On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 17:57 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote: > Samuel Abels wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 00:32 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > >><quote who="Seth Nickell"> > >> > >>>In the bluecurve department, ClearLook > >>>(http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=19527), which I just found > >>>through this thread, looks like a hands-down improvement. > > > > > > Then I guess I am pretty alone when I don't feel that this is an > > improvement? > > > > Its an improvement over bluecurve but not a quantum leap in themes. All > the Gnome themes I have seen lack sex appeal and reinforce the view that > its all very bland (which is okay for a corporate desktop but boring to > everyone else). > > I do hope we can look forward to being innovative themewise rather than > just playing catchup all the time. I would guess MS will probably enable > XAML to include shading and lighting objects via Avalon (maybe even > embedding shading lanuguages within XAML?) so I expect Longhorn to look > very very pretty and possibly photorealistic. > > It would be nice if we could beat MS here and be the first out of the > door with more photorealistic themes.
It would be nice if we could just get a default theme that doesn't make users cringe, and worry about adding fancy stuff later as the technology becomes available. I would really hate to see us miss yet another release because everybody was too busy discussing Star Trek future stuff. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
