Agree, but I'll tell you my point. I love to port. Why? Because, first of all, I'm not an artist, but maybe a pretty good coder. So, I lack the imagination and the artistic skills to make pixmaps and etc. But also, I like to see wm makeups widespread. In my ideal world, there's going to be a huge meeting of GUI developers and everybody will agree on creating a standard for window customization, across all OS.
So, I will keep porting whatever. I'll try to port original ideas, not only common OS GUIs. But also, I'm open and if somebody has a good idea, but lacks time or skills to code, be welcome to send me mockups or whatever. I'll be happy to help. Cya! On Aug 8, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Toma wrote: > Hi all, > Now, I know raster is working on a new theme, and I know a lot of > people already love it, but its so far a lot of the same in terms of > whats already out there. (Please dont debate that on this thread!) And > I applaud him for keeping to the norm and keeping it simple, but EFL > is far more powerful than whats already in there. Im thinking about a > theme that does still keep a semi-traditional edge, but really pushes > the boundaries of UI, 'beautiful'-ness and originality. > > Here are some simple rules. > 1. Dont copy Mac. -Apple already done it. > 2. Dont copy Vista. -It sucks. :) > 3. Dont copy KDE4. -KDE already done it. > 4. (Should I even mention gnome?) -Sarcasm. > 5. Make sure its entirely usable by people. Half-wits dont generally > wander too far from gnome. :) > 6. Make the user say "Oh my. Thats something E17 can do? Im in love." > 7. K. I. S. S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) > > Youre probably wondering, thats all good and fine, but this means > nothing without screenshots. > So, Im asking you all for some input. Just some simple ideas, be it > for a check box, a window button, a slider, a background... whatever. > If you have any screenshots, or like the way some other theme already > does something, throw that in there too. But remember, "Originality" > is going to be key to this design experiment. I also would like to see > this come as a separate theme thats installed as default to show some > contrast in E design between rasters new one and this other that > hopefully we all make. > > Lets make E kick ass all over the place! > Toma. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
