On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 07:48 -0800, Link Dupont wrote: > I think a competition is a good idea. Seems more likely than a long > thread on d-d-l to produce results (based on previous discussions about > themes on d-d-l). For what its worth, I never designed > SmoothGNOME/Glider with flashy, shiny, eye-candy effects in mind. Not > sure why we feel the need to have such a theme as a default though; the > only reason I can see is to compete with OS X (lets face it, we've got > Windows XP Luna beat, even with themes like Crux o_O). > Do we want to advertise GNOME as a flashy eye-candy based Desktop? I > always liked GNOME's clean, basic, simple interface; it was never > cluttered with bouncing icons and flashing lights. That always appealed > to me. Is the motivation for a flashy new theme to effectively gain > more "market" share? > > -Link >
Eye-candy and elegance are not mutually exclusive! Done properly (ala Apple :)) they can really make people stop and look, who would have otherwise scanned right past. Ed Mack _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
