On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:23:54 +0100 "R. W. Reese" <[email protected]> said:
> I missed the announcement of extra.enlightenment.org, but I am glad to > see a central place for themes. I hope that many of the themers like > Agust (whose themes I use almost daily) and Duma will be stepping > forward with updated themes. > > However, I have a suggestion for themes: providing a way to allow > users/distros to "brand" them (add a logo and/or distro name), something > that has commonly been done. In the past some of this branding has been > done by adding a logo to the background, frequently one that is not > scaled. There are two problems with this approach: > > 1. With the restoration of the old pager that captures the background, > that approach does not work well if the logo is not scaled. This means > that either users revert to the plain pager or themers incorporate the > distro logo into the name. > > 2. To add a distro name or logo to a theme means decompiling, modifying > and recompiling the theme. > > Possible feature request: a way for end users/distros to add the "brand" > to the theme the way wallpapers can be changed. I can envision two > possible components here: name and/or logo to appear over the background > and a logo that can changed for the start button on a shelf. > > I've just browsed open tasks in Phabricator and see no similar feature > request open. I would be interested in feedback here before entering > one. really... "stop using the background" is my suggestion. it's too blatant. it looks cheesy. just don't. my suggestions are: 1. use the about theme dialog to brand all you like. that is a DEDICATED branding location. make it as fancy and spectacular as you like 2. be more subtle like maybe replace the "start gadget" arrow with something in branding colors and/or imagery. 3. there's the lock screen group too... 4. there is a "comp screen" group that is used to fade in and out on suspend/resume, shutdown/reboot etc. ... we actually need to fix this up on login. the init splash i think needs to be killed off as its no longer a separate process so we cant "run it while e process starts up" as to display it needs e to be working normally... so i was going to to fix up "e startup" so basically it keeps everything black until mainloop is working SMOOTHLY then begins a fade-in of all the screens etc. but this "e just started" signal and fading in from black is another location... 3. you have lots of places to "brand" too like titlebars, menus, shelves.. but i'd say its all pretty cheesy. yeah. i know. we're getting into subjective land here and artistic taste but i have to say the blatant "let me slap a huge arch/gentoo/susue/redhat/etc. logo in the wallpaper" really always came off as super cheesy. learn to brand more subtly. that's my take :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
