Ok, thanks for the overwhelming suggestions to use the clearlooks theme - will checkout svn and try it.
Regards, On 21/12/05, Alexander Reiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > have you already tried: export MONO_THEME=clearlooks > this looks great. > > /alex > > Am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2005 13:35 schrieb Vladimir Lushnikov: > > Hi, > > > > I finally got around to seeing the WinForms implementation in Linux. > > And even when exporting the "nice" theme (export MONO_THEME=nice) - > > let's face it, Winforms currently looks awful. If an example is > > required, then take a look at > > http://www.vladsharp.com/images/prog/winforms_look.png > > > > But enough complaining. How can it be made better? I don't have any > > clue on implementation details, but since WinForms is a canvas-based > > implementation, I don't see any reason why it couldn't look as good, > > or better, than, say, Swing applications in Java. > > (http://www.vladsharp.com/images/prog/swing_look.png) I don't even > > know Swing that well, but I do know it looks much better that (e.g.) > > the default forms look in Firefox on Linux. Why can't Linux look good? > > Well, there are toolkits to change to make the default look look good. > > But why can't Mono's Windows.Forms implementation look good? Yes, it > > might take time to get a decent look, but can it not be done? > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > Vladimir "Vlad#" Lushnikov > > http://www.vladsharp.com - Poetry, programming: all in one day's blog > > > > -- > --------------------- > Alexander Reiter > Allentsteigerstr. 11 > A-3910 Zwettl > Tel.: 02822 / 51657 > --------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Mono-winforms-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list > -- Vladimir "Vlad#" Lushnikov http://www.vladsharp.com - Poetry, programming: all in one day's blog
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