Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 29, 2003 05:32 AM
About Gnome´s usability, I can´t tell, I have used very little Gnome, I can only tell you that GTK is ugly.
See this is where all the confusion is coming from. GTK isn't ugly, it's a widget set. How it looks is mostly related to the choice of theme used with GTK.
As it happens, I actually prefer the GTK default theme and themes like it over the bright, glaring themes used with KDE.
It's personal choice, but as a person who works with images a lot, I want a desktop that doesn't actually try to stand out, but instead is just there to be used. Anyone who works with colors a lot will tell you that brightly colored desktops often affect the way you view colors used in designs and that you really need a neutral colored desktop to be sure of what you're seeing. Why do you thing the Mac desktop was grey all those years, and why do you think they still include a grey theme option?
The widget set doesn't really have anything to do with how the widgets are colored or look. I'm sure that if someone really wanted a KDE looking theme on their Gnome desktop this wouldn't be too hard. In fact, with the great work being done at freedesktop.org it just might be that this work will be done without any work being done. Thank God for standards. But even better, if we can run the same theme on two desktops maybe we can end these mindless my desktop looks better than yours so therefor everything else must be better about it debates and actually just compare other parts of the desktop.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-]
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Re:Not A lot of Point Really - Lock in to Ximian?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 29, 2003 05:32 AMSee this is where all the confusion is coming from. GTK isn't ugly, it's a widget set. How it looks is mostly related to the choice of theme used with GTK.
As it happens, I actually prefer the GTK default theme and themes like it over the bright, glaring themes used with KDE.
It's personal choice, but as a person who works with images a lot, I want a desktop that doesn't actually try to stand out, but instead is just there to be used. Anyone who works with colors a lot will tell you that brightly colored desktops often affect the way you view colors used in designs and that you really need a neutral colored desktop to be sure of what you're seeing. Why do you thing the Mac desktop was grey all those years, and why do you think they still include a grey theme option?
The widget set doesn't really have anything to do with how the widgets are colored or look. I'm sure that if someone really wanted a KDE looking theme on their Gnome desktop this wouldn't be too hard. In fact, with the great work being done at freedesktop.org it just might be that this work will be done without any work being done. Thank God for standards. But even better, if we can run the same theme on two desktops maybe we can end these mindless my desktop looks better than yours so therefor everything else must be better about it debates and actually just compare other parts of the desktop.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-]
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