New Wave theme Brainstorm

[SerenityKill3r]

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but when I resize a window, theres a gap that appears quickly between the window border and the menubar (File, Edit, View etc.).

It's most noticeable in minimising and maximising applications.

[dilomo]

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but when I resize a window, theres a gap that appears quickly between the window border and the menubar (File, Edit, View etc.).

It's most noticeable in minimising and maximising applications.

Can you show a screenshot?

[SerenityKill3r]

Can you show a screenshot?

it happens too fast to capture, but its still noticeable, and can be annoying if I'm doing alot of minimising and maximising.

Chances are its a compiz issue, and not an issue with the theme.

[dilomo]

it happens too fast to capture, but its still noticeable, and can be annoying if I'm doing alot of minimising and maximising.

Chances are its a compiz issue, and not an issue with the theme.

The chance is quite big if the gap appears between the menubar an the titlebar but if it appears in the place of the menubar it is a slow not optimize pixmap engine. If so I'll try to fix it in the next release by minimizing color variation.

[dilomo]

It's been a while since I posted back here but now I would like to ask everybody of what they think of the scrollbar arrow positions in New Wave 0.8.0?

Which one of the following variations you like most:
a- Arrows at top and bottom
b- Arrows at bottom
c- Arrows at top
d- No arrows at all( New Wave 0.8 was designed with this in mind)

Please write explanation if possible.

So nobody want's the arrows to be changed?

[dsavi]

Personally I like the arrows as they are in Jaunty, (Which version of New Wave that is I do not know) both at the bottom.

Thanks for making it, New Wave has finally convinced me that Gnome can be graphically superior to Windows and Mac OS X. Do you have a degree in graphic design or something?

[dilomo]

Thanks for making it, New Wave has finally convinced me that Gnome can be graphically superior to Windows and Mac OS X. Do you have a degree in graphic design or something?

Well not exactly but I'm in the architecture filed so I know smth about color, composition and accuracy

[benjamimgois]

Hi Dilomo,

Personaly, i prefer the tradicional way, with narrows at the top and bottom. I think that it's more intuitive, and easier for new users.

The only point, that i think that it could be better on New Wave is the Metacity Buttons, they are good, but not that good in my opinion. I would like to suggest the ones used on "Impression" theme.




At least for me, they look modern and pretty.

Congratulations for the great job, New Wave stills one of the bests themes already done for gnome.

[dilomo]

Thanks.

I know of this metacity but think that is not intuitive enough for new users. I know that the current New Wave theme's metacity is not the best one. So I will try to make a refined version for the next release but I don't promise this yet as I have a lot of other work.

[benjamimgois]

Hey Dilommo, a new ubuntu version is comming, and there's a lot of changes in the UI and in the Human-theme. But, at least for me, new wave still has the best look ever, and even fits well with the new boot screen. I'm not an artist, but i have some suggestions to improve new wave.

• The metacity buttons that will be used on Opensuse 11.2, they look simple and nice and could fit well on new wave.
• Metacity borders and scrools from Humanity 1.2, could give a more modern look.

obs: The scrools could continue to use gray and orange, in the same way as new wave is now, but use the style of humanity 1.2. Take a look at the screenshots below.

Well this is just a suggestion, i hope this could help in some way.