About:
Grey Possum is a simple theme designed for a laptop. It has wide borders for easy grasping and should blend in with just about any background or widget theme.

Author:
Spooky Possum <callum |at| mail |dot| physics |dot| otago |dot| ac |dot| nz> [contact developer]

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Tar/GZ:
http://download.freshmeat.net/themes/greypossum/

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Topic]		Desktop Environment :: Theme :: Misc, Desktop Environment :: Window Managers :: Sawfish :: Themes 0.30

Dependencies: [change]
sawfish (required)
[download links]

 Comments

[»] wide borders
by N/A - Jan 30th 2001 19:07:08

Your comment about wanting big borders on a laptop is sometimes true, in terms of easily hitting a mouse target, but then a typical laptop screen is lower resolution than a typical desktop, so many people want smaller borders. I've given up on the theme-making game myself, but a couple things that I was intrigued with in sawfish are: 1.) graphics with transparency are mouse-transparent 2.) graphics can be made to change on mouseover This means that you can have a graphic for a window handle or button that is thin and unobtrusive, but on mouseover turns into a big fat target. A theme with such a feature would solve a real usability issue for mobile computing. I experimented with this effect a bit with an old theme, "sawzilla." I don't even know if it works in current versions of sawfish. I sure wish someone would use this feature. WHo knows, it might catch on.

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