In my opinion the default appearance of Spark components in Flex could be greatly improved.
As an example, the Ext JS (AKA Sencha) javascript framework has many components very similar to the ones in Flex, indeed Ext has billed itself as a Flex replacement. Ext has a gray theme (amongst others) that is very alike in color scheme to Flex (http://docs.sencha.com/extjs/4.2.1/extjs-build/examples/build/KitchenSink/ext-theme-gray/#progress-bar-pager), but somehow everything looks nicer in Ext. Both Ext and Flex make use of gradients and alternating colors in grids and icons and drop shadows and so forth, but they are used more tastefully in Ext. In my experience it is possible to get Spark looking very nice, but this generally requires lots of tweaking of paddings/margins/colors/fonts/layouts. My experience with Ext has been that the defaults generally look good. Personally a prettier default theme for Flex would be a major incentive for me to use it in new development. This is just my 2 cents/pennys of course - I am aware that no-one has any obligation to do the large amounts of work required to make Flex prettier. Gareth -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/NEW-SKINS-FOR-FLEX-DESKTOP-COMPONENTS-tp30005p30077.html Sent from the Apache Flex Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
