> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Evan Laforge <[email protected]> wrote: >> Are there people who actually really like and care about themes? I'd >> personally prefer just a single hardcoded one that looks nice. > > The problem is that 'nice' is extremely subjective. Some people *hate* > gradients, others *require them*. Ditto with rounded corners, straight > lines, drop shadows, the color blue, stippling and anything else you can > imagine. That's why there are so many GTK themes. None of them is wildly
The vast majority of people use windows or the mac, and are told "like it or lump it". And they do, though it's probably mostly neither like nor lump but just not care. So the "hate" is a tempest in a teapot and the "require" is not really requirement. I know there's a cottage industry of people who crank out themes but I think they mostly do it for each other, are a tiny minority, and are probably never going to care about fltk anyway since hardly any apps use fltk. And yeah, I definitely agree nice is subjective, but I'd take that to mean the problem is unsolvable since it's just fashion and will always change. So unless you have the manpower to spend on elaborate customization engines, easiest route is to get up to "usable", incorporate some reasonable things that are not about to change, like antialiasing, and call it a day. There are enough things that are not fashion and are really requirements for some people, like non-latin IME, right-to-left, etc. But of course, as an open source project, people are free to spend their time how they like. I'm just saying what I would do were I the only person working on it :) _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
