I think you underestimate both just how much one can do
with such a "simple" customization (especially when one starts
to consider other possible gadgets and modules), and how much
people like to share things they create and engage in.> I agree with Jeff. > > > BUT... > > TLDR: > If there's other people that doesn't have programming skill big enough > to spend them on E core developing (bugs, E20, etc etc) like me, but > want to create theme, maybe we shold try to create a project togheter? > > "If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. You have my sword..." > We need someone that create a good layout (a designer?) > > "...and you have my bow..." > a couple of E coder (Simotek? Stephan from relighted? Someone else?) > > "...and my axe!" > and someone that know GTK or QT (is there anybody out there?). > > Try to make a call to arm. > Of course the few things I know about E theme, I'm glad to give for the > project :) > > ___ > > NO, I WANT ALL THE STUPID DUMA'S THOUGHTS > > I agree with Jeff. > Changing gadget layout, wallpaper, icon themes are things that an user > can do and can't make a distro unique. > It's just a simple and minimum customization. > > New Enlightenment themes it's an important focus, but I suppose we have > to admit some things: > * Feel the taste. It's stupid and I don't like to follow fashion taste, > but users do this: why on blogs ElementaryOS, QuartzOS or Papyrus are > mentioned a lot? Because they use a stupid flat cool design (like > Material design) and do nothing different from their father distro. So > now people like this and, unfortunately, most of the distro follow this > taste: also the Ubuntu themes have "flatter" widgets than before. E Dark > themes with the high bevel looks very old and people troll the web how > ugly is. > > * The third graphics library: maybe it's only a paranoid of mine, but > GTK and QT now uses automagically the same theme, so users don't find > big differences when they use Skype (QT) or Gedit (GTK). E with the few > application looks in all the system different and not unified. Finally > we have a Dark GTK theme, but we have to recognise that all the theme > created need a GTK (or QT) theme (blingbling, black&white, detour, > darkness), or users don't use it. So a theme developer should know not > only the ELM/EDJE, but alsto the GTK2 and css for GTK3. Or we are forced > to create port (like Radiance or Klak theme)... and the web trolls E > because it follow a look of a distro they don't like. > > I often asking myself "Why I don't create a new theme? Completely new!" > but then I answer me: "Man, I can't develop ALSO the GTK 3, because I > don't know css and I don't know all the new widget they create and thei > exception", so I only recompile old themes like OpenGEU's ones and other > crappy things I've done on DeviantART. > I love blingbling theme and I want to create ELM part of it for E19, but > it's something needed? Someone use this? Could attract new user to E? > > If there's other people that doesn't have programming skill big enough > to spend them on E core developing (bugs, E20, etc etc) like me, but > want to create theme, maybe we shold try to create a project togheter? > > "If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. You have my sword..." > We need someone that create a good layout (a designer?) > > "...and you have my bow..." > a couple of E coder (Simotek? Stephan from relighted? Someone else?) > > "...and my axe!" > and someone that know GTK or QT (is there anybody out there?). > > Try to make a call to arm. > Of course the few things I know about E theme, I'm glad to give for the > project :) > > Bye! > Duma > > Il giorno dom, 22/02/2015 alle 21.37 +1000, David Seikel ha scritto: > >> I'm just responding to this bit. >> >> On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 17:13:16 +1030 Simon <si...@simotek.net> wrote: >> >> >>> As a theme designer about the only thing that wasn't possible in e19 >>> was semi transparent windows but i asked nicely and it will be >>> possible with e20. >>> >> Semi transparent windows has been possible for quite some time in E, I >> use them all the time. There are various colours that can be tweaked. >> I Personally like my unfocused windows to be semi transparent, so I >> tweaked "Composite Focus-out Color"'s Object colour. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
