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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In my previous mail I stated that we don't have a style guide, this is 
plainly incorrect as we do have http://design.ubuntu.com featuring lots 
of information on style for communication pieces and web based stuff. 
Looking through it though I can't see that it is a style I would want to 
apply to a web application, and if I did, it wouldn't really look like a 
seamless part of the desktop.
On the desktop we have the chameleon coloured launcher, with the buttons 
with particular shading, we have the top panel with a particular grey 
colour, we have windows with round corners at the top and square corners 
at the botom, with a shadow, the top bar is the same dark grey as the 
top panel. The HUD and dash have white text on the cameleon background 
and a fat grey border with a shadow (none of our shadows match by the 
way) None of this appears to be in the design guide, and if I do put 
together a website that matches the design guides perfectly it still 
doesn't really look like it natively belongs on the desktop.

I am not quite sure how to deal with this, perhaps we should be trying 
to use dots on the desktop somewhere (perhaps window status bars should 
have tight enterprise dots on them or something) and pick out more of 
the colour palette in the launcher and panel. Having the chameleon 
colour and window title/panel colour exposed into the browser through 
webapp integration would be helpful.

Alan.

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