[sldev] Comments on Harold's "Retro Dazzle" theme

[Harold Brown]

If you can tell me which artwork package those menu bar icons were in.
 I can probably do something for it.

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Argent Stonecutter
<secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2008-04-10, at 10:55, Harold Brown wrote:
> > Yes I hate the Dazzle UI, Yes I posted my dislike when it was first
> > shown, and when the Firstlook Came out.  But the difference is I
> > didn't bitch about how LL didn't listen to me.  I made a Retro Dazzle
> > skin with the classic UI colors and darker Dazzle interface images.
> >
>
> It's nice, I like it. It makes Dazzle usable.
>
> I would like to suggest going back to the old map icons, and even back two
> generations in the menu bar icons. There's an ongoing undercurrent of
> dissent over Apple's decision to encapsulate the buttons in Apple Mail on
> Tiger, and there's a couple of applications available to revert to the old
> un-encapsulated icons. The reason is that encapsulating might look better,
> superficially, but it makes the icons harder to use and recognize by
> reducing the contrast between them.
>
> The encapsulated map icons have similar problems.
>
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