Hey James, Yes I've seen it. The Milk theme is very pretty. I like minimalist themes that are simple and elegant. I'm looking forward to seeing a theme like it in GNUstep.
Yours, GC On Mon, Jul 6, 2026 at 4:36 AM James Carthew <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / Black Lotus, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com https://www.openhub.net/languages/objective_c
