Which theme are you using? A modern theme is sorely needed. On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 8:19 AM, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 Nov 2015, at 09:41, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Perhaps the best card deck is covered by GNOME/GTK, since even if not >> "gnome" other GTK application blend nicely in. So for example You can have >> Xfce, then Firefox, GIMP and Inkscape blend quite well in. No real native >> Office suite, but for the end-user OpenOffice will fit in. >> >> On GNUstep, because of its distinctive design, an application like >> OpenOffice sticks out immediately. >> >> Perhaps we could do with some "ports" similar to the Mac ones, to have a >> more integrated look. It could be perhaps done for Firefox/Seamonkey and >> OpenOffice. With our menu subsystem, app bundles and some integration it >> would be nice. >> >> Without, it would be a bad advertisement, like the original "GNUstep LiveCD" >> ended up to be. > > I agree. The FreeBSD GNUstep packages include a lot of things, but you need > to do a lot of tinkering to make them integrate even vaguely with typical > environments. For the ones that we use in the lab, I’ve configured a more > modern looking theme[1] and the in-window menus. With this, the apps still > look fairly distinctive, but work quite well and people don’t complain. > > The problem is the difficulty of setting this globally. I’ve not been able > to find a good way of setting these globally at all. The symlink approach to > making tools appear in bin/ doesn’t work with rpaths, so I have to manually > replace those symlinks with shell scripts anyway and have been able to > shoehorn things into that script. This works well for a single application > on a single machine, but is not really a scalable solution. > > I would love to be able to ship a port of the GNOME theme that, on > installation, would allow GNUstep applications to look and feel like GNOME > applications *for all users of the system with no additional configuration*. > Without this, it requires *huge* buy-in from potential developers: yes > GNUstep may be great, but it’s not great enough to persuade your users to > abandon their favourite DE and existing software. > > David > > [1] With the default GNUstep theme, people assume that the applications are > written with tk. It doesn’t look distinct and NeXT-like to most people, it > just looks old. > > -- Sent from my PDP-11 >
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