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Re: colours

 

what does green have to filosophy of either ubuntu or LXDE? and why purple
doesn't?
but I even like the screenshots, even though it resembles openSUSE, which
associates me badly. the green used there is not so dirty as I was almost
sure it would be, and problably it is why I have ben so plesantly suprised
:) but still i'd use a darker and more pure colour for titlebar of second
screen.

2010/2/18 jo franz <jo.ge.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> hm, ok, purple is a trendcolour. thats right, its in (even if some
> magazines say that grey is the new purple), but it will become out again.
> maybe one year, maybe three, but same as neon-colours: totally cool now (and
> in the 80ies), but forgotten and ugly in some years.
> Our logo (and thats were i want the colourchange, even if the ubuntu logo
> is yellow and orange and brown, many parts of the standard theme are grey)
> should have a colour thats always ok, like a evergreen . purple has nothing
> to do with the philosophy of lxde or lubuntu. green has.  i changed your
> screenshot to green (just for comparison) and made some on my own.
>
> i made the files brown, a purple/blue/green wallpaper and logo doesn't meen
> that every little symbol has to have that colour.
> best regards, jo.
>
>
> 2010/2/18 Sylkis <sylkis@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I didn't say it's pink. but it's more of a tone of pinkish varieties of
>> violet ;) and I just know how many people would react depite it looks good
>>
>>
>> 2010/2/18 Jonay Santana <jonay.santana@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>   Looks nice to me. And I wouldn't call it "pink", it looks more like
>>> "purple"... ;)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Sylkis <sylkis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think it is going in a good direction - a minimal gamma correction to
>>>> make it look less pink (especially the lighter part of wallparer), maybe
>>>> base it on #4B0082 indigo? and I think we have an original, good look. I
>>>> think it's nice even now, but many people would call it 'gay' (I didn't want
>>>> to use that word, but don't know how to say that nicely, I hope you guys
>>>> understand), that why I propose less pinkish hue.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2010/2/18 神癒礁湖 <rafaellaguna@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>>>  Wow, I see an explossion about colour issue. Please, check the theme
>>>>> wiki and see the options. I've made a few wallpapers for matching the blue
>>>>> colours. And I must be clear, I've received from Canonical the colour
>>>>> specifications about usage, logos, trademarks and Pantone™ references.
>>>>> That's why Xubuntu and Kubuntu (and "official" derivatives, as we want to
>>>>> be) are "blue". Anyway, look at this shot:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is the purple / pink background with dark panel. As you can see
>>>>> there're a lot of combinations, but remaining theme specs. I'll made a poll
>>>>> to request your preferences about GUI details.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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