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Tuesday, June 08, 2004

More on the new Firefox theme

Stephen Horlander (posting on Mozillazine): "We started working on this 'port' of icons from the Pinstripe theme a few months or so ago. Between work and real-life that amounts to around less than two weeks of actual focused work, at least on my part. Not really a lot of time to review, contemplate, and tweak anything that is close to polished. Certainly nothing I would consider 'final'. If I gave themes version numbers, this would be a 0.1 release at best. To be very clear: it is not finished. Not even close I would say. It had to go in now, so what we had finished we used. We would have liked to have time to finish but that wasn't an option. I am not going to touch on why Qute had to be replaced, I don't know any of the details. To be quite honest, I think Qute is a very nice theme in most respects. As everyone knows appearance is a highly subjective matter. What one person thinks is beautiful might induce vomiting in another. So feel free to dislike the new theme, I don't care, it is your right. Now if someone has some constructive comments about the new icons, please email Kevin or I(stephen@noved.org) so they can be considered and addressed properly."

djst's nest: "Why are we replacing an almost-perfect Windows XP theme with a nowhere near finished one barely at version 0.1? Why is waiting for Winstripe to mature not an option?"

Chris' corner: "[The] theme already picks up whatever colors the OS is using, which makes things like the scrollbars, drop down menus, and so on look already very professional [in Windows XP only]. No obvious bugs. I like the large amount of padding between buttons. Qute’s main fault in my eyes is that the buttons didn’t have enough padding between them. Negatives: It is my personal view that the main browser buttons (Back/Forward, Reload, Stop, Home) are WAY too simple. In fact, in the case of the refresh button, looks extremely cheap. The lighting is all wrong, some buttons should not have drop shadows, and the lack of 3D makes them look much worse on Windows XP. Basically, every button should be thrown out and completely redone, but it is a decent start considering this theme is far from being finished. The throbber, while better then the old Qute one, is way underwealming. What ever happened to those imaginative throbbers from the Netscape days (stars rotating around the big 'N' a good example)."

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