On 10/06/2014 16:38, Jeff Hoogland wrote: > Is basically the feedback I get from non-E users most times. Thoughts on > this? > > Recent example -> > http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/27qt7k/bodhi_linux_300_rc1_released_ubuntu_1404_base/ >
Jeff, I feel the same way as those posters, just without the violence, insults and lets-rip-Jeff-a-new-one-coz-we-can attitude :-) Truth be told, most enlightenment themes out there are butt-ugly and amateurish. But enlightenment is a tool, it paints on the canvas, and it's very good at doing that. It can also only paint what the theme tells it to paint. Icons are the thing that does stand out the most - enlightenment's internal built-in icons are nice, but they are also very different from all the other application icons the user will have, it leads to an inconsistent look. I've learned to live with it, but really slick icons would be nice. GUI design is hard, really hard, and takes a fanatical attention to detail. I watch the web designers at work, sometimes they obsess about an element's position to *one* pixel! It does show in the results though. I think your main problem is that like a code lead, you can only work with the submissions you get and what you write yourself. You only get to work with themes that people submit (that one fellow's comment that you are the team lead and therefore.... is about as unhelpful as it gets), and good themes take a good artist. I'm no artist :-) I think if you want to address the uglyness of some themes, you'd need to get decent feedback from real artists who can point out aesthetic flaws in a constructive way. Random arb users on reddit is not where you will get that. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
