Re: GNUstep and Theming...

[Fred Kiefer]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 4 Jan 2009, at 22:55, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
>> I'd like to re-prioritize one of the points I mentioned in the
>> previous email.   I think that theming should be much higher priority
>> than I stated previously.
>>
>> I think it should be one of our top priorities at this point.
> 
> Yes.

I also have it on my list as one of the next things to work on. But then
there are so many things that need work :-(

>>    It seems that theming is one of the central reasons that users shy
>> away from GNUstep.
> 
> 
> Actually, while I would have agreed with this a couple of years ago, I
> see no evidence that this is really the case.
> Yes there are always a few vociferous people who complain about the way
> things look, but the actual interest in the theming code/application,
> since it was added in 2006, has been about zero.
> I'm still hoping that if we actually had a few well designed themes to
> show, it might change things though.
> 

I agree with Richard here, we need theme, but we should not expect to
much to result from offering better themes. It is the whole of GNUstep
that counts not just one specific aspect.