Comments on: Evolution Cairo Coolness

By: Jones Lee

Jones Lee — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Does the Cairo slow down the perfomance?

By: Dan Gore

Dan Gore — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Will this be hardware accelerated with glitz?

By: Mathias Hasselmann

Mathias Hasselmann — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hope this gradient will be removed (or at least reworked). Currently it looks annoying. No offense indented, but it really doesn’t look that good…

By: mark

mark — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Keep up the good work!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Agree with Mathias, not too great, or really polished.

By: Wade Mealing

Wade Mealing — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Looks very smooth.

I’m assuming this pulls all the colors from your calender, that does look pretty smooth.

Of course, when all your desktop looks like candy AND is useful, tis going to rock.

By: Mathias Hasselmann

Mathias Hasselmann — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Ok, instead of bitching I've created a mockup:

http://taschenorakel.de/mathias/tmp/evoappmnt-glossy.svg
http://taschenorakel.de/mathias/tmp/evoappmnt-glossy.png

By: Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I like the idea of using cairo to polish Evolution, however the gradient is a bit too much. I personally think Outlook 2003’s white boxes with drop shadows is simple but effective.

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Oh, nice work.

By: Idan Gazit

Idan Gazit — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

First off, it looks lovely. A refreshing update, however like others point out, it needs polishing (to be expected for something so young).

The problem with glossy/shiny gradients for appointments has to do with the rest of the gnome interface. If the current GTK theme or the window manager theme has a certain kind of glossy (say top-lit) and the appointments have another (bottom- or front-lit) then you will have incongruous lighting.

I suggest a more tango approach since it’s A) attractive and B) less likely to conflict visually with anything else. I’ve hacked up some example appointment boxes: