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5.x Design Guidelines
Zendrael:
Hello all!
We will be defining the 5.x series Design Guidelines here.
* Do we follow the concept of KISS of the Core and create minimalistic themes?
* Is it necessary to go 3D or some other style?
* How the default icons should look like?
* Which app or wm we should create a theme?
* Which toolkit are more important in this first version? GTK? QT? <Your Prefered One>?
* Does it need a Wallpaper?
* Does the logo need a redesign?
* Do you use some bootsplash? Which one?I hope we could have some help here to get it working and good ideas to share!
Feel free to post a mockup of your idea!
Thanks!
Misalf:
I'm not sure where you want to go so I hope its OK if I just drop my two cents.
I have recently played with compiz which is amazing but actually just a fun way to waste some time, not the KISS way, though I don't see any reason to not post themes/artwork for compiz since its available for TC.
Usually I prefer minimalism over fancyness but I also prefer functionality and/or visually appealing themes which, at the same time, do not distract me. F.e. I always disable the Themes service on WinXP but I don't do so on Win7 where I'd loose some functionality.
Shortly before my TC4.7.7 USB installation died, I removed lots of icons from the gnome-icon-theme, hoping to reduce the ballast by eliminating which I found to be ugly anyway (several MB that was, I think). Might be nice to have a lighter replacement.
I got used to use Fluxbox which is easy to create themes for I think (I edited an existing one which nearly suited my taste). While JWM or FLWM are functional, they are ugly as hell by default (which scared me) - these might need nicer themes.
I don't like wallpapers. I usually set my background to just black. Actually I just found out today that Fluxbox has some nice backround features so I made my 'wallpaper' to be a dark gray grid on black background.
--- Code: ---fbsetroot -foreground rgb:0C/0C/0C -background rgb:04/04/04 -mod 16 16
--- End code ---
added to ~/.setbackground
"hsetroot ..." commented out.
I like the TinyCore logo a lot. Though as it has been said, visibility is not that good on dark background.
I always prefer my PC to boot quickly. Boot Splash is not for me.
I'm even using logo.nologo boot code. Not sure though if it has a significant effect on speed.
tinypoodle:
--- Quote from: Misalf on September 17, 2013, 03:25:28 PM ---While JWM or FLWM are functional, they are ugly as hell by default (which scared me) - these might need nicer themes.
--- End quote ---
jwm is shipped with a theme included in extension.
I'd doubt anything could be changed with flwm in particular at runtime - besides from the generally applying fltk options.
Zendrael:
We could start (try) supporting / creating themes for the already supported WindowManagers used in CorePlus, as they are "default".
QT and GTK can be created from another minamalistic theme, or, if we find a good one, it can be the one to ship in an extension (given the author credits, of course).
A themes that integrates well between QT and GTK will be the best one, including the lightweight.
The icons that I mentionet is not a full icon pack, just icons for the base apps.
Any suggestions?
Will post a screenshot of my actual system later.
Misalf:
None of the 'System Tools' have window/taskbar icons in Fluxbox but they do in FLWM. Don't know about the other WMs.
Maybe this can also be taken care of?
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