<IANAA caveat> I'm a little concerend by the visually smaller window buttons. I think it's likely that people will think they have to click inside the small button. Which makes it a harder, more precision operation. The new icons and color schemes look nice.

I'm a little concerend by the visually smaller window buttons. I think it's likely that people will think they have to click inside the small button. Which makes it a harder, more precision operation.

The new icons and color schemes look nice.

Hey all, I have recently posted a few new screenshots which demonstrate some of the latest updates in the "redhat-artwork" package. You can see screenshots at the following URLs: http://people.redhat.com/glesage/screenshots/bluecurve_nextgen-preview.png http://people.redhat.com/glesage/screenshots/bluecurve_nextgen-preview-sl... http://people.redhat.com/glesage/screenshots/bluecurve_nextgen-preview-pu... http://people.redhat.com/glesage/screenshots/bluecurve_nextgen-preview-or... http://people.redhat.com/glesage/screenshots/bluecurve_nextgen-preview-gr... http://people.redhat.com/glesage/screenshots/bluecurve_nextgen-preview-gn... You can get the most recent version in Rawhide or out of CVS. As of this writing, the current Rawhide URL for redhat-artwork is: http://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/redha... Brief overview of a few changes since the Red Hat Linux 9 time frame: Icons ===== * Reworked the entire icon set, now generated by XML configs and icon sheets * Multiple icon sizes are now available (not fully complete yet) * All icons are now pixel optimized per size * New mimetype file icons * Updated stock icons * Initial support for KDE stock icons (actions) now available (size issues need to be sorted out, so it's not working quite yet) * Gnome panel icons are 36x36 instead of 24x24 (for the time being, at least...) Window Decorations ================ * Window frame decorations have a new style * Metacity theme implemented * KDE's KWin theme needs to be updated still Widgets ======= * A few tweaks for the GTK+ theme configuration. * Additional color schemes are now available for Bluecurve Access these additional themes by selecting "desktop menu > preferences > theme" from the panel, hitting the "Details..." button, and in the "Controls" tab, select "Bluecurve-Slate" or some other Bluecurve color scheme. Of course, there is still work to be done. Please file bugs, help out, and/or provide feedback on the package. Thanks, Garrett

I did update my RHEL 3 Beta WS with the redhat-artwork package from rawhide. I don't seem to be able to find where I can tell to the "foot" menu to show small icons... Along with that, I notice that there are some icons which are somehow blurred, while others have a good looking sharpness. Has anyone noticed these differences?

Edit /usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc and change the top line: gtk-icon-sizes = "panel-menu=36,36" to gtk-icon-sizes = "panel-menu=24,24" You will probably have to restart the panel after making the change, however. Hitting Alt-F2 and typing "killall gnome-panel" should do the trick.

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:40:36 -0400, you wrote: >I figured that it made sense to have the larger icons for the time being >so that some of the icon sizing stuff might get sorted out. I will >probably switch back the icons to the smaller size regardless -- it >depends on what makes the most sense, though. > > Well I also vote for the smaller size icons after my brief try of the new theme today.

However to me the biggest problem (and why I have gone back to the original version) is the removal of the visual hints of the boundaries of the in use window. With the original version there appears to be some 3D hinting as well as the blue corners at the bottom. Thus I can quickly see the limits of the current window on a screen that as 10 or so applications open. The new version I found that the various applications blended together and I had to stop and think which part of the screen belonged to the app I was using and which was from an app that was behind the current one.