>> Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Apart from the question if KDE and GNOME2 should be made to look
> similar (KDE developers were pretty angry at RedHats step), should we
> try to make a "Debian" look default? (Provided that someone does
> Debian Themes...)
By all means, anything that makes KDE look less hideous is good</joke?>
No, seriously, it would be less confusing for novice users. More
experienced ones already know how to change themes and perhaps make
everything look consistent, but it's a considerable ammount of work.
But the screenshots are all but impressive. I had actually expected to
look at a screenshot and think "uhm... is that GTK+ or Qt?" Diverging
UI policies probably makes that goal very hard to achieve, not to
mention the fact that different programmers program differently and --
even with a UI policy at hand -- applications are going to deviate here
and there. Even more, modulo a couple of icons here and there, there
are things which are visibly different. If they like the KDE XP-like
eye candy, then get someone to make a matching engine for GTK+.
Personally it makes me puke... I have this prejudice that a desktop
that I'm going to be looking at 8 hours a day has to make a very well
reasoned use of color and contrast.
> It could be as simple things as using the debian color
that reddish tone? Please no; it's a very nice color, but I don't
think people want to look at it for more than 5 seconds at a time.
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