Theme recycling was: Re: GUI without X11 / Artist Help

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am Dienstag, 08.02.05 um 20:00 Uhr schrieb Nicolas Roard:

> On 2005-02-08 18:07:13 +0000 jesse@jesseross.com wrote:
>
> > Also, apart from icons, is there a direction for the default GUI
> > interface? I saw some of the theming that will be/is available through
> > Camaelon -- has there been a clear consensus on keeping certain 
> > NEXTSTEP
> > elements or moving to a more Mac look (ie: horizontal menubar versus
> > vertical floating bar, scrollbar on left/right)? Any feedback on that
> > would be helpful for redesiging the default GUI.
>
> Well, the consus needs to be build, but I believe lots of people like 
> the vertical menu...
> although the "mac menu" style is nice when you don't have high 
> resolution...
> Scrollbars will likely stay where they are, but of course, as the menu 
> style, that easily
> modifiable via a gui bundle.

I think it would be great if Camaeleon would have support for some 
already existing theme formats, or if at least some converter would be 
available that transforms other themes into Camaeleon ones. This way it 
would be possible to access hundreds of existing themes like the ones 
for ShapeShifter ( http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/shapeshifter ) here:

http://www.macthemes.net/reviews/themes.php
http://www.resexcellence.com/themes/
http://www.maxthemes.com/themes/
http://www.xthemes.net/themes/gallery.php

or my favorite one:

http://www.macthemes.net/articles/insider/000107.php

and even a NeXT one:

http://swizcore.com/SS/next.php

and save us a lot of work this way.

> Cheers,
>
> --
> Nicolas Roard

Greets, Lars