you need to upload higher resolutions, please upload them as an attachment and link to them from the page.
There are two tools located at Artwork/Documentation/Software/Wiki_Scripts to help you with this
Use attachment:thumbnail.png and [attachment:file.png linkname]
Use @SIG@ to leave your signature at the end of your comment. New comments should be placed at the bottom of the feedback.
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 0.5. Now the focus is dedicated to the Layered view. (AntonKerezov)
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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)
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2. New Wave Pack V. 0.2 - Zoom
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3. New Wave Pack V. 0.3
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4. New Wave Pack V. 0.3 - Zoom
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Theme Engine
Efforts to customize clearlooks have been stopped. Instead the theme is now based on the pixmap engine.
Download
If you want to test the theme (gtk, metacity and emerald themes included): New Wave Alpha Pack v0.5.1
Older packages:
Theme Engine:
Known Issues
Firefox/Thinderbird menubar unreadable text. To solve this you need to put the file 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.
OpenOffice.org problem similar to Firefox one
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 creating a .deb file.
- Icon makers with good artistic skills.
You can participate by joining the New Wave Team at New Wave Theme Suit launchpad project.
Gallery of old versions
1. Layered View 0.4.x
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2. One whole top 0.4.x
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Comments
To use in gutsy edit the gtkrc file and remove all references to reliefstyle and hint - -- ryanhaigh 2008-05-03 16:23:46
- 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 2008-05-11 17:18:29
- 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 2008-05-03 16:23:46
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 2008-05-16 05:26:26
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 2008-05-03 16:23:46
- This looks too much like Windows before Vista. With the gray, the black bars, and nothing really very different from the old style, this should not replace the current theme. While the current theme is still reminiscent of Windows ME, we shouldn't go further in that direction.
Very smooth looking, I like it. Again, as with most themes, I think you need to stick with Ubuntu colours and not grey, although the first one, with the black menu bar is absolutely beautiful. -- Brettalton 2008-06-18 22:30:37
- I really like the smooth look of the panels, as well as the black color scheme. However, I do not care particularly for the use of a black border along the tops of your active windows, or the look of the close, minimize and maximise buttons. The black border along the top looks very much like a Microsoft holdover -- it would look better with one uniform panel treatment. Also, you should make your close, minimize and maximize buttons more distinct. I personally am prone to the Ubuntunion theme's corner window buttons -- perhaps you could try something like that. Keep up the good work! -- Brian Fleeger 29 June 2008
- Unlike the comment above I really like the close, minimise and maximise buttons on your version 0.4. They are very clean (white on a dark background) which seems to be the way that much UI design is progressing. Infact I would like to see all icons in a theme monochrome and bold. The other reason I like them is that they have a small and suitle reference to the circles in the unbuntu logo which has been lacking in past themes. Keep pushing the norm with this design. --Drew
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