2013 03:12:56 +0100
Subject: Re: GNUstep's default theme...
From: lpro...@gmail.com
CC: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
On 14 September 2013 20:53, Muhammad Hussein Nasrollahpour
iapplechocol...@me.com wrote:
Take a look at http://etoileos.com/downloads/. You can install it or
download
Hi Stefan.
On 09/12/13 15:46, Stefan Bidi wrote:
Tango is definitely free software! I'm not sure what the actual
license, though. A few years ago it was incorporated into the
freedesktop.org http://freedesktop.org effort
(http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library).
I will start
At the DevMeeting (and a bit since), Quentin and Eric have been working on
making the Aristo2 theme from Cappuccino (
http://www.cappuccino-project.org/aristo/ and
http://www.cappuccino-project.org/aristo/showcase/ ) work with GNUstep. I
think it's a nice choice, as it's clean, consistent,
Ricardo: Now that dbuskit exists, is it possible to make System Preferences
plugins for configuring Xrandr, pulseaudio, and network-manager? This would
make System Preferences useful for configuring the system. I've looked at
Etoile and there's a lot of project duplication. They have their own
On 14 September 2013 14:30, James Carthew jcart...@gmail.com wrote:
I've looked at Etoile
Has there ever been a public release, demo, beta or anything of Etoilé?
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Hi,
David Chisnall wrote:
At the DevMeeting (and a bit since), Quentin and Eric have been working on
making the Aristo2 theme from Cappuccino (
http://www.cappuccino-project.org/aristo/ and
http://www.cappuccino-project.org/aristo/showcase/ ) work with GNUstep. I
think it's a nice choice,
Hi,
On 09/14/13 15:30, James Carthew wrote:
Ricardo: Now that dbuskit exists, is it possible to make System
Preferences plugins for configuring Xrandr, pulseaudio, and
network-manager? This would make System Preferences useful for
configuring the system. I've looked at Etoile and there's a
On Sep 14, 2013, at 6:36 AM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On 14 September 2013 14:30, James Carthew jcart...@gmail.com wrote:
I've looked at Etoile
Has there ever been a public release, demo, beta or anything of Etoilé?
Take a look at http://etoileos.com/downloads/. You can install
On 14 September 2013 20:53, Muhammad Hussein Nasrollahpour
iapplechocol...@me.com wrote:
Take a look at http://etoileos.com/downloads/. You can install it or download
VirtualBox image.
Ah, OK, thanks for that.
Let me rephrase my question, then:
Is there a downloadable copy that is newer than
German,
I agree we should show GNUstep running with different themes. My current
concern is the default theme when the user has no themes installed. Showing
the old, dated, NeXT theme doesn't help us because people associate it with the
old technology.
Allow me to be clear… I like the NeXT
Also, we need a small GNUstep's configuration guide for new users. And a
FAQ, at website not at wiki, with questions like: I use KDE but GNUstep
looks alien ...
Germán.
On 2013-09-11 23:52:09 -0600 Lundberg, Johannes
johan...@brilliantservice.co.jp wrote:
Yes, I totally agree. Maybe put up
And we finally should fix the cursor issues. These are more evident with
in-window menu.
Germán.
On 2013-09-12 00:03:49 -0600 Germán Arias germanandre...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, we need a small GNUstep's configuration guide for new users. And a
FAQ, at website not at wiki, with questions like:
Am 12.09.2013 um 08:03 schrieb Germán Arias:
Also, we need a small GNUstep's configuration guide for new users. And a
FAQ, at website not at wiki, with questions like: I use KDE but GNUstep
looks alien ...
Would it be possible to detect the desktop that is running and auto-adapt the
default
This is something I had thought of doing years ago, but it was shot down.
The only thing I don't like about it is that it requires all of those
themes to be compiled and installed by default. That doesn't rule it out
as a possible solution, though.
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Dr. H.
Hi,
On 09/12/13 07:49, Germán Arias wrote:
On 2013-09-11 23:29:07 -0600 Gregory Casamento greg.casame...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think the default theme is the problem. The problem is that the users
don't
see, at website, screenshots of gnustep running with other themes or in other
desktops.
Hi,
On 09/12/13 07:29, Gregory Casamento wrote:
I've often felt as though our default look causes people to have a bad
first impression of GNUstep.
First impressions and out of the box experience have a huge impact.
Many people make the mistake of believing we are ONLY OpenStep based
on the
I want to make it clear that I'm not referring to themes which change colors or
do simple tricks to change the appearance of the GUI. It has to go further
than that.
Gregory Casamento
greg.casame...@gmail.com
Open Logic Corporation, President/CEO
GNUstep Lead Developer
On Sep 12, 2013, at
Hi,
On 09/12/13 11:28, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Now I did a test, I searched google theming with bing. Looking at
the images, we do get screenshots! Our main screenshot is a dark
themed image... we have blog posts. Thus it is fine. [First point:
check how things really are, not how things
I guess I'll put my 2 cents in...
To me, the look itself isn't that outdated. Personally, even on Windows, I
use the Classic theme because of the well defined edges on GUI
artifacts. That said, I do think the default GNUstep theme needs an
update. The gray is too dark, the icons do not follow
More apps, more usability, more desktop environment.the biggest
dealbreakers for me are webkit, and lack of tools in system
preferences.app, can't set monitor, keyboard, mouse, sound, network
options. Add those sections to system preferences and it'll start feeling
like a complete desktop
Hi,
On 09/12/13 14:26, Stefan Bidi wrote:
I guess I'll put my 2 cents in...
To me, the look itself isn't that outdated. Personally, even on
Windows, I use the Classic theme because of the well defined edges
on GUI artifacts. That said, I do think the default GNUstep theme
needs an update.
Tango is definitely free software! I'm not sure what the actual license,
though. A few years ago it was incorporated into the freedesktop.orgeffort (
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library).
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Riccardo Mottola
riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote:
Hi,
I've often felt as though our default look causes people to have a bad
first impression of GNUstep.
First impressions and out of the box experience have a huge impact. Many
people make the mistake of believing we are ONLY OpenStep based on the look
alone without really looking at the API.
Does
On 2013-09-11 23:29:07 -0600 Gregory Casamento greg.casame...@gmail.com wrote:
I've often felt as though our default look causes people to have a bad
first impression of GNUstep.
First impressions and out of the box experience have a huge impact. Many
people make the mistake of believing we
Yes, I totally agree. Maybe put up more screenshots of GNUstep apps running
in different styles on different systems?
Johannes Lundberg
Project leader and lead developer of Mirama OS (previously Viking OS)
My blog http://brilliantobjc.blogspot.com
Mirama homepage
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