> Subject: Re: Kickstarter was not successful... but it did help things... > From: richardfrithmacdon...@gmail.com > Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:33:47 +0000 > To: greg.casame...@gmail.com > CC: m...@jump-ing.de; discuss-gnustep@gnu.org > > > On 23 Nov 2013, at 08:48, Gregory Casamento <greg.casame...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm in agreement with this. I've been saying this for many years. I would > > like to call for a consensus on this matter. Are there any dissenting > > opinions to changing the default look? > > Yes! > > Show me the theme you want to switch to, and then we can talk about it (I'm > easily persuaded if something makes sense). I would have thought that an iOS > style theme might be popular. > But until we have at least one fully working alternative theme to switch to > (or better, a number of themes to select from), discussing switching is > nothing but a waste of time. > > Actually, even the argument that the *default* theme puts people off is > really nonsense ... if people see something that puts them off, is is what > they *see* that puts them off, not whether what they see is *default*. > > Put screenshots of GNUstep looking 'sexier' on the website. Make them more > prominent than the existing theme by all means (eg. put them first and > bigger). To find out which works best (ie is most popular) we could have > some sort of click-through or download counter.
I'm pretty sure sure that this one was proposed in the past: http://www.cappuccino-project.org/aristo/showcase/ It looks clean, simple, no frills; the only problem is that it looks similar to cocoa, but does this really matter? It also can be studied as a base to start one from scratch Alex (Slex), cheers
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