Sea Glass artwork update
November 23, 2009
I haven’t had a whole lot of time recently, but I’ve updated the color palette (see the original colors back here) and drawn some new artwork for the Sea Glass look and feel. Kathryn has been plugging away on the implementation, working hard towards an initial release, which is still a ways off.
I’ll let the images do the rest of the talking!
Note that we haven’t settled on the color scheme for the Windows window chrome — suggestions and requests are welcome.
Exploding Pixels 
November 23, 2009 at 9:30 pm
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November 23, 2009 at 9:40 pm
If only you worked for Sun..
November 23, 2009 at 11:39 pm
If he worked for Sun we could maybe get Synth fixed so that we don’t have to re-implement about 40% of it to do a good L&F.
I’m quite frustrated by the amount of package local (default scoped) stuff in Synth.
And Nimbus has continued the trend.
November 23, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Which program did you use to create these screenshots?
November 23, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Adobe Fireworks.
November 23, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Yes, Ken uses Fireworks.
Are you Kosh Naranek?
-K
November 23, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Minor note: The JEditBox/JComboBox Border (gray square rectangle) appear inconsistent with that of JButton/JSpinner (blue rounded rectangle). Perhaps this is intentional, but I think that the absence of the bluish bgcolor should be enough to indicate a text-box, and a consistent border will look better. Just my personal $0.02…
November 23, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Hi Yair,
The difference in border color between the text field portion of the editable combo box and the button portion is indeed intentional (gray vs. blue). A blue border around the text portion would look strange, as would a gray border around the button part. I could experiment with a darker blue border around the text field component, but the more saturated the color, the more out of place it will look against the white content area of the text field.
Thanks for the input Yair!
-Ken
P.S. Let me know if I’ve misunderstood your comment!
November 24, 2009 at 12:37 am
How about then just a bluish border when focused? also I think rounded corners might look better
November 24, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I’ll try out rounded corners. I’ll update the artwork soon to include the focus indicator.
November 24, 2009 at 9:27 am
It looks very nice, only one question:
I think the color of the selected row in jTable is very dark, if the text color is black. Isn’t it ?
Nothing else, good good work.
November 24, 2009 at 8:10 pm
The selected text would be white, but I’m not committed to this. I can try lightening it up and keeping the selected row text black.
November 24, 2009 at 9:36 am
The up button of the pressed spinner *looks* bigger than the down button. The bright line at the top of the down button seems to be the visual separator of the two buttons, not the darker border. Is this even an issue? I guess you never see the spinner in this state, since the two buttons won’t be pressed at the same time. Unless the focused state looks like (or is similar to) the pressed state, which would make this an issue again.
November 24, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Astute (and correct) observation. You’re also correct that this will likely be imperceptible when only a single button is pressed.
November 24, 2009 at 9:35 pm
You’re right, it looks ok: http://i47.tinypic.com/2vdh3tc.png (don’t stare at this picture too long or the buttons will start to look disproportionate!)
However, when you only press the down button of the spinner, it looks like the background of the up button is bleeding into the down button. I guess this is because the bright line at the top of the down button has almost the same colour as the bottom line of the up button. Making the bright line a bit darker might help.
November 24, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Personal opinion – I like the original colors. New one is somewhere in between nimbus and original colors. Also, a little dull.
November 24, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Hi Ken,
As I indicated, good work!
But why is the left edge of the scroll knobs darker than the right edge in the two leftmost scroll bars? It makes them look slightly off center IMO.
Cheers,
Mikael
November 24, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Ahh, this is an interesting visual artifact. I can lighten up the left side of the scroll thumb. If you look at the iTunes scroll thumb in it’s track, you’ll notice a similar illusion.
November 24, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Agree with ranjith, its beautyful but pale, put more color into that just like the original inspiration
November 28, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Great work, Ken and Kathryn!
While it looks very polished, the theme is also somewhat pale and dull as other commenters have pointed out.
I think I’d like a real strong contrast color for the table/list/text selection colors, something like the “Orange” highlight color on the Mac.
Any way, keep up the great work!
.k
November 29, 2009 at 8:38 pm
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November 30, 2009 at 12:55 am
Awesome looking theme! Can’t wait to try out the final version!
December 2, 2009 at 7:20 am
I think its about time that laf authors agreed on a Serviceloader provider class.
I’m supporting the user changing the laf of my app himself, and doing this without a Service class is just a exercise to see which laf’s that the user might want i can forget.
Pleaso agree on this.
December 2, 2009 at 11:31 am
I don’t understand what your asking for.
December 2, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Isn’t it possible to simply loop through the L&F list? I’ve seen code that does this.
What more do you want?
December 2, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Or did you mean you want us to register our L&Fs with some vaporplace on the internet that you’ll go to to find out what exists?
Dream on.
December 2, 2009 at 11:52 pm
We’re very close to being able to let people have a look at where we are right now. I’d like to fix one more thing…
Not that that’s all that needs fixing, of course.
February 7, 2010 at 5:12 am
Can I port this theme to ubuntu GTK themes. I will not do it if you don’t allow me.