Re: GNUstep Icons and look proposal

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 19 août 04, à 15:12, Marciano Siniscalchi a écrit :

> Nicolas Roard wrote:
> > Actually, yes, it won't be very hard to provide "icon themes". In 
> > fact, if you want it, just take Camaelon, remove most of the stuff 
> > and just keep the Image.m -- it will replaces all icons on the fly if 
> > the theme contains them. So technically, it's not a problem at all. 
> > Perhaps I should effectively provide a small "IconTheme" bundle if 
> > people want to package existing icons theme ? I probably won't do it 
> > myself (package thoses icons) but if someone want to do it, drop me a 
> > mail.
>
> Does this mean that the Camaleon patch (ver. 0.1, I believe?) linked 
> from your web page works with current (i.e. non-stable) versions of 
> -base and -gui? I tried applying it a couple of months ago and had 
> trouble with it. But I may have done something stupid, so don't worry 
> about it too much.

nope, this version doesn't work. Not that it would be much work to have 
it working, but as I expect to release quite soon a new version...

> BTW, I really think that a more up-to-date defaul theme for GNUstep is 
> important. It's maybe OK to say that developers should look "under the 
> hood" when considering a development framework. However, as a 
> developer, I want to make sure that *users* will find the programs I 
> write pleasant to the eye and consistent with what they are accustomed 
> to.
>
> Notice that I said "up-to-date default theme", not "themeability" 
> (sp?). The latter is potentially more controversial, althouhg it would 
> be useful for the purposes of customization and/or integration with 
> existing DE's.

Well, themability could effectively be controversial. But anyway, it's 
possible. Now, for replacing the default theme by another, you would 
need to have a theme
everybody agree on (at least a majority). Most of us like the OpenStep 
one...

--
Nicolas Roard
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