Re: Look & feel, future plans

[Alexander Malmberg]

> Anyway, there are three main "themes" to this thread:
[snip]
> * Themes
> Anything which changed pixel dimensions of widgets is a no-no given the
> OpenStep approach to GUI layout.  Being able to change colours, textures
> and gradients on the buttons etc. is a fairly minor gain relative to the
> recoding effort required to implement it (let alone the gain in API cruft)

This happens only if people insist on hard-coding coordinates for
widgets. Fortunately, GNUstep has GSTable (and GSVbox/GSHbox), so it's
fully possible to write autolayouting apps. LuserNET has (iirc) no
hardcoded coordinates except default window positions/sizes. This has
many advantages, advanced themes is one, and this is (at least IMHO) the
Right Way of doing things.

- Alexander Malmberg