Lancer wrote: > Patrick Gallagher wrote: > >> or Grey Modern - very nice skin >> >> hopefully themes will become more abundant once the API freeze happens >> at 1.0 >> >> Patrick > > > More abundant?! ...Oh no please! Have you seen that thing which name is > "WOOD", his author dare to call that a Mozilla Theme...
Yes! Yes! Yes! Full ACK! Skins shouldn't be a playground for hobby artists. If any possible, skins should reflect rock solid knowledge of UI design! If misused as a more-or-less Eye-catcher-stuff with misusing the basics of UI design, bad skins are more a pain for daily use than a help. And either the "wooden skin" as "little mozilla" I call more a pain for the eyes than a good product of UI design. With that kind of stuff the new Mozilla/Netscape browser *will* remain in a non-professional corner. Why do Apple, SUN and all the other big companies have an eye on usability research centers and studies? To make unprofessional skins? I doupt that. As a non-such-professional author you *are* able to make a good skin. But you shouldn't do it without any basics in UI design. Before making any step in creating a new skin read, learn, teach yourself in the basics of UI design, improve your skills. The web is full of public stuff and specifications, that can help (to begin with the published stuff by Apple, SUN, Microsoft, GNOME, KDE,...). And only maybe then -- publish a skin to the world that is so much used and so important as the one of a Browser Interface! > And no... I hope that no happen, I am full with all the trash generated > by Winamp 2.x Also full ACK. See above. Maybe OT and f'up to n.p.m.themes or n.p..m.ui -- # Sierk Bornemann | Germany # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # http://home.t-online.de/home/Sierk.Bornemann/
