On 04/11/2017 10:46 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> wrote: >> On 04/11/2017 12:25 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> >>> wrote: >>>> On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 12:09:08 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri >>>> <barbi...@gmail.com> >>>> said: >>>> >>>> Is it an old need? At least on OSX and modern Windows apps are encouraged >>>> to >>>> fit in and look "standard" and users want it there... :) >>> >>> more and more apps move to individual looks, this happened before >>> (remember Nero CD Burner and the likes? Winamp?) but after smartphones >>> almost no app wants to use the "system look and feel". Each app wants >>> their own brand, theme and impact... >> >> Yet us users wish that all apps still look consistent .... Designers >> have been given too much power they should have less :-P > > not sure, this is only good when there are no UI designers, then > engineers can pick some stuff to suck-less [tm]... being there, done > that... if you google my name in kde-usability I used to push for that > during kde3 days 2003-2004 or so... > > good for most open source projects, were we lack designers... however, > commercial users do have them and what we do just make their lives > harder. >
well yeah in terms of Linux desktop apps its best when 1 designer creates a theme and everything just works with it and looks unified. (more themes are coming soon) -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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