Re: Theme recycling was: Re: GUI without X11 / Artist Help

[Alex Perez]

Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 08.02.05 um 20:00 Uhr schrieb Nicolas Roard:
>
> > On 2005-02-08 18:07:13 +0000 jesse@jesseross.com wrote:
> >
> > > Also, apart from icons, is there a direction for the default GUI
> > > interface? I saw some of the theming that will be/is available through
> > > Camaelon -- has there been a clear consensus on keeping certain NEXTSTEP
> > > elements or moving to a more Mac look (ie: horizontal menubar versus
> > > vertical floating bar, scrollbar on left/right)? Any feedback on that
> > > would be helpful for redesiging the default GUI.
> >
> >
> > Well, the consus needs to be build, but I believe lots of people like 
> > the vertical menu...
> > although the "mac menu" style is nice when you don't have high 
> > resolution...
> > Scrollbars will likely stay where they are, but of course, as the menu 
> > style, that easily
> > modifiable via a gui bundle.
>
>
> I think it would be great if Camaeleon would have support for some 
> already existing theme formats, or if at least some converter would be 
> available that transforms other themes into Camaeleon ones. This way it 
> would be possible to access hundreds of existing themes like the ones 
> for ShapeShifter ( http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/shapeshifter ) here:
>
> http://www.macthemes.net/reviews/themes.php
> http://www.resexcellence.com/themes/
> http://www.maxthemes.com/themes/
> http://www.xthemes.net/themes/gallery.php
>
> or my favorite one:
>
> http://www.macthemes.net/articles/insider/000107.php
>
> and even a NeXT one:
>
> http://swizcore.com/SS/next.php

Yes, I couldn't agree more, and I know Nicolas has experimented with 
this in the past, when I directly requested such functionality from him.