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Friend, after only three posts, you chose a truly nonsensical thread in which to contributer.

The XaRT interface hasn't been discussed here for four years.

Read before you post, eh?

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You're welcome, Grace and I have a suggestion for all, to help finish the look of the UI and all that:

Keep background elements neutral in color. If you insist on a gradient, make the subtle...

Larry: psssst. I attached one in post #130 :).

Took me about 12 minutes to do, based on Mind's Eye, my work, your work, and some scraps we have up on this thread.

Done.

Work on some card...

The logo is attached here as vector art, and I used one of Larry's color schemes. Thanks to Mind's Eye for the treatment of the "art" portion, and I believe the subordinate text is Adobe Myriad...

Good, thanks Grace.

Please bear in mind that when you make a presentation, you need to cater to those of us who are ignorant about coding, and also what a "finished version" looks like.

When I...

I love the layout and the graphics.

I hate, hate, hate the super-intense shade of blue you have currently.

There's a zillion shades of blue you can use in the gradient. Why not something...

@Eric—

If Grace and Steve decide to keep the icon file out in the open (as it were, not coded into the exe as a resource), then a transparent background could be one of several sizes and...

I like the embellishments, Rik. I'll bet the general consensus is that it's very handsome looking and might even reproduce at small sizes.

My question would be: is the appearance of the checkmark...

Hmmm. I'd heard that an elephant was a horse designed by a committee. Given the current state of the US government, the elephant was probably designed by a sub-committee.

@ Eric—Ah, there's the...

That's why the coders and the artsy people should work together, as we are now.

:)

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@Steve,

There are two things I'd like to mention from an art and a usability thing, three, actually:

The example you posted is indeed dark. In fact, it's too dark. And changing colors to...

Hi Eric and welcome to the discussion.

I for one am against compromising a good UI design just because the programmers have opted for a default library of common controls to avoid using bitmaps.
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@Frances—

We (and you) really need to ask ourselves how the UI might scale for foreign languages (if any) and just for the number of features we'll finally have. For these reasons, I'm not sure...

Okay, I'm sure that 100% of this isn't going to please 100% of all members, but you gotta give me credit for 1.) listening to everyone's ideas, and 2.) for making something I myself am pleased with...

I'm halfway done, I think, with a prototype that might please all, or displease the least number of members!

It's slick and relaxing in colours.

Be back with it 2pm EDST,

Gary

@Grace—

The blue that's used is DEATH!

Now, I don't disagree with your preference as you linked.

I also know that Rik, I, and I'm sure Big Frank and others can draw this style of buttons and...

See, in a combination such as Xart's UI layout, I think these are a very handsome combination. I think I have something similar for active motherboard monitoring, it's an ASUS, too.

Would you...

Woah!

Serious contrast problem, Steven!

My 2 ¢ on a color theme and scheme:

As far as "dark" UIs go, there has been only one, perhaps two that have struck me as functional, not too much or too little contrast, and actually sort of...

Grace, I was thinking that the About page might contain a tribute to Bill?

Can you think of a more appropriate screen?

Thanks!

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I humbly propose, that in the interest of cooperation and to make more signal than noise—there's nothing wrong with posting design ideas on this thread...I thought this is what this area is for.
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If all this does is serve as a reinforcement that the tg community is behind the project and behind Grace, I feel it was an effort worth expending.

Yes, Pete is dead-on: skinning is trivial...

This is just a different "treatment" of Barbara's design concept: a blueprint motif.

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And if you really, really, really, really HATE blue, I guess on dark grey it could look like a...

I don't think rich, photorealistic renderings will ever go completely out of style, mindseye, but as far as UIs go, "skeuomorphic" is a trend, not a movement, and it's being supplanted by "the flat...

mindseye, your example image looks a lot like the work of Layne Karkruff, a Macintosh UI designer whose work I've loved for years if not a decade.

Download some of his wallpaper and see if it...