Re: Kickstarter was not successful... but it did help things...

[David Chisnall]

I gave a talk last week with a demo and I used the Narcissus theme.  Someone 
else in the audience commented that they'd implemented something similar, but 
'it was in tk so it looked ugly'.  It was the first time I'd given a talk 
involving GNUstep and:

- Not felt I had to apologise for the appearance
- Not had anyone comment negatively on the appearance
- Had someone compare the appearance positively to something els

So huge amounts of thanks to Eric for making a polished theme that actually 
looks nice and works well.  

We still have some issues with theming though.  In the app I demoed, I have 
some quite ugly code for selecting a shade of green that is visible on a scroll 
view.  The default theme has a dark background, Nesedah and Narcissus have a 
white background, so the default [NSColor greenColor], which is very bright, is 
visible on the default theme but completely invisible with themes.  It would be 
nice to have a simple standard way of getting default NSColor values that 
worked on the themes.  I wonder if there's any code that depends on greenColor 
actually being 0,ff,0 - if not, then just having the theme define greenColor 
(and redColor and so on) as darker shades would probably be sensible.

David

On 24 Nov 2013, at 01:11, Eric Wasylishen <ewasylishen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> We haven't packaged them for release yet, but in October I worked on
> the two Étoilé themes (designed by Jesse Ross) and they are now
> reasonably complete. I attached some screenshots, compare with the
> original mockup at:
> http://jesseross.com/clients/gnustep/ui/concepts/23/camaelon_nesedah.png
> 
> If you want to try them out, check out the following subversion URL's:
> 
> svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/etoile/trunk/Etoile/Themes/Narcissus.theme
> svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/etoile/trunk/Etoile/Themes/Nesedah.theme
> 
> No compilation needed, place them in your ~/GNUstep/Themes/ directory
> and activate with "defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSTheme
> Nesedah.theme". They'll require the latest version of GNUstep gui from
> svn.
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric
> 
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Riccardo Mottola
> <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/23/13 18:40, Slex Sangiuliano wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure sure that this one was proposed in the past:
>> 
>> http://www.cappuccino-project.org/aristo/showcase/
>> 
>> It looks clean, simple, no frills; the only problem is that it looks similar
>> to cocoa, but does this really matter?
>> 
>> Well, to me more than cocoa, it looks more like a web-app.
>> 
>> It also can be studied as a base  to start one from scratch
>> 
>> Sure it needs to be completed also in terms of menus, etc. Thus there is
>> some work to do.
>> 
>> Sure it would be a nice theme to have in the repertoire though.
>> 
>> Riccardo
>> 
>> 
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