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Grey isn't even a true color is it ?
Posted: Thu 10 Sep 2009, 17:04
by nancy reagan
Given things can be given back (e.g. if you do not linbe them at all).
However if Barry stays stubborn about the gggr ey in the last 4 issue (would have been more businesslike to stay in line with at least the blue of its predessors in the 4 series. After that, in the 5 series, he can switch to gggr ....ey - and stick to it - and not change color and/or desktop every update - .
The green green grass of home ...
Well grey is very depressing to me (they are going to paint this flatbuilding grey as in Eastern Germany) therefore I suggest to pay extra notice to the BRIGHTNESS COLORS OF THE ICONS
That said I suggest for the 5 series to distinguish between the updates by colour of the iconsm, or just a bar or a unique symbol ?
Newcomers might go astray with all those distroes.
It is something like packing a diamond (=Puppy) into a tupperware plastic box
Posted: Fri 11 Sep 2009, 16:05
by dejan555
Just a thought...

I'd make it look something like this, not exactly this wallpaper, but something similar, clean vector one with pleasant colors, yet that looks professional too. I think I saw screenshot in other thread with one that would match perfectly. I just made that jwm theme imitating similar "chocolate theme" for fluxbox.
Click for full size^^
Posted: Fri 11 Sep 2009, 16:27
by Sylvander
Nice, but somewhat extreme [in color depth].
A little more subtlety required.

Posted: Fri 11 Sep 2009, 17:30
by dejan555
Yes, like I said, some simple vector wall, I made that one just to show concept, what I had in mind.
Posted: Fri 11 Sep 2009, 18:13
by nancy reagan
I like your warm background color Dejan.
Though all the different colors of the icons make it a bit chaotic.
I miss the puppy eyes.
Posted: Fri 11 Sep 2009, 22:14
by 01micko
Hmmm,
So people want colour?
What about these variants on the original brushed metal puppy wallpaper?
Bronze, steel, gold and copper.
Cheers
Posted: Fri 11 Sep 2009, 22:52
by craftybear
01micko wrote:What about these variants on the original brushed metal puppy wallpaper?
Bronze, steel, gold and copper.
Put 'em ALL IN!

How much can it add anyway? I've seen similar sets of papers (without the logo of course) for OpenSUSE and Ubuntu as well, although the latter only changes the shade of brown.
Posted: Sat 12 Sep 2009, 00:41
by 01micko
Well I've been playing with the gold image....
So, what we have here is brushed-gold.jpg as the wall, japan-pup-icons.pet from puppy-look.tk, gradient brown GTK theme already in puppy, and Light Looks Gold JWM theme from puppy-look.tk, oh and changed text colour under icons to the background window colour ( a very light grey-brown) with black thick shadow.
I think it looks sophisticated yet simple... colourful without being garish. The icons seem to suit it somehow.
Thoughts?
Posted: Sat 12 Sep 2009, 05:06
by James C
Nice combo.......
Posted: Sat 12 Sep 2009, 05:35
by DaveS
Posted: Sat 12 Sep 2009, 05:44
by James C
That is the exact wallpaper and icons I'm running on 4.24, you have great taste.
Posted: Sat 12 Sep 2009, 13:09
by 01micko
ttuuxxx you were right! Barry will change the wall on a whim! That's ok... I have a cool alternative to the default in 4.3beta3... well not me but our friend jebaJQ8... the "ocean" wallpaper.. posted a few days ago on the wallpaper thread.
Cheers!.
Posted: Sat 12 Sep 2009, 14:06
by ttuuxxx
Hi mick
That wallpaper is nice, but if the image and logo is over water, then ummmmmmmmmmm shouldn't it also have a mirror image on the water kind of faded out, maybe even rippled effect?
ttuuxxx
Posted: Sat 12 Sep 2009, 14:22
by ttuuxxx
I was thinking like this

ttuuxxx
Posted: Sat 12 Sep 2009, 14:37
by 01micko
Ok then...
Posted: Sat 12 Sep 2009, 15:20
by dejan555
That's cool
Logo over water
Posted: Sat 12 Sep 2009, 19:19
by dogone
ttuuxxx wrote:I was thinking like this

ttuuxxx
Hey ttuuxxx, that reflection looks a bit on the devilish side. We don't want to scare the kids. Can you soften the ripples a bit and fix the physics?
Posted: Sat 12 Sep 2009, 21:02
by dejan555
Well, I see we're back to good ol' blue again, this is the best I can come up with:
Wallpaper | 1024x768 | JPG | 39 KB |
Link
Iconset:
Lagadesk-Bluenight
JWM Theme attached, made with jwm theme maker
Posted: Sun 13 Sep 2009, 05:12
by DaveS
Yep Dejan, that is about as blue as it gets

Posted: Tue 15 Sep 2009, 02:43
by sinc
@dejan: I posted this on the beta3 thread but maybe this is the better place for it.
i love your blue theme suggestion but with that icon set the mounted icon doesn't change with the rest of the icons. you can even see it in your picture - sdb2 is a different icon. and if you mount one of the other drives it gives no indication it is mounted.

but thats the theme i would vote for.