Re: Exciting GNOME?

[Everaldo Canuto <everaldo_canuto yahoo com br>]

Hi,

On last week my friend Willian (Willian is a lawyer) look at me using
Evolution and say: "Hey, this is a cool application. Can you install on
my computer?". I have install the Fedora 3 on his computer and he likes
the look of GNOME applications. The BlueCurve theme is nice for end
users and I think that the most big problem of GTK and GNOME is your
default theme... before BlueCurve and Fedora I dont like GTK too.

Another problem is that when you GNOME and open a QT application,
default theme of QT application looks nice but when you use KDE and open
a GTK application then the end users say: "This application is ugly!!
Arrrg!!".

A new default theme for GTK solve some problem but another problem is a
default theme icon for GNOME... I ask some "normal end users" about the
screenshots and all users (100% of 11 users) say me that the GNOME icons
is not cool and needed more colors.

Everaldo.


Em Seg, 2005-02-14 �13:31 +1300, Callum McKenzie escreveu:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 10:40 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > Here's a list of screenshots that wonderfully demonstrates why GNOME does
> > not come off as an exciting, fun, cool desktop for end-users to love. They
> > are not show-off screenshots, just normal, everyday things:
> > 
> >   http://www.fireflybsd.com/screenshots/
> > 
> It strikes me that the single biggest difference between the screen
> shots is the theme (widget, icon, background and window manager). KDE is
> shinier and more eye-catching. It also has more buttons and so looks
> more detailed and interesting (in a screenshot), but I think this is a
> very secondary concern.
> 
> Should we start the default theme flame-fest again? I don't think so.
> How about we run a grand default-theme competition and let our community
> get involved with the design. (I envisage this being judged rather than
> voted on so we get something that is both usable and pretty, because
> votes only go to pretty.)
> 
>  - Callum
> 
> 
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