On 27 September 2013 17:01, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: > rest assured that i will make everything possible to have this theme remain > (although it is imperfect in several details). Also i will battle that it > will remain the default. I make some small tweaks to the default from time > to time. > > Others have different opinions though and also, again, others have different > uses for GNUstep. > > This is why I, the most strenuous defender of the NeXT look, started to make > themes and support their existence! > > Others might need a theme because their setup is different, because they > want to integrate, because they have a different display than yours. > > I other words, provided that the default one remains or gets improved, how > does the availability of themes impact and disturbs you? if you don't need > them, don't use them! > But if there are themes that other people like, what's bad about it? > It may attract new uses, new apps, new developers which will help to improve > the environment even for you, using the "classic" theme. > > *What are your concerns?* > > When I was young and foolish, I installed themes on my Mac classic. Usually, > they lasted one day and I often went to a default look (or actually, a theme > closely to the default). However I liked the freedom to play with them. > Sometimes it is just about to "know" that there is some freedom that makes > you happy, even if you don't exploit it.
:¬) Well said! (And yes, I played with Mac OS 8/9 themes too, and I never kept any of them for long.) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
