Re: GNUstep's default theme...

[Gregory Casamento]

I want to make it clear that I'm not referring to themes which change colors or 
do simple tricks to change the appearance of the GUI.  It has to go further 
than that.

Gregory Casamento
greg.casamento@gmail.com
Open Logic Corporation, President/CEO
GNUstep Lead Developer


On Sep 12, 2013, at 5:13 AM, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> 
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 09/12/13 07:49, Germán Arias wrote:
>> On 2013-09-11 23:29:07 -0600 Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I don't think the default theme is the problem. The problem is that the 
>> users don't
>> see, at website, screenshots of gnustep running with other themes or in other
>> desktops. Or even an visible link to get other themes. I remember that some 
>> time
>> ago was discussed about put a link with screenshots at website. For example, 
>> we
>> can put images of gnustep running on Gnome, KDE, Etoile and Windows.
>> Alongside the default theme on WindowMaker.
> well, there are few usable and complete themes out there. Thus there are few 
> screenshots with them
> 
> There are however, if you look on the website, wiki or on the few blogs, 
> there is a good percentage of screenshots taken with different themes, 
> including windows.
> 
> However, given that few themes are finished enough to be called usable and 
> given that we have few screenshots circulating at all.... one could get that 
> impression indeed.
> 
> More than a boring "mega gallery", their appearance need to be felt natural, 
> see my other post about that.
> 
>> Also, we can add a couple of themes in GUI package. As examples of what is
>> possible. So, the user can switch the theme easy.
> Of course, theme needs to be packaged, but themes need to be finished too. I 
> consider my themes still very rough, although Sleek is close to a release.
> 
>> I can add some icons to Silver theme, to release a new version soon.
> Blog about it :)
> 
> Riccardo
> 
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