How to get to the Xfce 4.4 website

Nick Schermer nickschermer at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 17:10:11 CET 2006


On 1/12/06, Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/12/06, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 1/12/06, Fabian Nowak <timystery at arcor.de> wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, den 11.01.2006, 14:03 -0800 schrieb Brian J. Tarricone:
> > >
> > > > Also, is it not a fluid layout?  It's framed fairly well on my
> 1024x768
> > > > laptop screen, but I imagine there will be a lot of white space to
> the
> > > > left and right if in a maximised window on my 1600x1200 desktop
> screen
> > > > at home.
> > > >
> > > > Regardless, this is just picky technical stuff.  Aesthetically, it's
> > > > very nice.
> > > >
> > > >       -b
> > >
> > > at 1600x1200, nearly maximised opera window with favorites at the left
> > > which take about 250px and the xfce iconbox at the right, which takes
> > > about 50px, it looks quite ok with about 250px of white space at each
> > > side.
> > >
> > > but i really ask myself who works with a fullscreen browser at this
> > > resolution... (i have a browser area of approximately 800x700
> normally.)
> >
> > Everyone has it's own taste...
>
> I normally run my browser in full screen on its own workspace. The
> browser area is approximately 1660x950.
>
> > > another annoying thing is that no homepage has smoothly readable font
> > > sizes - those used ain't smoothly readable either. you can read it
> with
> > > some comfortable distance from your screen only after pressing '+' 2-4
> > > times, which means at 120-140% zoom.
> >
> > The fonts sizes are a  bit weird at the moment (Body font size is 69%)
> So
> > + 2 times is around 100%. I'll change this later, so all em's are 100%,
> so
> > (i hope) this problem is fixed.
> >
> > > the blue at the top is much too heavy to be consistent with the notion
> > > "lightweight" IMO.
> > http://mitglied.lycos.de/timshome/images/xfce_hp.jpg
> > > would be more "lightweight".
> >
> > More people said this, so I'll make it a bit lighter.
> >
>
> I think it actually became a bit too light now. You can barely see
> that it is a gradient.
>
> I actually liked the old heavy blue, as it gave a sense of power. I
> like dark blue in general, though, so it might just be me :)


Personally i like the darker one better my self. Going to change it a bit
with the colors between these 2 version.

Other than that, I think that you've done an excellent job.


And i'm not even finished :P.

Regards, Alexander Toresson
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Gr. Nick
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