so light theme can look similar to the dark one but also to the one provided in e17 (elive 3.0), so that users can find a familiarity with it
about round icons (buttons I assume we are talking about), I know that e16 doesn't smoothly resize the pixel borders, but maybe this can be done by having the correctly-looking rounded and well-resized buttons inside a square, this means: do not creating the button as a circle but as a square (with the circle inside. Not sure if im explaining correctly, but let's say the titlebar is white, and the button is red, so it should be something like [ O ] instead of O - where the square is white and the circle is red -
all other points sounds good , btw use "Elive_Light" (with the _ char) for the dir name, to keep consistency (aparently spaces are not allowed for it)
I personally think that, because they are fairly small that the (normal) squares as buttons are pretty hard to discern when they're not highlighted. Only the border is not enough.
I know they're there so I pass over my mouse but otherwise I'd miss them.
Maybe they should have a different (lighter?) grey then the surroundings?
A strange gripe I have is also that on every e16 regeneration, my "pager" gets smaller and smaller until it disappears.
It's easily repaired but I cannot figure out what is causing this
ah well, you need to install the package e16-theme-elivedark
I assume you used elive-skel, otherwise there's no way to update a user's made conf
exactly, this is more or less the idea, I have tried to increase the border-colors (white) on them but doesn't looks so nice
lol
you have very strange e16 issues
there should be not related
I may suggest to upgrade entirely your .e16 dir (elive-skel), assuming you have some scripts flying here, or use hte "restart desktop confs"
maybe you have a second screen connected?
hum, just verified that it works, I have noticed that sometimes e16 seems to show a similar behaviour, maybe caused by the composite layer, tell me if you have the issue again (on this widget)
I discovered it was a reboot thingy. The machines I rebooted did get Elive_Dark ..... my working machine normally never reboots.
But one would expect the normal upgrade methods to work without rebooting ...... especially on "rolling release".
I know, probaly because of all the theme testing.
Sometimes I forget to clear cache or need a full system restart to get back to standard behaviour....and even then no guarantees.
But this pager "wandering" around is something I see on all my machines, includng those with default settings.
Somehow after a few restarts it starts to lower itself into the cairo-dock restricted space and cannot be clicked anymore before moving away the dock.
yeah, elive-upgrader is only run when the desktop starts
this should be improved (from a cronjob instead) but... actually is set this way (auto-start application)
its more like a future feature (integration)
about the pager, if is an e16 bug it should be reported, but first:
being able to reproduce the issue
make sure that nothing (as a reason) interferes making it to happen
I even just remove the whole .e16 directory or create a wholy new user to startup a new desktop due to unexpected e16 stuff. Surprising things sometimes come out....like I said: No guarantees !
No, it doesn't look good but a slightly different grey tint as the rest of the border might do the trick.
Looking at all the graphics in "artwork" it looks like not all graphics actually show up as they should. Where have I seen that before ??
I think e16 is coming along reasonably nice (although the pager still irks me) .... if we get light and dark properly aligned an anouncement with a proud e16 should be possible IMO.
I mean, no other distro even allows installing e16 .... only "enlightenment" with e17 as lowest denominator.
I will send tomorrow the notifications of the new beta releases, then a few days later a massive announcement about amd64 availability (like a newsletter / update about development, etc)
but of course it needs to be integrated first on the system
So there's a lot to do this week.
Me, my program is already full for the next week (actually too full) so I'll see how much sleep deprivation is needed to get somewhere.
but the hilighted buttons doesn't fits very well (also it has a white bg on it)
you can try with a simply "painted" square box, probably with a "light" tone (lightning i mean, like a LED is hilighted), or to make it even looking better you can try to copy the squared image and put with a brush a hilighted color (yes, with a few pixels outside the box, like it is illuminating)
Yeah, that would be pretty cool for the Dark theme.
Still playing with different concepts for Light but trying to keep that in the round sphere (to keep a slight similarity with elive stable).
Going darker i.e receding into shadows as a contrast to Dark theme maybe.
Only the "normal" ones not the "active". Wrong grey percentage there, should be 30%, not 20% that's for "active"
