I think that Apple did not licensed Mac's look-and-feel yet I think we shouldn't do the same but we could go that way. Apple did not invent X Window System but they use it, anyway :).
To be honest, I understand what you want to say but I propose that Community do couple versions of themes (default, home, corporate, developer,....). For me, as a developer each segment of screen is important, since I have to deal with several programs/windows at once. For example, I do not like dashboard since I have to clean my screen and then to point-and-click to the desired icon. It is pretty much waste of time. Also I do not like to use mouse/touch-pad because it is faster by keyboard shortcuts. I belong to the sort of people that like to write command to the computer since I could express myself better than with mouse. But this is just my opinion where I want to tell you that for different groups we could develop different themes with SUN/OpenSolaris taste, too. Uros ---------------------------------------- > Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:37:06 +0100 > From: calum.ben...@sun.com > To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE end-of-life plans > > > On 18 Aug 2009, at 15:20, Uros Nedic wrote: > >> Maybe, you could consider changing Mac4Lin theme regarding >> better integration in OpenSolaris, and of course polishing >> it to look better than Macs one. > > I think Apple would probably have some interesting words to say to Sun > if we went that route :) > >> To conclude, i think that OpenSolaris need better default >> theme than Nimbus. > > > I certainly think we could do a better job of providing additional > themes and backgrounds in pkg format (and that's something it ought to > be quite easy for the OpenSolaris community to help out with). > > As for the default theme, it's always going to have to be something > reasonably neutral in style and colour, so as to be usable and > acceptable out-of-the-box for the widest range of home and corporate > users (many of whom have quite conservative tastes!), whilst still > reflecting certain elements of Sun's branding. I've no doubt the > visual design team will continue to refine it in subsequent releases, > but I'm not sure we'll be seeing anything completely new anytime soon. > > Cheeri, > Calum. > > -- > CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland > mailto:calum.ben...@sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team > http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 > > Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _________________________________________________________________ More than messages–check out the rest of the Windows Live™. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
