Re: [libreoffice-design] Play with the Windows look

Hi Astron,

On 2012-06-06 at 19:40 +0200, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote:

> I've taken a look at it, and right now, it seems, the menu text is
> transparent ... but I believe that's trivial to fix.

Unfortunately not that trivial :-(  Needs a hack, but luckily, it is
documented, so I know what to do.

> However, it is really bad timing now since a few days ago it turned
> out that MS will be abandoning Aero with Windows 8 [4]. They even go
> so far as to call it looking "dated and cheesy" (click through to the
> MSDN source).

No problem, we can introduce one more theme for Windows 8, that's not a
big issue to present something else on various Windows versions [at
least so far it hasn't been ;-)]

> Now, how about we just use some gradient-from-the-bottom look, like MS
> Office does:
> http://cdn.blogsdna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Power-Word-Office-2010-Addin.jpg
> ?
> (Trying to imitate it, I noticed it's actually surprisingly hard to do, though.)

Done now:

http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~kendy/design-list/toolbar-gradient.png

Please see the other mail with approval request :-)

Thank you,
Kendy


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