[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Gnome Themes



Kenny Hitt wrote:
Once you have Gnome and probably gnopernicus up and running,
Gnome does run but Gnopernicus has no sound. My friend forgot to apply the changes so that sound will work after a reboot and I'll have to wait for him to fix the system. There was a nice howto about AWE cards and Debian. Founded it by Googling with debian awe32.

find what you want already exists.
That's possible, although I doubt it. I have not been very happy with the default highcontrast schemes Windows or Macintosh (OS X) offers. The contrasts are actually too high, so that it is straining to my eyes in general (I prefer off-whites and cyan).

Also, another thing that high contrast authors tend to forget is contrast between background elements. In all of the highcontrast schemes I've seen so far, the contrast between dialog and field (window) colors is minimal. My goal is to make a theme in which all widgets and elements are clearly distinguishable. That is there's a clear contrast between dialog and field backgrounds but the dialog is still light enough to provide good text against black background. I'll go a step further in Gnome, and make dialogs light cyan and fields dark blue. I'm going to "paint" buttons black to make them stand out as well, another thing that is not possible in windows (Paint it black, hehe).

By modifying the field colors, I get a nice light on dark effect in larger text fields, such as basic editors. I used to like Edit in the DOs days <insert evil Linux laughter>, and use a bit similar white on blue color scheme in Windows editors as well. Speaking of evil, my Windows screen reader reads eval and evil the same way. So I thought Perl actually has an evil statement.

customize an existing theme to get what you want.
That's certainly easier, agreedd. I did my first CSs with that method, using an existing page as a template.

use dpkg --status to make sure the gnome-accessibility-themes got installed.
THX.

manages the look and behavior of your windows.
If I want to change the color of the title bars, does that mean I need to make a separate window manager theme in stead of hacking a Gnome theme? I think I'll stick to metacity, because of accessibility.

Hope this helps.
It does.

--
With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä (vtatila@mail.student.oulu.fi)
Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and more:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila


Reply to: