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| The technical goal of Impression and Night Impression for Lucid Lynx is to bring both to a common code base. The differences between the two themes can be seen in the background color of menu panels, the color of scroll bars, and the adoption of the Humanity icon theme for Impression and the Humanity-Dark icon theme for Night Impression. | For Lucid Lynx , the technical goal of Impression and Night Impression is to bring both themes to a common code base. The differences between the two themes is visible in the background color of the menu panels, the color of the scroll bars, and the adoption of the Humanity icon theme for Impression and the Humanity-Dark icon theme for Night Impression. |
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| The desire of the Impression series is to offer two additional themes from the Ubuntu community to stand side-by-side with the professionally developed Human theme from Canonical. | The desire is to offer two themes from the Ubuntu community to stand side-by-side with the professionally developed Human theme from Canonical. |
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| The design goal of these themes is to enhance the user computing experience by applying balance and harmony to the Gnome Desktop framing applications in such a manner as to permit the eye to focus without distraction on the content displayed. | The objective is to enhance the user computing experience by applying balance and harmony to the Gnome Desktop framing applications in such a manner as to permit the eye to focus without distraction on the content displayed. |
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| As many users express a desire to use a theme framed in dark borders and titles as evidenced by the number of "dark" themes submitted to sites such as Ubuntu Art and Gnome Art, the pallets of Impression and Night Impression are as dark as practical. | As many users express a desire to use a theme framed in dark borders and titles as evidenced by the number of "dark" themes submitted to sites such as Ubuntu Art and Gnome Art, the pallets of Impression and Night Impression are as dark as practical. |
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| Many applications hosted by the Gnome desktop were designed on the assumption the theme would be brushed in lighter colors and do not present well against a dark canvas. Key applications from the standard Ubuntu installation provided guidance on creating the final solution. For the most part icons were the measure for setting background colors. Not only icons from the desktop, but embedded icons in applications. An icon which is predominately dark will not display or display poorly on a dark background. | The author assumes many Gnome applications were designed anticipating the desktop would be brushed in lighter colors and these solutions may not present well against a dark canvas. Key subject areas from the standard Ubuntu installation provided guidance in creating the final solution. For the most part desktop and embedded application icons were the metric for determining panel colors. The author concedes dark icons display poorly against a dark background. |
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| Once the base color was discovered the task became adding additional complimentary colors. The "toolbar" provides a styling opportunity using gradient functionality of the murrine engine. Lighting the "toolbar" buttons is another opportunity as exhibited by Nautilus. | Once the base color was discovered the task became adding additional complimentary colors. The "toolbar" provides a styling opportunity using adding the gradient functionality of the murrine engine. Lighting the "toolbar" buttons is another opportunity as exhibited by Nautilus. |
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| Bluefish is a good example of Notebook tabs which are also themed in Firefox. | Bluefish is a good example of the use of Notebook tabs which are also themed in Firefox. |
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| Finally, the gold standard in my opinion is Inkscape which makes use of a wide variety of widgets. | Finally, the gold standard in my opinion is the Inkscape application which uses a wide variety of GTK widgets. |
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For Lucid Lynx , the technical goal of Impression and Night Impression is to bring both themes to a common code base. The differences between the two themes is visible in the background color of the menu panels, the color of the scroll bars, and the adoption of the Humanity icon theme for Impression and the Humanity-Dark icon theme for Night Impression.
The desire is to offer two themes from the Ubuntu community to stand side-by-side with the professionally developed Human theme from Canonical.
The objective is to enhance the user computing experience by applying balance and harmony to the Gnome Desktop framing applications in such a manner as to permit the eye to focus without distraction on the content displayed.
As many users express a desire to use a theme framed in dark borders and titles as evidenced by the number of "dark" themes submitted to sites such as Ubuntu Art and Gnome Art, the pallets of Impression and Night Impression are as dark as practical.
The author assumes many Gnome applications were designed anticipating the desktop would be brushed in lighter colors and these solutions may not present well against a dark canvas. Key subject areas from the standard Ubuntu installation provided guidance in creating the final solution. For the most part desktop and embedded application icons were the metric for determining panel colors. The author concedes dark icons display poorly against a dark background.
Once the base color was discovered the task became adding additional complimentary colors. The "toolbar" provides a styling opportunity using adding the gradient functionality of the murrine engine. Lighting the "toolbar" buttons is another opportunity as exhibited by Nautilus.
Bluefish is a good example of the use of Notebook tabs which are also themed in Firefox.
Finally, the gold standard in my opinion is the Inkscape application which uses a wide variety of GTK widgets.
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