You obviously haven't tried TabLayoutPanel. They may be perfect for *you* right now, but I'm willing to bet that for every one of you there are ten developers that skip GWT and go with JQueryUI or ExtJS or Dojo because "my app will look better". Most engineers don't have great CSS and design skills, don't underestimate the draw of aesthetics.
An official competition to produce a new theme seems like a good idea. Or Google could throw some money at an outside design firm. I'll bet there is a ready market for some sort of commercial product here, like GXT done right. I'd pay for something that looks good and integrates well with GWT layouts. Jeff On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Cristian Nicanor Babula <[email protected]> wrote: > The widgets are perfect how they are now. They fit perfectly in both > websites and enterprise applications. Besides, a fancy design is not always > a good design. I always use the simple "googlish" style in both websites and > web apps and the customers are very pleased with the results. > > On 01/30/2010 03:31 AM, Simon wrote: >> >> That maybe true but not all programmer are great visual designers not >> to mention the time it takes to get it all looking great. All I am >> saying is the default look should be much more visually appealing. >> After all Google has spent a lot of time optimizing the javascript >> ouput so why not put some more time into a high quality polished >> visual look so that everyone benefits. >> >> Simon >> >> On Jan 29, 2:35 pm, mariyan nenchev<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> There is no need gwt widgets to be "beautiful". They are easy >>> customizable >>> with css. >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Paul >>> Grenyer<[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Why not just use GXT then? >>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Marcos Alcantara<[email protected]> >>>> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:19:28 >>>> To: Google Web Toolkit<[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: Feature Request - Improve Visual Look >>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Couldn´t agree more. >>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> GWT is great as whole and so flexible, it hurts. >>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Although, the core widgets could have a better visual appearance to >>>> make them as good as Vaadin's or ext's but without the "desktop >>>> application" appeal. >>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> =) >>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Marcos Alcantara >>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> On 28 jan, 16:27, Simon<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi >>>>> >>> >>> >>>>> >>>>> I think some of the most aesthetically pleasing UI components can be >>>>> found in extJS so I would like to suggest that GWT further improve the >>>>> visual appearance of their widgets. >>>>> >>> >>> >>>>> >>>>> Simon >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups >>>> "Google Web Toolkit" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> >>>> [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%2Bunsubs >>>> [email protected]> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups >>>> "Google Web Toolkit" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> >>>> [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%2Bunsubs >>>> [email protected]> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. >>>> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
