Archive for November, 2007

Dark Themes

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

I’m excited to see interest in dark widget themes. I’ve grown to love a dark environment as I usually work on graphics or photos and dark neutral gray just makes the content come alive.

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Darkilouche theme.

It has been suggested to ship some dark themes in gnome-themes in the past, but I would go a step further and propose using a dark(ish) theme by default in stock GNOME. Having a dark theme would make perfect sense for vanilla GNOME. It would expose theming issues which are easily ignored when all you run is a light background. It will not really affect huge number of end users as most distros ship their custom themes though. But the core developers will have it up their faces :)

No other desktop I know is using dark widgets, it would make up for a distinct GNOME visual style to an extent the nature-theme we discussed at Guadec ever would. Let the distros be held down by conservatism, let’s be bold and go dark!

Not Feeling Lucky

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Dear Lazyweb,
is it really impossible to reference a cell from an external spreadsheet in google spreadsheet?

Free (beer) Fonts

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Not commonly useful font, but what a name. There’s an amazing number of slick curved typefaces on the tubes.