Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 36, Issue 37

[Michael Thaler]

On Saturday 26 November 2005 16:54, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> Since I think we have easily the best look and feel on large/modern
> displays, obviously changing the look/feel would be a BAD idea on
> those systems.  However, the rest I agree with ... we need themes for

Personally, I don't like the original nextstep/openstep look (I have a HP 
gecko with nextstep on it). I think it is dull and boring. And this has 
nothing todo with having a small display (mine is 17'' with 1280x1024 which 
is fine).  think Plastik is a very nice theme, it is simplistic, but not 
totally boring. Have a look at:

http://users.physik.tu-muenchen.de/mthaler/gnustep_plastik1.jpg
http://users.physik.tu-muenchen.de/mthaler/gnustep_plastik2.jpg

It is far from perfect, but I think Plastik looks also nice with gnustep and 
the gnustep applications now fit in quite well into my KDE desktop.
However, the theme is not complete yet.

I also do not like the gnustep icons too much. Have a look at

http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?cat=3

This will be the default icon theme for KDE4. I think they look quite nice. Is 
it somehow possible to change the gnustep icons or create icon themes?

> Another thing I'd like to see is thought on how to integrate better
> into non-gnustep environments, as this seems a fairly obvious first
> stage to getting people to look at GNUstep.   For instance, app icons

That is my point. Right now gnustep is basically only interesting for 
ex-nextstep users and some other geeks. And that is a shame.

Greetings,
Michael