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As a matter of fact, this is already somewhat implemented in Hardy RC1. You see, the human themes that are installed, human, human-clearlooks, and human-murrine allow for the customization of colors the same way in which you could customize themes such as clearlooks in previous versions.
My theme: http://broomfighter.googlepages.com/Screenshot.png
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px33
wrote on the 20 Apr 08 at 22:09
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Well, the Human theme from 8.04 isn't the most customizable one. You can't change color of checkboxes.
And my idea is to allow user to select proper theme from Appearance window (just add "Human blue", "Human green"... themes), not to set colors on his own.
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Moredhas
wrote on the 21 Apr 08 at 04:07
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Usually, after I install Ubuntu, I go and find a few different coloured Human icon sets. I have a blue one, a red and a green installed. I think it would be nice to be able to choose the colours of icons with a colour selector, but that might mean changes to Gnome... It would probably cut down on wasted storage though. Instead of having a blue set, a green set, an orange set, and so forth, all for the one icon style, you could have one set with variable colour. Obviously, you wouldn't want all icons to change colour all over. They should have a mask colour, and that colour be the one that changes. That way, your grey icons with blue markings can stay grey and get red markings.
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Absolutely!
I remember this was the first improvement I had ever wanted from Ubuntu. In fact, it was the first thing I ever proposed in the IdeaPool.
Big +1
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wearzeep
wrote on the 21 Apr 08 at 14:17
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Yes!
Especially the font, it's waay too big in the original install.
I seriously thought that there was something strange with my resolution, and i have later learned that alot of other people usually thinks this too.
The fonts should be small, and still easy to read.
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Remco
wrote on the 21 Apr 08 at 17:01
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The keyword for scaling is DPI. On a low-res screen, you need a low DPI, on a high-res screen (like laptops) you need a high DPI. That way, fonts and buttons are physically equally-sized for all kinds of monitors with different pixel-sizes.
The DPI is 96 by default, which is only a good choice for current 17" 1280x1024 desktop monitors. 17" 1920x1200 monitors, which you can find in laptops, need a much higher DPI. Older monitors need a lower DPI.
By the way, smaller widgets might look cool, but the smaller something is, the harder it is to click on it. Most people don't change the DPI-settings, and complain that the text is way too small. They actually lower their resolutions (which is really ugly) to be able to read what's on screen.
We really need a way to detect the physical size of the monitor. In the future it will only get worse.
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