Question about the "look" of GNUstep

[JW]

Hello,

First, a couple things.

1. The content of this message is likely to make some people irritated, but 
that is not at all my goal - I'm not flaming or abusing anyone or anything, 
either.

2. I'm not a programmer yet, I have only recently started studying programming 
and I'm not anywhere close to being able to work on GUIs yet.

So basically, I'm posting this as a curious end user.

I understand that GNUstep's "look", as far as widgets and things are concerned, 
are based on NeXTStep's look. I appreciate that and don't want to take anything 
away from people who really like that kind of look, but I personally am fond of 
eye candy and find GNUstep rather "plain" - not as bad as motif, but not very 
exhilarating to look at, either.

I'm just wondering if there's any plans, works in progress or hopes to 
"upgrade" GNUstep's "looks",  add theme support or anything to make it look a 
little nicer, more modern?

Is there any possibility of using QT/KDE widgets, maybe via some sort of 
binding/wrapper/bridge or whatever you want to call it? I'm wild over Aqua but 
I'm sure due to Apple's harsh legal actions in the past, anything that looks 
remotely like Aqua on a non-Apple platform it totally "out". IMHO KDE is the 
second nicest looking thing after Aqua, that's why I thought I'd mention it.

Again, I'm not trying to start any heated debate! I'm just curious.

Thanks

        JW

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Jonathan Wilson
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Cedar Creek Software     http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com