On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Shaun McCance wrote: > Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:34:41 -0600 > From: Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Exciting GNOME? > > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 08:30 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Link Dupont"> > > > > > 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? > > > > Do you think of OS X's look'n'feel as flashy eye-candy? I don't. :-) It is > > very clean, very fresh, minimal in most cases (and becoming less funky with > > every OS X release). It might appear to be flashy because it's so different. > > Well, the original OS X look was very, very ribbed. It looked snazzy in > the > same way that gradients first looked cool when people first starting > using > them in themes. But it sort of got on your nerves after a while. > > Subsequent versions of OS X have toned down the ribbing, and it's a > great > improvement. Apple made a mistake and they fixed it. Let's learn from > that and just avoid the mistake altogether.
I believe Apple referred to them as *pinstripes*. I wounldn't normally see fit to mention it but the term you used unfortunately suggests something else completely different and given the day it is today it might not be such a bad idea to remind people to be particularly careful about their health. :P - Alan H _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
