Thank you Rich. :D I haven't pressed you as I know you're travelling. But when you're available we'd love you to get involved hands-on.
Adam. On Nov 30, 2015 12:21 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >I would very much like to see our interface changed > >to something everyone can be in love with. > > Nobody disagrees ... Once we have that, let's change. > > Anecdotal evidence is great to tell us that many people hate the UI, but > is useless in telling us what a new UI should be, and concentrating on > complaints about individual UI elements is actively harmful ... A beautiful > new UI needs a designer with vision to produce something strong and > consistent and functional. > > Riccardo is right that the behavior of our default menus is NEWer than > that of the ones currently used by mainstream interfaces, so anyone > complaining that they are old obviously has trouble expressing themselves > (or possibly understanding what it actually is that they don't like) ... We > should ignore such comments about individual features, and instead provide > a few well designed themes, and see what find favour. > > I have always tried to do what I can to help people working on such > themes, and I believe our theme support is now fairly good and will improve > as people produce/use particular interfaces/themes. > > A PiOS distribution will be a great thing for GNUstep as a test for > smoothly integrated UI on a single reference platform. That will be a > great starting point for a more general Debian based reference system with > which we can showcase different themes. > > I'm therefore willing to offer to help the Pi development any way I can, > and I encourage other developers to help solve/fix any problems with it too. > > Sorry if that sounds a bit weak considering that I'm travelling for the > next few weeks, but from mid/late December I will be home and able to code > again. > Sent from my android device.
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