On 11/26/05, Michael Thaler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 26 November 2005 16:54, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: > > > Since I think we have easily the best look and feel on large/modern > > displays, obviously changing the look/feel would be a BAD idea on > > those systems. However, the rest I agree with ... we need themes for > > Personally, I don't like the original nextstep/openstep look (I have a HP > gecko with nextstep on it). I think it is dull and boring. And this has > nothing todo with having a small display (mine is 17'' with 1280x1024 which > is fine). think Plastik is a very nice theme, it is simplistic, but not > totally boring. Have a look at: > > http://users.physik.tu-muenchen.de/mthaler/gnustep_plastik1.jpg > http://users.physik.tu-muenchen.de/mthaler/gnustep_plastik2.jpg > > It is far from perfect, but I think Plastik looks also nice with gnustep and > the gnustep applications now fit in quite well into my KDE desktop. > However, the theme is not complete yet.
Pretty cool, indeed ! is it a Camaelon theme ? care to make it available ? :-) I should probably update properly the camaelon webpage and put the available themes to download... > I also do not like the gnustep icons too much. Have a look at > > http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?cat=3 > > This will be the default icon theme for KDE4. I think they look quite nice. Is > it somehow possible to change the gnustep icons or create icon themes? I dislike them ;-) (too clunky) but the possiblity of changing gnustep icons exists. There's a file you can change to select which icon to load. Though, it should probably be simpler, as simple as putting an "Icon theme" bundle in your ~/GNUstep/ directory.. > > Another thing I'd like to see is thought on how to integrate better > > into non-gnustep environments, as this seems a fairly obvious first > > stage to getting people to look at GNUstep. For instance, app icons > > That is my point. Right now gnustep is basically only interesting for > ex-nextstep users and some other geeks. And that is a shame. indeed. -- Nicolas Roard "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep