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Re: [MiNT] Fugly gradient (Was: Re: hairlines)




On Nov 5, 2011 4:32 PM, "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de> wrote:
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> Am 05.11.2011, 16:08 Uhr, schrieb Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>:
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>> On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 11:22 +0100, Lars Schmidbauer wrote:
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>>> same here, see attached snapshot of ZView/preferences.
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>> This is off-topic, and I'm really sorry, but this is perhaps the ugliest
>> thing I've ever seen. Do we really want to distribute this gradient with
>> XaAES?
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> Lars likes it, I like it, which makes already 30% of all XaAES-users, so I'd say: yes.
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> But I agree it looks poor if mixed with grey from a user-app like the one from the zview-screenshot. But it is not the gradient but the grey that sucks ;)

No really, the gradient looks completely awful. Sorry, but try asking people who actually do design for a living, and not code. Or even take a look at other operating systems - it can't hurt to take some inspiration.

-Kåre