[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7127) [FS] Screen design

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7127 >

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, [UTF-8] Horn Gábor wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7127 >
>
> Hi!
>
> I like the layout/sctructure of the dialogs, but i think/agree that the
> graphics elements should be improved a bit. I think a good place to look
> for nice ideas is http://www.kde-look.org/ . Select one of the themes on
> the left panel, sort it as "highest rated' and u get the most populars,
> like:
>
> http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=7559 or
> http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=6304 or
> http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9987
>
> And these themes are GPL. Or maybe make it follow the gtk theme instead
> of an own one? As i read there's also a HIG thing for gnome2, which is a
> collection of recommendations on how to design good gui-s (where to
> place the components etc). More info about it:
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/ .

The last one looks best. But it still is a bit drab to my tastes. Too
gray. The others use really ugly fonts. I especially dislike the 2nd
which looks clunky.



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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa