Since we're talking about these things, it might not be a bad idea to have the most important themes presented on the front page:
1) the default theme... 2) the windows theme 3) the GNOME theme once it's finished. This way people could easily see GNUstep's flexibility without needing to dig into the website too deeply. GC On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 7:44 AM, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 Dec 2010, at 08:31, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I don't think the first screenshot should point to a development >>> application. It should point to user stuff. >> >> At least please give a counter-thesis. > > I agree with Riccardo here (it does happen sometimes!). The very first thing > that we want to show people is what they can do with GNUstep. Later, we want > to show them how they can do these things. Screenshots of themed user apps > show the what, shots of Gorm show the how. > > Most importantly, if we show developer apps then it gives the impression that > developer apps are all that we have - that GNUstep is used solely for > developing tools for developing with GNUstep. There are a lot of open source > projects that are like this, and we don't want to be lumped into that > category. > > Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote: >> >> Also think that the purpose of the project should not so directly be >> creating a free version of Cocoa but something that will survive on >> its own and have the Cocoa cloning as a supporting secondary purpose. > > I think this is also important. In Étoilé, we use quite a few things that > are GNUstep-specific. We want to reassure people that GNUstep is a capable > development environment in its own right, not just a Cocoa clone. > > David > > -- Sent from my Cray X1 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > -- Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc. yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell) _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
