Re: Camaelon <-> GNUstep

[Riccardo]

Hey,

wow, we are in the typical theming discussion. I must play my card 
again, or my voice shall get forgotten.

On Saturday, September 2, 2006, at 09:25 PM, Gregory John Casamento 
wrote:

> GNUstep, I believe. needs a theming system which is flexible and 
> extensible.   This will allow people to make new themes that make 
> GNUstep look like whatever they want it to.  I would, personally, 
> prefer a significantly updated NeXT look to be the default theme (think 
> about what NeXT's UI might look like, if NeXT hadn't been bought by 
> Apple).

I agree that we need a good theming engine, which should unobtrusive for 
those who don't care about it.
I think the default theme should remain the next one, it is what I love 
and what I think makes gnustep look so professional. We should then 
offer a couple (really one or two) clear, updated themes which still 
have next spirit (not osx clones). A bit like Mozilla does. Then I 
envision a website or anyway a repository where to find other, varied 
themes, a thing that almosst eveveryone lese does.

I then also thing that we need an official color-scheme handler (like 
the one in backbone) for systempreferences. I might acutally write it 
together with Enrico. Furthermore, and this is important, it should come 
with a couple of ready color schemes (unlike someone else...)
Colors are half of the issue I believe and telling people to fiddle with 
nsdefaults is unacceptable.


Have fun,

 Riccardo