On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:25:17PM +0100, mattias/spikboll wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 07:42:37 +0100 J.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We all know that Blackbox is wrapped around the fact that it's > > highly minimalistic. This is good. Minimalism is the way every Open > > Source identity should follow. Yet, why should minimalism mean bad > > design? Even though Blackbox is as easy and light like a feather, it > > doesn't mean that the graphics should make one bounce off the land > > of Blackbox just because there's a better-looking option. These > > days, design is everything. And in addition to having Blackbox > > functioning as light-weight desktop system, which it does without > > question, everyone should focus more on getting the light-weight > > graphics to look as if it was a graphical replacement of sex > > invented in year 4000. Nawamean? =) > > > > Well, I've never been more turned on by a windowmanager than by > blackbox. Minimal frames and handles, nice readable labels, soft > colours and this baby is hot! ;)
I have to be honest, when I first got blackbox, I was very surprised that none of the themes were pixmapped, and as I scrolled thorugh the default themes, I just got more and more amazed at what could be done with just simple built in functions, like interlaced, gradient elliptic, gradient rectangle, etc. I think the only disadvantage is that most of the themes only look good if you're using aterms, and if you opened up a GTK or KDE window, then the colors don't match sometimes (something n00bs would scream at). Anyway, I'm thinking maybe putting some matching themes into the default installation would be a good idea. I really like the combination of the Adept theme (from Sawfish), along with the Xeneon theme (for GTK), and I've kind of made an Adept theme for Blackbox, which I've been thinking about putting up on themes.org, but am not sure if I'm allowed to copy their theme ... Jerrold.
