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Re: Strange
by hmmm on Wednesday 23/Apr/2008, @01:08
And think that a thin rule visible only when the window is active and which could have glowed in the user-selected colour could have done the trick (ŕ-la modern system).

I have ambivalent feelings about that one, on the one hand, the oxygen artists are right in that their version is more beautiful; on the other hand, Lunák is right in that his version is more practical.

Oh, well, some genius will come up with an optimal solution, I guess. At some point.

Something like the attached screenshot, but less ugly.
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Re: Strange
by hmmm on Wednesday 23/Apr/2008, @01:09
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Re: Strange
by nuno pinheiro on Wednesday 23/Apr/2008, @02:12
I would be ok with a lot of changes, as long as the (one slab thing) would not be corropted. But this was about a patch to make the windeco be colorable that would totaly brake that. That is an ok feature but iw not oxygen, its brakes the frist guidlines in oxygen theme.
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  • Re: Strange
    by Morty on Wednesday 23/Apr/2008, @02:26
    There is no need to make the whole windowdecoration colorable, the titlebar is enough. You can make it a nice gradient from the selected colour to the windowcolour, making a smooth transition. This would both be efficent and solve two major bugs, and it would look nice.

    If the oxygen guidelines will not allow this, it's obviously flawed and need to be fixed. When the spesification don't work in the real world, you have to change it. It's a no brainer, real world always thrumps spesifications and visions.
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    • Re: Strange
      by nuno pinheiro on Wednesday 23/Apr/2008, @02:49
      Show me a mock that visuialy works and you have a believer :)
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      • Re: Strange
        by Sebastian on Wednesday 23/Apr/2008, @06:47
        Just take a glance at Enlightenment e17 . There is a wonderful animation, i.e. a bright flash appearing from time to time on the currently active title bar. This is just NEAT! Means: I'd love to see this in KDE as well...
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      • Re: Strange
        by Morty on Wednesday 23/Apr/2008, @12:17
        The effect I'm thinking about is like when you dip the edge of a paper in paint, and it soaks up the paint.

        I have minimal skill with drawing tools, so this only shows the principle of how it will look with enabled titlebarcolour, obviously it needs tweaking.
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      • Re: Strange
        by David B. on Wednesday 23/Apr/2008, @18:26
        What about a glow similar to the focus glow of buttons and other areas in the Oxygen theme? It could fit in well, since similar glows are used throughout Oxygen.
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  • An idea of which i don't know the consequences
    by Ian on Wednesday 23/Apr/2008, @07:09
    When a window goes to the background, how about removing 50% of the colour - similar effect when you log out and the desktop goes black and white.
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    • Re: An idea of which i don't know the consequences
      by nuno pinheiro on Wednesday 23/Apr/2008, @07:20
      this is really the type of difrence i would like to see, but its seeams its not very good and couses fliquering.
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      • Re: An idea of which i don't know the consequences
        by NabLa on Thursday 24/Apr/2008, @01:33
        Mm I think is a great idea though. Perhaps this is one for the developers to stop moaning about and fix the flickering? :)
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    • Re: An idea of which i don't know the consequences
      by Flitcraft on Wednesday 23/Apr/2008, @09:08
      There's the composite effect "darken inactive" that does pretty much the same. 20% works very well for me, and I find it ergonomically and aesthetically more pleasing than a coloured titlebar.
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      • Re: An idea of which i don't know the consequences
        by NabLa on Thursday 24/Apr/2008, @02:33
        Yeah, but composite ain't enabled by default, and Oxygen needs to be able to work without it.

        Besides, composite performance at the moment is not optimal
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