Pandora Themeing

[Sphinxter]

Regardless of who does what for the interface, this article is a good read.



Anything that likes or promotes EMACS as, "good", needs to be severely questioned.

 

[sindbad]

Regardless of who does what for the interface, this article is a good read.



Anything that likes or promotes EMACS as, "good", needs to be severely questioned.

Just read the whole thing

 

[chad78]

Yes, OSS should be humane.

But I like borrowing from things that work. It's like getting the user studies without having to pay for them or wait for them.

Make it look like an iPhone.

The LCARS theme, (from the OP), has been done quite well on the Nokia N-Series - see video here - here be their website

But, as someone who has used said theme, and has since removed it - please make the sounds optional. I don't want my Pandora to make this noise every time I open it.

 

[Vorporeal]

^ That would infuriate me. Turning on Pandora for the first time will be a big moment, one which I will not want interrupted by having to choose a theme. Show me the money first, sell me a coin purse later.

All you need to do then is have a screen pop up saying

"Your Pandora has not yet been configured/personalised. Would you like to do this now"

With a yes no button and a checkbox saying "Never ask me this again, I can access this wizard from the setup menu"

As for deafault looks. I vote bubble icons!


Ah yes, Gentoo's bubble icons...

 

[Sphinxter]

^ That would infuriate me. Turning on Pandora for the first time will be a big moment, one which I will not want interrupted by having to choose a theme. Show me the money first, sell me a coin purse later.

All you need to do then is have a screen pop up saying

"Your Pandora has not yet been configured/personalised. Would you like to do this now"

With a yes no button and a checkbox saying "Never ask me this again, I can access this wizard from the setup menu"

As for deafault looks. I vote bubble icons!


Ah yes, Gentoo's bubble icons...


You must mean kde or gnome, I run gentoo every day, never seen any bubble icons before or seen any icon set associated with the distribution.

Regardless of who does what for the interface, this article is a good read.



Anything that likes or promotes EMACS as, "good", needs to be severely questioned.

Just read the whole thing


Did, makes a few real obvious good points and then pollutes it by drifting off topic with some rather shitty examples.

 

[Vorporeal]

^ That would infuriate me. Turning on Pandora for the first time will be a big moment, one which I will not want interrupted by having to choose a theme. Show me the money first, sell me a coin purse later.

All you need to do then is have a screen pop up saying

"Your Pandora has not yet been configured/personalised. Would you like to do this now"

With a yes no button and a checkbox saying "Never ask me this again, I can access this wizard from the setup menu"

As for deafault looks. I vote bubble icons!


Ah yes, Gentoo's bubble icons...


You must mean kde or gnome, I run gentoo every day, never seen any bubble icons before or seen any icon set associated with the distribution.

They're not distributed with Gentoo, but a bunch of those icons were on their website and became the Official (?) Gentoo Icons.

I couldn't find the page on gentoo.org when I checked, but this page agrees with me: http://www.ionbox.org/icons.html

 

[Pleng]

I couldn't find the page on gentoo.org when I checked, but this page agrees with me: http://www.ionbox.org/icons.html




Lovely, didnt realise they already had bubbleicons for linux! So I should be able to use them with Pandora then? Sweetcakes!

 

[rokdcasbah]

As for deafault looks. I vote bubble icons!



many will say that icons that are all the same shape are harder to pick out visually. i tend to agree with that. those bubble icons are all the same color, too, for the most part. i think it defeats the purpose to have the icons look so similar.