Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 5th Jul 2008 22:07 UTC
As the Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) development gets going, many people will probably be wondering what new end-user features they can expect. This article lists the top 5 new features. My Take: Nothing really exciting. I still shiver over the inability of the default Totem installation not de-interlacing my camcomder-derived home videos and DVDs because GStreamer doesn't support it, or no full A/V support on Pidgin yet, or something as simple as this which I've been asking for years now and it would probably take 5 minutes to implement.
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At the moment, that page looks like it's just a huge custom control that draws bold text for the sections and then draws the section links and you can click on.
Drawing the darkened banner on the back is not that hard, even if you are worried about the usability repercussions. There must be the GTK equivalent to the Win32 function GetSysColor which allows you to retrieve the various colors associated with the current theme. One possibility in this scenario is to make the background of the banner use the color of controls (like buttons) and have the text colored the same as the theme's text color.
That way, if you can read the text on a pushbutton on a particular theme, you should have no issues with the banner. If you can't read the text, you're probably going to have issues reading text on controls anyway so go shoot your theme designer.