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Re: colours

 

one more screenshot, this time without windows.

2010/2/18 Glen Bizeau <gbizeau@xxxxxxxxx>

> I like the green, it's pleasing, and also one of LXDE's prime colors.
>
> 2010/2/18 Jo Gerb <jo.ge.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> its just that lubuntuusers wont have to buy a new computer, they can still
>> use their old one (good for our planet). Lubuntu needs less ressources than
>> other distributions. lxde is leightweight, and i dont know, but i associate
>> that with green. like a flower or a tree that can grow on a little piece of
>> earth with some water and some light not needing much more, lubuntu will be
>> usable on (almost) every hardware.
>>
>> 2010/2/18 Sylkis <sylkis@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> 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(tm) 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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>>>>>> Jonay
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