[FusionWeb] Theme, continued

[Sam Spilsbury]

On 10/12/07, RYX <ryx at ryxperience.com> wrote:
> Maybe it is just a coincidence, but all examples you mention are full
> featured "desktops"/distros, so it is not uncommon that they use tango
> colors for their layout. The question then is: do we seriously see
> ourselves as a "desktop"-project?
>
> It's not just because those colours are intended for the desktop
> (especially for icons on the desktop), they are used fairly too often by
> many other projects/apps and are nothing special anymore.
>
> My intent was to find a few significant elements in our "overall
> styling" that are not simply "stolen" and/or the same as everyone else
> has. The colours would be a good start because there are about 16.7
> million colours _more_ out there than just those 20 from the tango
> palette ... :)

Yeah. That was sort-of my point. I'm just saying that the colors from
the tango pallete look nice and that we shoudn't be limiting ourselves
by deliberately not choosing them :), although after reading the rest of
the message it is now clear that that is not really the main point.

>
> But nothing is stopping us from keeping the colours as they are now (but
> don't complain later :)). Colours, as well as buttons, are just to
> heavily influenced by the personal taste and thus may cause us to always
> hang on discussing these tiny details instead of moving forward.
>
> So I don't expect anyone to propose a detailed colour-palette with RGB
> values. I just want to hear some proposals for basic colours (like red,
> green, blue, yellow) for the different areas, because it'd be nice if
> the colours could have some deeper symbolic meaning.

I agree fully. As long as the colors are vibrant and aesthetic, then I am in.
(I don't think any webpage would make sense with dull colors to be honest :) )

>
> Example: I made the wiki/help section green because green is associated
> with "hope" and is also very refreshing. This seems to make it ideal for
> people who impatiently need to have a problem solved.
>
> Other example: The forum is currently plum-coloured because I mixed
> compiz-blue with beryl-red.  It's the place mostly affected by "the
> fusion" so I thought it'd be nice to express that through the colors.
>
> Or: The extensions-section could be orange because it is what could be
> described as the "fusion"-aspect of compiz fusion - and fusions are
> usually light orange (at least from what I heard, never seen one
> "live").

Good :)

>
> Hopefully it is now more clear what I meant :D ...

Yes exactly :). I was also hoping that we might be able to get a
slightly more whiter version of the page. Considering the visual
elements at the moment are quite colorful on the black background, I'm
sure it wouldn't be too hard to add a white variation of the page too
(Maybe just changing the background to white and adding some shadows.

Also, to really test the theme in action, maybe we should set up a
temporary vB and MoinMoin app on ryxperience to see if we can
intergrate the themes all gooey-centric :)

Cheers,

Sam
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