Latest revision as of 13:26, 23 September 2010

Design

The Linux design picks up many aspects from the ideas proposed for Windows. With specific emphasis on how to integrate with various system themes.

TitleBar Gradient - Use unified titlebar when native theme allows.
Active Tab + Toolbar Backgrounds - Overlay white highlight gradient, edge effects, borders and shadows on window color.
Inactive Tab - Use window color at -20% luminance and saturation and 90% opacity. Alternatively get gtk theme inactive tab color at 90% opacity. Overlay gradients, edge effects, borders and shadows.
Toolbar Buttons - Create adaptive toolbar buttons with translucent shades to fit any theme. Select icon set based on current theme or use SVG icons with base color using “Highlight” color.
Toolbar Fields - Use native fields for location and search bars.

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 # '''Toolbar Buttons''' - Create adaptive toolbar buttons with translucent shades to fit any theme. Select icon set based on current theme or use SVG icons with base color using “Highlight” color.
 # '''Toolbar Fields''' - Use native fields for location and search bars.
-= KDE =
-While Firefox is a GTK+ based application, it’s high customizability together with the new possibilities of CSS 3 gradients and shadows gives us the opportunity to recreate KDE’s default theme “Oxygen” pixel perfect (or at least near pixel perfect) using these styling methods.
-In this way, by avoiding the use of images, a pure css clone of this theme can be easily generated out of the theme configuration files. (While “easily” means “easily from that moment on, when we have a finished copy of the theme using the default color scheme”)
-Supporting KDE should be the second highest priority after ambiance/radiance, because KDE is considered one of the two “big” DEs alongside Gnome, which can be interpreted as “It’s standard theme is on most linux desktops alongside GNOME’s”.
 = Mockups =
 * [[Firefox/4.0 Linux Theme Mockups]]