On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:31:29PM -0700, mk wrote: > >Think of this: why matadors use red (orange is basically red a bit of yellow >added) to excite bulls? Why red is used to mark whorehouses? These colors are >extremely disturbing psychologically speaking.
As a piece of trivia, the Helsinki metro is a horrible orange; http://www.raitio.org/metro/kalusto/m100/m100_kuvat/109_ik.jpg http://areena.yle.fi/static/mk/images/previews/ed/ed1d4916505e4c66a708711296167e2e/47945_preview_620.jpg The rationale I heard is that when they were originally building it in the early 80s, they chose that color because they were afraid hobos and others would start hanging out in the metros. This still happens in the winters, but the color is meant to deter people. I do use a red-ish theme, can't remember which one, at home but on my laptop I only changed the background image on the default theme and it's really cool that gtk2 apps now look the same. Wish I hadn't put up with the default gtk looks for years and now it looks like I have to do that with gtk3 :/ When I was on Window Maker I made some themes of my own. Looking at these screenshots makes me feel like a kid again :D But I do wish making themes for Enlightenment was as easy as making wmaker themes back then. A couple of band-related themes: http://mjt.nysv.org/screenshots/entil-ajattara_theme.jpg http://mjt.nysv.org/screenshots/entil-kotiteollisuus_theme.jpg http://mjt.nysv.org/screenshots/entil-symphonyx_theme.jpg which turned out annoying to be actually used, but good finger practice. I used this one for the longest time http://mjt.nysv.org/screenshots/entil-alsashot.png The one I ended up finally using was this because the image is so cool. Guess it was a big hit at the time ;) http://mjt.nysv.org/screenshots/unleash_tacgnol_theme_proto.png But the story to be learned is that even a clueless kid like I-back-then could tell what works and what doesn't. Most themes for wmaker were crap - as were most for enlightenment. Noticing this should be an encouragement for theme makers to try a bit harder and I for one will read the links on color theory here, because it's all pretty new to me :D Hopefully get a theme or two ported that I used to use to enlightenment some day, but even better :) Is this still current? http://www.bodhilinux.com/e17guide/e17guideEN/creating_themes.html Wasn't there a GUI app for editing Edje files? Googling comes up kinda empty, though there seem to be references to something... Thanks! -- mjt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
