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Re: colours

 

Yes, couldn't we put  bunch of options up on the wiki or something and
everyone could vote?
Seems the most democratic way of doing things to me.

Doug

2010/2/18 Andrew Woodhead <andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> How about a few screenshots in a few different colours to see what the
> consensus is?
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> 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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