Yes, either an official competition, or simply a themes site that's linked directly from the GWT home page. Anyone could submit themes, and people could rate them. If some of them are exceptionally good they could be integrated into the toolkit...
On Jan 29, 10:12 pm, Joe Cole <profilercorporat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Agree entirely. Unfortunately it seems most gwt sites don't have ui > designers. > Perhaps the gwt team should run a competition to create an awesome > default theme that has to work with the sample apps. > I know a few designers who would give it a go. > > On Jan 30, 9:46 am, Jeff Schnitzer <j...@infohazard.org> wrote: > > > > > Actually, I think there is a lot of merit in this feature request. > > > Anyone *can* make a GWT-based UI beautiful with the right application > > of CSS. As with any attractive UI, it takes a fair bit of work and > > know-how. GWT comes with a set of themes already, but it's fairly > > clear that creating a refined piece of art was not high on the > > priority list of the team. > > > I posit that having a beautiful stock appearance and good-looking > > samples would extend the adoption and reach of GWT ten-fold. I think > > a lot of developers, when picking a client framework, simply look at > > the samples and eventually stop at one where they say "I want my app > > to look like that." Nobody wants their apps to look like the GWT > > samples - and while they don't have to, it's not totally clear unless > > you've already invested in the learning process. > > > GXT looks pretty, but that's about all I can say about it. I've said > > this on another thread, but actually using it is awful. It has its > > own layout system which does not play nice with GWT's layouts. You > > can't just buy GXT and expect your app to suddenly look better. > > > BTW, I am speaking from experience... my learning process went from > > jQueryUI, to ExtJS, to GXT, to plain-old GWT with my own custom > > controls and CSS. I would have saved a lot of time and abortive > > projects if I'd gone straight to vanilla GWT... and I have to admit > > that aesthetics played a major role in my choices. > > > Jeff > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:35 AM, mariyan nenchev > > > <nenchev.mari...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > There is no need gwt widgets to be "beautiful". They are easy customizable > > > with css. > > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Paul Grenyer <paul.gren...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > >> Why not just use GXT then? > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Marcos Alcantara <marc...@gmail.com> > > >> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:19:28 > > >> To: Google Web Toolkit<google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com> > > >> Subject: Re: Feature Request - Improve Visual Look > > > >> Couldn´t agree more. > > > >> GWT is great as whole and so flexible, it hurts. > > > >> Although, the core widgets could have a better visual appearance to > > >> make them as good as Vaadin's or ext's but without the "desktop > > >> application" appeal. > > > >> =) > > > >> Marcos Alcantara > > > >> On 28 jan, 16:27, Simon <dciphercomput...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > Hi > > > >> > I think some of the most aesthetically pleasing UI components can be > > >> > found in extJS so I would like to suggest that GWT further improve the > > >> > visual appearance of their widgets. > > > >> > Simon > > > >> -- > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > >> "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > >> To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > >> google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > >> For more options, visit this group at > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > > >> -- > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > >> "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > >> To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > >> google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > >> For more options, visit this group at > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
