Comment 10 for bug 563218

On 5/30/10, Andy.hall06 <email address hidden> wrote:
> @Kido
>
> Are you the main Dev for the Dust theme?
>
> I just feel that it used to be the most polished sleek theme and it has
> lost a lot of its charm now. Lets be honest with ourselves,
> Linux/GNOME/GTK+ themes aren't usually the most polished things around,
> Dust was an exception, so I think it's important not to go backwards :)
> What about the older Dust borders before it became a community theme
> installed by default in Ubuntu?
>
> Specifically, why was the glossy progress bar changed? Was it forced
> upon you or was it choice? The old bar was awesome, not only did it have
> a gradient, vivid colours but was also animated to make it seem like its
> going faster (perception :)). The new one isn't even neutral, its
> just........ugly (sorry :))
>
> I think the older Dust, Dust bordered were both perfect. Dust Sand is
> still awesome but the window controls could be made more obvious (small
> glyphs like in Dust normal instead of just radio buttons).
>

I'm one of the main devs. Mainly, it was dashua doing v0.5 (in Lucid),
and I was too busy with school to maintain the theme. We'll take these
comments into consideration. :)

> Finally, Dust now seems to occupy less of the Nautilus (and in general
> GTK apps) toolbar than before (breadcrumbs/location bar not themed
> anymore), but I'm guessing this was probably a GTK+ change yeah?
>

The nautilus breadcrumbs bar is a nautilus change. The smaller GTK
toolbars are probably a theme change (so that toolbars don't use too
much vertical space).