It's clearly stated there in red that repo access is closed at least until the Alpha, the only reason to reopen it would be if there was a decent amount of people willing to contribute post Alpha release, that clearly didn't happen.
It says you've 'disabled easy access until release'. I'm not a programmer so I don't know whether you mean you've disabled easy access to part or whole of the thing. In any case mercurial seemed to pull files off the repo just fine, but the links in girls.rar are mostly dead. Not that it matters in any case, I'm content as a cucumber to tinker with the version I've got.
I really hate the fact that the top stripe covers the peak of the building, otherwise icons are prolly an improvement (if the rest of the top stripe buttons are substututed with icons as well).
I thought that might bother me too, but to be honest there's no UI elements in most of the top half of that image and so I didn't find the slight clipping super noticeable. On the other hand, I wanted enough space to put decent sized easily accessible buttons for those functions you were likely to access a lot: girls menu, brothel menu, next day button and the save/load functions. If it's that much of an issue I can resize the background image, which I'll probably have to do anyway to make way for the tooltip box. That will probably mean repositioning the map icons though and at present I have no idea which of the many *.rpy files those buttons are buried in, which is doing my head in.
Cool icons, though our gui is decorated in dark colors (like background for AP on your screenshot). If you could make them somewhat darker, it would be great.
We still don't have anyone to work with gui (that's why it is so frustrating and clunky), so any help is welcomed.
I went with bright icons for the contrast. These buttons need to stand out I think, they access core functions. Besides, a lot of the game backgrounds are actually quite bright and the original mainscreen UI is done in light-ish pink/purple colours. That said, I'll probably have to tweak it as I go along. Best not to consider the look as final, I'm more trying to find a layout that works at this point.
EDIT: Added some stuff, more or less done with the main screen. The districts highlight on mouseover. It's pretty.