Re: [GNC-dev] Gtk and themes

2018-10-22 Thread cicko
Adrien Monteleone-2 wrote > In the meantime, making the app work correctly is certainly more > important, as is re-working the code base to eventually facilitate a move > to an MVC pattern that might facilitate easier visual customization, or at > least more native platform integration to remove

Re: [GNC-dev] Gtk and themes

2018-10-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Oct 19, 2018, at 9:38 AM, cicko wrote: > > > My point, on the other hand, would be - the users want customizations and > that won't change anytime soon. And you can confirm that simply by > considering the amount of questions on this list referring to fonts, > spacing, colors, sizes,

Re: [GNC-dev] Gtk and themes

2018-10-19 Thread D via gnucash-devel
While it is true that many users on Gnucash lists bemoan the latest theme selections, I agree with Geert, John, and the blogger that the tendency is away from such individualization. I am reminded of the wonders of dot matrix printers way back when; there was an ecstatic enthusiasm for all the

Re: [GNC-dev] Gtk and themes

2018-10-19 Thread cicko
Geert Janssens-4 wrote >> Well, I'm fairly confident that it is exactly the opposite. Just looking >> at >> trends in mobile apps tells me that clearly the users want to customize >> the >> apps to their preferences, mostly visual, rather than to have "more, >> better >> app" (whatever that

Re: [GNC-dev] Gtk and themes

2018-10-19 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 19, 2018, at 6:25 AM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op vrijdag 19 oktober 2018 09:43:14 CEST schreef cicko: >> Thanks a lot for the link, Geert. >> Unfortunately, I think the root of the problem is this: "If given a choice >> between customization and more, better apps, I’m confident

Re: [GNC-dev] Gtk and themes

2018-10-19 Thread Geert Janssens
Op vrijdag 19 oktober 2018 09:43:14 CEST schreef cicko: > Thanks a lot for the link, Geert. > Unfortunately, I think the root of the problem is this: "If given a choice > between customization and more, better apps, I’m confident the majority of > people would prefer the latter." > > Well, I'm

Re: [GNC-dev] Gtk and themes

2018-10-19 Thread cicko
Thanks a lot for the link, Geert. Unfortunately, I think the root of the problem is this: "If given a choice between customization and more, better apps, I’m confident the majority of people would prefer the latter." Well, I'm fairly confident that it is exactly the opposite. Just looking at

[GNC-dev] Gtk and themes

2018-10-15 Thread Geert Janssens
Recently a big debate has started on Gtk circles on whether or not Gtk should be themable. I know on this list we have discussed theming regularly in the context of GnuCash. So I thought to share this opinion piece by Thobias Bernard: