[CentOS-docs] modern-CentOS-1.7-29

Tue Jan 15 20:08:54 UTC 2008
Mats Karlsson <mats.o.karlsson at gmail.com>

Alain Reguera Delgado wrote:
> On 1/14/08, Mats Karlsson <mats.o.karlsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some thoughts:
>>
>> 1. Should the squares on the border have a different size compared to
>> the "High contrast Message" or should it be the same size?

http://www.ugg-lan.com/images/test2.png

Here you can see that the squares has a different size on the border (1) 
and the background (2) or is it an optical illusion?

>> 2. Shouldn't there be squares in the background on the "Low contrast
>> Message" also, or do they become invisible then?

Nice and I like the new Medium choice, I hope thats a permanent one or 
was it just to visualize the "Light" version.

>> 3. "High contrast Message", what about adding a lighter color "messages
>> left border" as a mirroring of the "Low contrast Message" design?

http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Wiki?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=modern-CentOS-1.7-30-3.png

I did a cut and past to visualize what I mean, its a rude cut. I think 
you get the idea of what I mean with a "mirrored" design compared to the 
lighter backgrounds that has a discrete left border, so my thought was 
to have a light left border on the darker backgrounds. Im not shure if 
this is a good idea ;-)

http://www.ugg-lan.com/images/test.png

> Hi Mats, your thoughts were included in 1.7-30. Could you check it
> please, to make sure they were correctly interpreted.

See comments above.


And a new thought is to use the irregular square design from the top 
banner (3) to the background on the "message styles", that will give a 
more lively impression and less squarish... or what do you think?

(3) http://wiki.centos.org/wiki/modern-CentOS/img/moin-header-background.png

> Relevant Changes:
> 
> 1.7-30
> ======
> 
>   - Add Medium contrast Message style. The wiki syntax is:
> 
>   	||<id="mmimg" :^> attachment: ||||<id="mmtxt" (^> Text ... ||
> 
> 	it also support the following clases:
> 
> 	* class="orange"
> 	* class="red"
> 	* class="blue"
> 	* class="green"
> 	* class="violet"
> 
> 	To use a class (i.e class="blue") we can use the following line:
> 	
> 	||<id="mmimg" class="blue" :^> attachment: ||||<id="mmtxt"
> class="blue" (^> Text ...||
> 	
> 	If no class is used, then gray color is used.
> 
>   - Squares in the messages background were a bit reduced.
> 
>   - Add background to low and medium contrast messages to reflect
>     semitransparent squares.
> 
> Screenshots:
> 
> http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Wiki?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=modern-CentOS-1.7-30.png
> http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Wiki?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=modern-CentOS-1.7-30-1.png
> http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Wiki?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=modern-CentOS-1.7-30-2.png
> http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Wiki?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=modern-CentOS-1.7-30-3.png
> 
> Theme:
> 
> http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Wiki?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=modern-CentOS-1.7-30.tar.gz
> 
> ---
> What do you think now ?
> 
> Note: I don't know if the word Medium/Middle is correctly used here.
> 
> Cheers,
> al


Kind regards
Mats