AROS Window Themes

[miker1264]

Nice, actually the curves are not perfect, although my vision after laser surgery on one eye is not what it used to be, I see the straight lines slightly wavy.
If you attach Tiffany Theme I can try to see if it improves something on AROS One, maybe I try to play with some values !

I'm still working on the AROS Tiffany Theme.
But it will be ready soon. It's more difficult than others. 

[Amiwell]

Many thanks Miker

[miker1264]

AROS Tiffany is more difficult than other themes.

The titlebar graphics have to be drawn correctly so that the graceful S-curves look good. There's also the problem with the close gadget. It seems that AROS can't composite 32bit images with transparency. So I have to draw the close gadget graphics. And with Tiffany there are two transition areas, one on the left and one on the right before gadgets.

I have redone all the Titlebar graphics. Now I have to work on Titlebar gadget images to make sure it all matches.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Ok thanks

[miker1264]

I had to remake all the Titlebar images then I made some composite images to get the close gadget images to look nice and centered. Now I'm ready to test AROS Tiffany. 

I'm sorry about the jpeg image quality. All the Titlebar images are exactly the same dimensions but because of jpeg compression they seem to be different. Nice S-curves though.

[miker1264]

This is my concept for the Watercolor Blue theme from Windows Whistler. I have made a new style for AROS.

I designed the arrow gadgets, size gadget and slider knobs and containers to match the TitleBar graphics. I used XP style arrows and I've noticed the diagonal lines for a size gadget having been a popular Windows style.

BTW in Windows jargon I believe they are horizontal and vertical scrollbars, arrow buttons and a resize gripper. The grips for the slider knobs I made them small dimples to maintain the clean look of the theme. It's better than expected. 

PS - I'm still working on AROS Tiffany. It's a bit complicated.

[pixie]

This is my concept for the Watercolor Blue theme from Windows Whistler. I have made a new style for AROS.

I designed the arrow gadgets, size gadget and slider knobs and containers to match the TitleBar graphics. I used XP style arrows and I've noticed the diagonal lines for a size gadget having been a popular Windows style.

BTW in Windows jargon I believe they are horizontal and vertical scrollbars, arrow buttons and a resize gripper. The grips for the slider knobs I made them small dimples to maintain the clean look of the theme. It's better than expected. 

PS - I'm still working on AROS Tiffany. It's a bit complicated.

Nice and clean! Congrats!

[AMIGASYSTEM]

This is my concept for the Watercolor Blue theme from Windows Whistler. I have made a new style for AROS.

Bravo, I like it, this will also be included on AROS One !!!

If you would like to take some cues for creating new themes, I am attaching some themes from AfA One, one of them one I created, I was just starting out, so nothing qualitative.

[miker1264]

They all look good including your custom theme that you made. Are they only available in blue? Or are there others?

There are so many choices for new theme styles and for variations on existing themes. We haven't even started the glass series yet. Black glass, red glass, blue glass, green glass, purple glass, etc. 

[AMIGASYSTEM]

No the ones with glass effect have only one color, but I think they move color, I tried to give these colors !

[miker1264]

Wow! Those look great.

I could make some AROS x86 themes from the first theme style, the blue one with square transition areas on left & right. The alternate glass color bars can be used for more color variations. It's easy to HSL shift the hues for glass colors.

The second one from top (original screenshot) with the curved transitions doesn't look as promising as a template.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Yes indeed the second "Looking-Glass" in addition to the curves also the color is not perfect, I attach one, also I attach other colors for the theme "Hip", to one I came up with a striped version, it does not look good though !

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Hip-Red tested on the fly on AROS One 68k 

[miker1264]

Now that's a winner!

Your Titlebar gadgets should be a darker color. But the Titlebar itself and background image both look great. 

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Yes I had only replaced the bar, today I will try to complete the Blue version on AROS One x86!