Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Jorge Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> If you think so, why don't make things like Apple E17
> (http://exchange.enlightenment.org/theme/show/394) better? I could
> look and behave much better by being more strictly like apple's
> version, today it looks like an amateur rip off (Yes, it can be made
> even better than real macos, but it's not even at the same level)
>   
Well don't copy it too much, Apple, as well as MS, have sent letters to 
people who have copied it too closely.  So this is the best reason to 
stay away from such themes, could be a big time waste if you can't 
distribute it.


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