On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 15:04 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 15:09 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Bill Nottingham (notting@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > Adam Williamson (awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > it still has a lot of raw edges. GTK+3 apps, at present, seem to be very > > > > uglily (is that a word?) themed, for some reason - some all-grey theme > > > > that looks like it came from a 1996 Solaris machine or something - and > > > > there's lots of other sharp edges. > > > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658605 > > > > And running "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Adwaita'" > > should give you something better. > > okay, so now I got this to work, can I complain that adwaita is really > pretty ugly? :) > > the dark grey gradient on toolbars really doesn't look nice, especially > with toolbar icons disabled. There seems to be rather too much padding > space on the edges of tabs and toolbars, it looks 'fat'. I can see the > idea behind having the default / selected-by-tab button in dialogs go > bright blue, it's more visible than a faint outline, but it looks really > pretty ugly to me. Greyed out text on toolbars is barely visible. I also > don't like the very subtle indication of which window is focused; > focused windows look like unfocused windows did in clearlooks, it's > pretty jarring. I guess you might get used to it after a while. I do > like the scrollbars, they're nice. > > honestly it looks a hell of a lot worse than clearlooks, so far, to me. > Didn't clearlooks change from a really aggressive blue color for > selections and scrollbars to the much subtler blue it has now after > people complained? Why go back to a really aggressive blue for adwaita, > then? I like it better than clearlooks myself. In any case, file bugs upstream if you don't like it. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
