On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 at 9:09:09 +0200, Martin Dietze wrote: > > This just reminds me of something I had wanted to raise for a > while. I saw this on the screenshots and I've seen this in > practically every distro which ships WM - the default settings > are far from attractive. WM has nice themability, there are > awesome backgrounds etc., still the default WM theme is so > low-fi that people will just not go for trying it. > > To us this may not matter much as we've all configured our > desktops to something nice, but for newbies there should be a > decent pre-configuration to make it attractive (think of the > way Ubuntu pre-configures Gnome, that makes a difference). > > Maybe we can agree on some modest but attractive set of colours, > a background image and preconfigured dock to check into the > source tree.
Yeah, I agree with you. I've just updated the #next branch with some changes on the default look. I made the changes according to my own taste -- I think it's better than the current default :-) -- but that won't please everyone of course. But what we can't do is not do anything. So I changed the look to suit my taste at least and if people have other patches we would have more choices to decide. [ In case you want to test, backup your ~/GNUstep and run wmaker.inst again. ] Now I really would like to get rid of the old menus and use wmgenmenu instead. I've just got bitten by the "/home/mawa" path hardcoded in the German menus while testing the new look, and that really sucks. I am also thinking about having a few (three or four) must-have dockapps bundled in wmaker-crm. Quite frankly, if we expect people to use WM we need to have a easy way to mount stuff (wmvolman) and a way to manage applications which require a system tray (wmsystemtray). WM really needs these two dockapps to be usable by everyone. They should be installed by default! -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
