-- Nicholas Blachford, on Sun, 8 Nov 2009 21:43:35 +0000: > 2: The second image makes the windows cleaner, removing the outer > boarder and generally making it cleaner. Having a single-pixel border may work. We don't want a text window bleed into a bright background picture. What do you think of this: http://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/haiku_ui_mockup I always liked that (besides the to dark tab). Narrower window borders, square window, slightly round tab (though I'd still prefer the left side cornered, as mentioned in my other mail). I also like the blue selection colour in the menu. I also suspect that the warm brownish background picture together with the clear gray, blue and yellow makes this mockup so visually pleasing. :) > 3: The third image adds shadows, these are quite big and diffuse, > this > saves you having to work out where shadows go where there are > multiple > layers since you can't see them clearly enough to see if they are > wrong or not. Again look at the shadows of the above mockup. IMO there could be a very subtle, very narrow shadow directly from above for every window, i.e. more like a darkening glow. Only the active window could have an additional little icon-guideline-conform shadow, lifting it up ever so slightly. subtlety is key. Are real shadows even feasible without a 3d-compositing GUI? > 4: The texture was added because flat grey windows still look flat. I'm no fan of textures, but as long as its customizable it's OK. Regards, Humdinger -- --=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=- Deutsche Haiku News @ http://www.haiku-gazette.de