I love this idea so I did some mockups:
Desktop
Dash
Window Theme
Indicator Menu
I recommend downloading the attachments and viewing them fullscreen
to get a real idea.
The window theme and the indicator menu are not transparent, but I
don't think they need to be either. In this particular case
transparency adds graphical requirement without achieving a great
deal IMHO. I think that an opaque theme which dynamically matches
the background colour would work just as well.
Thoughts?
On 28/10/11 20:29, cmaglothin wrote:
Maybe, instead of having a dynamic panel, we should
implement a theme that is semitransparent and conforms to the
dominant background image color.
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Michal
Strba <faiface2202@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 10/28/2011 08:48 PM, Omar B. wrote:
Would
look more consistent and nice.
some mockups:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JSR8IC77Ub4/TTRwD1iIvKI/AAAAAAAABoM/yxWXeJR6ZCo/s1600/unity_global_menu_idea_by_musl1m-d3400kk.png
http://musl1m.deviantart.com/art/Unity-Global-Menu-Idea-188117732
Also, gnome-shell menus look way better, so unity is
very far behind here and is looking outdated compared to
many shells, even the "commercial" ones.
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From: frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:12:56 +0200
To: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ayatana] semi-transparent indicator menus
Unity introduces a new look, but Indicators Menus,
which were there
before the Dash, are not yet up to date in that
respect.
Obviously, there is no alpha for indicator menus, no
way to set
transparency in CCSM for them.
I'd like to have control over that as a power user,
power user being
the bridge between designers, developers and plain
users.
the main reason i see for having transparent indicator
menus is visual
consistency:
finally, we'd have one unified look for all of Unity,
of which
Indicator Menus imo are a part.
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But take a look on how it looks when window is maximized in
attached pictures. As I proposed some time ago, panel should
be dynamic, transparent only when there is no maximized window
and "normal" when there is.
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