Ivan, I think you're spot on with this assessment.
GC [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5&;> Sender notified by Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5&;> 11/19/19, 07:14:52 AM On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 6:49 AM Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 23:40 Sergii Stoian <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Plus themes support bloats the GNUstep codebase. I understand that the >> initial idea was to attract more users/developers, but… It’s not working. >> > > Have you guessed why it's not working? > > Users who would be attracted by a different theme are not aware there are > different themes or how to set them up. > > A solution is to ship a "gnustep-recommended-config" package as a > Recommends of the libgnustep-gui package. Speaking in Debian terms; same > goes for other OSes. > > This package would pull in a theme and a systemwide plist configuring a > modernized theme etc. > > Today, if a KDE user born in 2001 installs a GNUstep program (they may not > care about the rest of the environment), the UI is totally out of sync with > their expectations. And if they go through the effort to explore an entire > environment, they get greeted by the 90s — whether they want it or not. > > Am I misreading expectations of a prospective user? > > I mean, these are my expectations, and I'm born in the late 80s. I love > e.g. System 7 look. NEXT look is decent to me (but just decent). I'm > personally around for the programming language and the frameworks, not for > the default theme. > > Nextspace seems cool and I should get around to trying it out. > >> -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com http://ind.ie/phoenix/
