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Re: Themes (again)
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Xavier Brochard |
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Re: Themes (again) |
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Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:11:27 +0200 |
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Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> a écrit :
On 09/26/13 12:47, David Chisnall wrote:
So, my question is: do we have a single theme that works, is
complete, and doesn't look like a throwback to the early '90s?
In Étoilé we have:
- Nesedah, where we spent a lot of effort getting the mockups right
but then hit problems with how GNUstep handles frames and borders
and couldn't implement it correctly
- Narcissus, which looks okay except when you have a table view
(because the headers are white on light grey). I'd fix this if the
theme support were documented sufficiently well for me to be able
to work out how...
- Aristo2, which got off to a promising start at the DevMeeting is
unfinished.
The Silver theme looks okay, so maybe it's a good choice, although
still a bit dated.
GAP offers a limited set of themes. Your asking for "complete" is
hard, since while implementing I hit several limits in creating
themes with thematic.. which result in parts not being implements as
I wished.
The only close to complete themes I can offer are:
- Sleek. Either you like it or you hate it and I think for you it is
the latter. I am still tweaking a couple of details before at least
a "0.1 release". A 0.2 release needs a new look in the menus, in the
design I envisioned, but I need to learn to do that!
- Neos. The only theme hitting a 0.1 release in GAP. Some people
like it, I don't love it anymore.. I did some mockups, but when I
saw it finished and complete in acutal applications like GWorkspace,
it is too strong. Also, you will find it dated, because it is very
NeXTish actually. I'm studying an updated 0.2 release from what I
have learned in Sleek, but it will take time to redo all the icon
set in a different color palette.
I don't have more radical themes in the pipeline, because I want to
see these themes working first.
I am new to this list, I subscribed after I've read "GNUstep
Mythbusting..." on Greg Casamento's blog and discussions here about
theming, because I thought that there are simple solutions to all
those myths about Gnustep :
1) Put everything on opendesktop.org That means
- simple color themes
- complete themes
- wrapper scripts - specially for common applications: firefox and office ones
- icons
- applications
- tips
- etc.
You will have to request Frank Karlitchek to open a dedicated gnustep section.
2) Release a desktop. A simple one. Curently, Gnustep as a desktop is
already better and more complete than Razor-qt, LXDE or EDE. What is
mainly missing, but can be provided with existing Windowmaker
appicons, are a notification area and something to easily mount and
umount. Add some wrappers script and you will have the basis for a
very good 0.1 desktop.
This should provide attention to Gnustep, attract new users, and I
have no doubt that you will soon have plenty of new themes.
I'm a sysadmin, I would be happy to help about this.
Regards
--
Xavier
xavier@alternatif.org
Re: Themes (again), Liam Proven, 2013/09/27
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