Re: Look and Feel

[Alex Perez]

Jesse Ross wrote:
> > I would appreciate it if you would define what you mean by "default 
> > theme".   I
> > realize that this is confusing, but here goes:
> >
> > 1) GNUstep has a "built-in" or "native" look, one that doesn't require 
> > a theme
> > to be shown.
> > 2) GNUstep also has a theme engine called Camaelon.  Because it uses 
> > theme
> > bundles, it's capable of changing almost any aspect of the UI.
> >
> > When you say "default theme" are you referring to #1 or a theme bundle 
> > written
> > for Camaelon, as described in #2?
>
>
> I'm thinking of what a user first sees when they launch a GNUstep based 
> environment, be it Backbone or Etoile, or Garma  or the LiveCD or 
> what-have-you.

But you see, Jesse, you're making it more simple than it actually is. 
Etoile can have a different /default/ theme than the one that ships with 
the GNUstep-GUI source package itself. So your statement doesn't make 
much sense in light of that. I fully expect Etoile to do this, as a 
matter of fact. You really should be concentrating your efforts here, IMHO.

> I realize that this is more the responsibility of the 
> desktop than GNUstep, but I believe I've read correctly that many users 
> and developers on the list would like to have some "theme" defined for 
> GNUstep so that users can easily recognize the environment, and we can 
> more easily market it. Currently, this "theme" is the NeXT-inspired one, 
> even if it's not a theme proper. I would like to see that theme updated, 
> and it doesn't matter much to me where it is implemented.
But it matters to most other developer-types, because where it's 
implemented dictates where the code which makes it so goes.

Alex Perez