[Typo3-dev] Skin - comments and suggestions

[Lasse Nørby]

Hi Thomas!
I see your points, and as I said, this is a very ultra beta stage..
As far as the colors go, i am still playing around trying to get to the
optimal settings (at least for me) and they will probably change a lot
during development. I'm not to keen on dark colors for a gui.
Icons are there to try to guide the user as to what happens when he clicks
them, and this is very hard to do with tiny little pixel icons. Especially
when Typo3 depends so much on it, and there are so many different functions.
This is an ext. I've just overwritten the border img (pretty annoying!), but
everything else is styled with css.
Very nice initiative with the skinning API by the way!
Cheers!
Lasse

"Thomas Murphy" <murphy at spreekonzept.de> wrote in message
news:mailman.1.1117915568.4121.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi Lasse,
>
> Lasse Nørby wrote:
> > I'm in the very! hard process of making a skin.
> > Got a long way to go, but I would like to hear some suggestions on
colors -
> > icons etc.
>
> The skin looks nice, but for my personal taste it's a bit too light -
> with no contrast and seperated areas the eye gets lost across the screen.
> I would also scale the icons down a bit- they use up too much space, the
> list view could carry more than twice as much rows. This is hard to do
> with those crystal icons, which is one of the reasons I never really
> liked them. I think pixelgraphics are the way to go, they can be scaled
> down much further and still remain very clear and good in contrast.
>
> Some of the details make me think this is still a Photoshop/Gimp design
> and you didn't make it a skin by now? (border.html)
>
> Your welcome to join me on the work on the skinning API and skin design,
> see the thread below if interested.
>
> bye,
> Thomas