Re: GNUstep Icons and look proposal

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 19 août 04, à 16:22, Fred Kiefer a écrit :

> Marciano Siniscalchi wrote:
> > 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.
>
> You may be wrong here. Themes have never been controversial with 
> GNUstep. It is the default theme, that some people protect. Which is 
> fine for me. We have the OpenStep like default theme for these 
> die-hard OpenSteppers and for the rest there are ways to change the 
> look of GNUstep easily.

I think his idea would be to change the default theme to something more 
"modern-looking". Of course then the classic OpenStep look would still 
available for the
die hard fans :-)
But frankly, doing a good looking theme is not that easy, and if you 
want it as the default theme, you need to reach agreement among gnustep 
users.
I hope that new themes will appears after next Camaelon's release, so 
perhaps somebody will make a wonderful theme where everybody agree on. 
In the meantime,
no need to change the default theme at all.

>  Perhaps it would be easier, if an update version of Cameleon (using 
> the new GSDrawFunctions class) could be provided. But even so, 
> changing the colours and the images is easily done.
> No need to start another flame war on the default look of GNUstep.

I agree... and I hope to release a new version soon, I'm working on it.
If you want to change colors, don't forget there is a Color prefs 
module (see backbone cvs) -- while not perfect it let you change your 
colors easily.

--
Nicolas Roard
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