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- | ====== Xfce Design SIG (Special Interest Group) ====== | + | ~~NOTOC~~ |
- | The Xfce Design SIG aims at improving the usability and visual appearance of the Xfce desktop environment. Our goal is to bring interested users, designers and hackers together to ensure neither of them is working in a vacuum. By establishing a context in which they can collaborate on smaller and larger design-related projects we try to increase the chance of the proposed changes to be merged into the official Xfce repositories. | + | * **[[#Color Palette|Color Palette]]** |
+ | * **[[#Icon Standards|Icon Standards]]** | ||
- | ===== Members | + | ====== Xfce Design Standards ====== |
- | Members of the Design SIG are not appointed or elected. Everyone can participate! Feel free to add your name, interests and skills to the following list if you are striving for regular contributions to our ongoing design efforts. | + | The Xfce design standard aims at improving |
- | | **Name** | **IRC Nickname** | **Interests (In the SIG Context)** | **Skills (Applicable in the SIG Context)** | | + | ===== Color Palette ===== |
- | | Simon Steinbeiß | ochosi | GTK theming; UI improvements | mockups, gtk-theming | | + | |
- | | Jannis Pohlmann | JPohlmann | Improve usability and visual appearance of Xfce | Knows Xfce well, can code | | + | |
- | | Nick Schermer | NSchermer | Same as above | Same as above | | + | |
- | | Pasi Lallinaho | knome | Any UI/ | + | |
- | | Jon Masters | jonmasters | UI roadmap, usability/ | + | |
- | ===== Accepted, Completed and Active Projects ===== | + | Source: |
+ | * **[[https:// | ||
- | * **Thunar** | + | {{xfce-color-palette.svg? |
- | * [[design: | + | |
- | * [[design: | + | |
- | * **xfce4-appfinder** | + | |
- | * [[design: | + | |
- | * **xfwm4-tabwin** | + | |
- | * [[design: | + | |
- | * **Session-menu/ | + | |
- | * [[design: | + | |
- | * **xfce4-profile-manager** | + | |
- | * [[design: | + | |
- | * **Ristretto** | + | |
- | * [[design: | + | |
- | * [[design: | + | |
- | * **xfce4-settings** | + | |
- | * [[design: | + | |
- | ===== Project Proposals ===== | + | |
- | Here you can propose new UI-related projects for the Design SIG to work on. Please provide a title and a short description and maybe a link to mockups and related information. | + | ---- |
- | ==== Big Tasks ==== | + | ^ Color ^ Hexadecimal ^ RGB ^ Name ^ |
+ | | :--: | :--: | :--: | :--: | | ||
+ | | {{midnight-1.png|}} | #61757f | (97, 117, 127) | Midnight 1 | | ||
+ | | {{midnight-2.png|}} | #485e6b | (72, 94, 107) | Midnight 2 | | ||
+ | | {{midnight-3.png|}} | #344958 | (52, 73, 88) | Midnight 3 | | ||
+ | | {{midnight-4.png|}} | #263742 | (38, 55, 66) | Midnight 4 | | ||
+ | | {{midnight-5.png|}} | #070c0f | (7, 12, 15) | Midnight 5 | | ||
+ | | {{grey-1.png|}} | #f1f3f5 | (241, 243, 245) | Grey 1 | | ||
+ | | {{grey-2.png|}} | #d2d8dc | (210, 216, 220) | Grey 2 | | ||
+ | | {{grey-3.png|}} | #bcc5ca | (188, 197, 202) | Grey 3 | | ||
+ | | {{grey-4.png|}} | #a7b0b7 | (167, 176, 183) | Grey 4 | | ||
+ | | {{grey-5.png|}} | #758087 | (117, 128, 135) | Grey 5 | | ||
+ | | {{blue-1.png|}} | #c1ebf7 | (193, 235, 247) | Blue 1 | | ||
+ | | {{blue-2.png|}} | #6acfec | (106, 207, 236) | Blue 2 | | ||
+ | | {{blue-3.png|}} | #00aade | (0, 170, 222) | Blue 3 | | ||
+ | | {{blue-4.png|}} | #006888 | (0, 104, 136) | Blue 4 | | ||
+ | | {{blue-5.png|}} | #003445 | (0, 52, 69) | Blue 5 | | ||
+ | | {{green-1.png|}} | #d7fdb2 | (215, 253, 178) | Green 1 | | ||
+ | | {{green-2.png|}} | #aef766 | (174, 247, 102) | Green 2 | | ||
+ | | {{green-3.png|}} | #6acc0a | (106, 204, 10) | Green 3 | | ||
+ | | {{green-4.png|}} | #52a302 | (82, 163, 2) | Green 4 | | ||
+ | | {{green-5.png|}} | #3c7902 | (60, 121, 2) | Green 5 | | ||
+ | | {{yellow-1.png|}} | #fcf4c0 | (252, 244, 192) | Yellow 1 | | ||
+ | | {{yellow-2.png|}} | #fbeb83 | (251, 235, 131) | Yellow 2 | | ||
+ | | {{yellow-3.png|}} | #f9da02 | (249, 218, 2) | Yellow 3 | | ||
+ | | {{yellow-4.png|}} | #dcb102 | (220, 177, 2) | Yellow 4 | | ||
+ | | {{yellow-5.png|}} | #ad7702 | (173, 119, 2) | Yellow 5 | | ||
+ | | {{red-orange-1.png|}} | #f3b6a6 | (243, 182, 166) | Red-Orange 1 | | ||
+ | | {{red-orange-2.png|}} | #ec866a | (236, 134, 106) | Red-Orange 2 | | ||
+ | | {{red-orange-3.png|}} | #e6461d | (230, 70, 29) | Red-Orange 3 | | ||
+ | | {{red-orange-4.png|}} | #c02700 | (192, 39, 0) | Red-Orange 4 | | ||
+ | | {{red-orange-5.png|}} | #851b00 | (133, 27, 0) | Red-Orange 5 | | ||
+ | | {{purple-1.png|}} | #d4ade2 | (212, 173, 226) | Purple 1 | | ||
+ | | {{purple-2.png|}} | #b97ace | (185, 122, 206) | Purple 2 | | ||
+ | | {{purple-3.png|}} | #9c41bf | (156, 65, 191) | Purple 3 | | ||
+ | | {{purple-4.png|}} | #753390 | (117, 51, 144) | Purple 4 | | ||
+ | | {{purple-5.png|}} | #471d57 | (71, 29, 87) | Purple 5 | | ||
+ | | {{brown-1.png|}} | #c6a798 | (198, 167, 152) | Brown 1 | | ||
+ | | {{brown-2.png|}} | #a17a69 | (161, 122, 105) | Brown 2 | | ||
+ | | {{brown-3.png|}} | #79503c | (121, 80, 60) | Brown 3 | | ||
+ | | {{brown-4.png|}} | #603f2f | (96, 63, 47) | Brown 4 | | ||
+ | | {{brown-5.png|}} | #4a3025 | (74, 48, 37) | Brown 5 | | ||
+ | [[|Back to Top]] | ||
+ | ---- | ||
- | * **Thunar: Improve | + | ===== Application Icons ===== |
- | * The current shared file operation progress dialog provides rather sparse information. It is not easy to decide what information //should// be displayed and how. | + | |
- | * Initial thoughts were written down here: http:// | + | |
- | * **Thunar: Add a persistent, editable UI to copy/move files** | + | ==== Icon Colors ==== |
- | * I've seen something like this in OS X recently: whenever drag-and-drop is initiated in Finder, [[http:// | + | |
- | * Have a simple D-Bus service that allows to store/ | + | Xfce icons use the [[design: |
- | ==== Smaller Tasks and UI Improvements | + | |
- | * **Thunar: Show free-space-status of devices in sidebar** | + | |
- | | + | ==== Icon Sizes ==== |
- | * **Parole** | + | |
- | * [[Parole-UI|Improve Parole' | + | Xfce supports icon sizes of 16px, 24px, 32px, 48px, 64px, 96px, and 128px. Application icons should be provided for all supported sizes. |
- | * **Terminal: Make tabs look the same as in other programs**. | + | |
- | * See https:// | + | |
- | * I agree the tabs look nicer, but the border around the VteWidget is ugly and makes the terminal resize. | + | ==== Icon Margins ==== |
- | * **Notifications: | + | |
- | * Xfce's brightness-notifications (which come from power-manager) | + | The icon sizes above list the final size of the SVG or the PNG, the full page size. But all icons above 16px should have empty space around the icon content as margins. For example, for a square 64px icon, the square shape would be 56x56px, leaving 4px of empty space on all sides (making the final icon size 64x64px). The margin space needed increases as icon size increases. See the [[design: |
- | * I think we should pass these all through the notification daemon | + | |
- | * I like the idea of having a few notifications displayed differently, | + | |
- | | + | ==== Icon Shapes ==== |
- | * When you create a new folder or file, you type the name, press enter and then you want to open it by pressing enter a second time but you can't. Solution is to just make the file/folder selected after it was created. --- // | + | |
- | | + | There are no hard rules on icon shapes, but the main content of the icon should stay within certain limits and provide a certain amount of margins. The [[design:start#Icon Dimensions Table]] below provides details. Icons that are not square or circular should still be limited to the square size dimensions. Using a 48px icon as an example, the square should be 40x40px. A rectangular |
- | * Thunar with toolbar have 4 different shortcut menu or button. I propose to remove 2 of them to simplify the toolbar.[[http:// | + | |
- | * I agree that some elements | + | |
- | * I second the idea of dropping the home-shortcut and moving the arrow inside the entry, this makes total sense to me. I also agree with the history-popup-buttons, | + | ==== Icon Borders ==== |
- | * **xfwm4-tabwin** //[[nick@afternight.org|nickl]] 2011/ | + | |
- | * Users should have the option of only showing the outline of the window | + | Icons should have a 1px border at all sizes except at 128px. 128px icons are used as scalable icons and have no borders. |
- | * Showing | + | |
- | * Would also be nice if the opacity of the window being shown could be selected. | + | |
- | * **Clean up the theme and wallpaper collection.** Include Shimmer themes in the collection. | + | ==== Icon Corners |
- | * **Design a good, default wallpaper for Xfce.** --- // | + | |
- | * **Design a nicer mouse pointer, with curve borders** | + | Square and rectangular icons use rounded corners (see the [[design:start#Icon Dimensions Table]] below). Elements within icons should generally also use rounded corners. |
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+ | ==== Icon Position and Alignment ==== | ||
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+ | All icons should be centered both horizontally | ||
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+ | <note important> | ||
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+ | ==== Icon Dimensions Table ==== | ||
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+ | ^ Icon Size ^ Square/Rectangle Corner Radius | ||
+ | | 16px | 2px | 16px (0px) | 16px (0px) | 1px | ||
+ | | 24px | 3px | 20px (2px) | ||
+ | | 32px | 3px | 28px (2px) | ||
+ | | 48px | 4px | 40px (4px) | 42px (3px) | 1px | | ||
+ | | 64px | 6px | 56px (4px) | 60px (2px) | 1px | | ||
+ | | 96px | 8px | 80px (8px) | 82px (8px) | 1px | | ||
+ | | 128px | 8px | 104px (12px) | ||
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+ | ==== Icon Detail ==== | ||
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+ | Icons should be fairly simple and easy to understand. While a larger icon may be more detailed, detail | ||
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+ | ==== Icon Naming ==== | ||
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+ | Application icons use the [[wp> | ||
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+ | [[|Back to Top]] | ||
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+ | [[:|Back to main Xfce Wiki page]] | ||
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