Re: Weird and wonderful visual styling of applications

2007-03-01 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 01:23 +, Alex Jones wrote: As much as I applaud any effort to depart from uninspired default styling, if we want visual wow, we should try to make it happen in a consistent fashion, and then maybe we can make it look even better! I hope you don't mean everyone should

Re: Weird and wonderful visual styling of applications

2007-03-01 Thread John Stowers
In the specific case of RB, Gossip and Evolution, it seems that people want to prettify treeviews for this kind of thing, assigning specific visual style to elements that hold different meaning (e.g. first level heading, second level heading, etc.). Perhaps we should come up with a way to do

Re: Plugins vs Extensions

2007-03-01 Thread Reinout van Schouwen
Hi Steve, Op dinsdag 20-02-2007 om 11:21 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Steve Frécinaux: One way to standardize would be in epiphany to merge the concept of extensions and plugins (the former are similar to the other apps plugins, while the latter are external players like flash). This would

Re: Weird and wonderful visual styling of applications

2007-03-01 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 01:23 +, Alex Jones wrote: Hi list (Disclaimer: I'm completely clueless, so all of this may well be bullshit - put me right!) I've noticed that more and more apps are departing from stock styling and implementing some more adventurous visual appearances,