Did you see the Milk theme? The point of it was mostly recreating: https://www.maxrudberg.com/themes.html Ink is just the current theme that I was running. I am still developing Ambrosia, I've just got some other apps I'm developing at the same time. Rik.theme is also supported for a more Mac-like theme. I might look at Cappucino at some point, the biggest issue with Ambrosia right now is cleaning up the Wayland backend. It's still missing a lot compared to X11.
On Mon, 6 Jul 2026 at 12:08, Gregory Casamento <[email protected]> wrote: > Colby, > > Interesting side note... I briefly worked with them. Not open-sourcing > Atlas was a huge mistake. I'm glad that Cappuccino is still around. One > thing I had considered doing back then was creating a way to export to .cib > (the format used by Atlas) so that people could create these files for the > Cappuccino apps. I'm not sure how prevalent Cappuccino is, so I can't > confirm whether this is still worth pursuing. > > Yours, GC > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM Colby Russell <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I thought the earlier Ambrosia screenshots showed promise. >> >> Some number of years ago, a startup called 280 North created two >> noteworthy >> applications: a slideshow creator and an Interface Builder clone called >> Atlas. >> (They also released the Cappuccino framework, which was basically a Cocoa >> clone for browser-based apps. Tracking down the Atlas demo videos are >> well >> worth the time.) >> >> They were eventually acquired, but the Atlas codebase unfortunately never >> open-sourced, and then it disappeared. However, Cappuccino is still >> around >> and has always been LGPL. >> >> Before the acquisition, they'd used some of their startup funding to >> contract >> with a professional design agency to create a theme for Cappuccino called >> Aristo. >> >> - <https://www.cappuccino.dev/aristo/> >> - <https://github.com/cappuccino/aristo> >> >> I heartily recommend that you take wholesale from Aristo and make it the >> default theme for Ambrosia (even if you yourself don't find it to your >> taste >> and configure your personal machine to something more in line with the >> screenshot you've included here). One of the biggest factors in getting >> people to be excited about a project like GNUStep/Ambrosia and a >> willingness >> to try it is providing an immediately attractive and accessible >> out-of-the-box >> experience. >> >> Xamarin also paid for an overhaul of MonoDevelop that resulted in a new >> theme >> before they were acquired Microsoft. I suggest borrowing from that >> work, too, >> to fill in the gaps (e.g. use the original iconset that the MonoDevelop >> theme >> used before they switched to flat UI). >> >> -- >> Colby Russell >> >> >> > > -- > Gregory Casamento > GNUstep Lead Developer / Black Lotus, Principal Consultant > http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com > https://www.openhub.net/languages/objective_c >
