Proposal for a New Default GTK+/Gnome GUI
Source: OS News
A few months ago I was designing the UI of Sequel OS. I am not part of the project anymore, but I kept developing the UI in my free time, just when I was feeling a bit creative. Yesterday, in my Gnome 2 article I mentioned that it would be nice if Gnome/GTK+ adopt a new default theme. So, here is my proposal for the project, mockups seen for the first time in public... Update: One more mockup I just (quickly) created just to show to some readers that the theme is clean when used in a normal app.
Sequel was a "sequel of BeOS", so you will see a few widgets that look similar to Zeta/Dano design (e.g. radio button, checkbox), but I have taken them further and enhanced them.
If anyone feel like coding it, by all means start creating a theme that looks like it, but please alert me that you do, so we stay in touch, as I can help and feed the development with more states and widgets that are not seen in the only two mockups I include here today.
Before starting coding away (well, if you like it ;), please bear in mind:
This are _not_ final mockups. I am sure they can look better if more work can get into them
It requires Toolkit changes (GTK/QT/whatever), it is NOT a matter of writing a simple theme for it. To get that look and feel, their shapes, sub-widgets etc, you will need toolkit support. If people from GTK+ team read this, please consider at least allowing bolding of headers, tabs, buttons and menus.
ALL toolkits have on-mouse-over states. All of them. Including the radio buttons, checkboxes, scrollbars, even drop-down boxes. It is not as simple as implementing the two basic states (enabled, disabled) as the idea was to have on-mouse-over state, and even animation (for radio and checkboxes when they get clicked)!!
The "ZSnake" effect (the selected menu that continues to flow on the menu and on the drop-down menu) should be flicker-free. Dano/Zeta OS does this trick too, but their implementation ain't flicker-free.
Be careful of the colors involved! The background color of the application menu has a different color than the body. Same goes for the Tab views.
