Re: Themes (again)

[Riccardo Mottola]

Liam,

On 09/27/13 14:21, Liam Proven wrote:
> To this day, I think the default GNUstep theme of restrained greys and
> blacks is one of the most distinctive, smart, elegantly restrained
> looks in the entire world of GUIs on any and all computers. I think
> we'd be mad to throw it away.
rest assured that i will make everything possible to have this theme 
remain (although  it is imperfect in several details). Also i will 
battle that it will remain the default. I make some small tweaks to the 
default from time to time.

Others have different opinions though and also, again, others have 
different uses for GNUstep.

This is why I, the most strenuous defender of the NeXT look, started to 
make themes and support their existence!

Others might need a theme because their setup is different, because they 
want to integrate, because they have a different display than yours.

I other words, provided that the default one remains or gets improved, 
how does the availability of themes impact and disturbs you? if you 
don't need them, don't use them!
But if there are themes that other people like, what's bad about it?
It may attract new uses, new apps, new developers which will help to 
improve the environment even for you, using the "classic" theme.

*What are your concerns?*

When I was young and foolish, I installed themes on my Mac classic. 
Usually, they lasted one day and I often went to a default look (or 
actually, a theme closely to the default). However I liked the freedom 
to play with them. Sometimes it is just about to "know" that there is 
some freedom that makes you happy, even if you don't exploit it.

Riccardo