Re: Clash of the Titans, GNUstep alongside GNOME

[Richard Fillion]

Talk about sticking out like a sore thumb.

It's not all bad though.  The GNUstep default look looks a little  
more organized if you ask me.  But that may be because I love the  
column view and despise icons like that.

A few things that should seriously be looked at:
  - The attributes inspector for files.  The GNOME one is pretty  
good looking.
  - The AppIcon.  Not only is it not very nice (it's not ugly, just  
not sexy), it's not being a very good X11 desktop citizen.
  - Colors are much more soothing on the GNOME theme.

The GNOME menubar has got to be the most atrocious thing I have seen  
in a while.  not to mention the taskbar/pager/quicklaunch?? bar at  
the bottom.

We've all seen rIO's nice themes (right?? :P ).  They're nicer than  
that default GNOME theme if you ask me.  Hint Hint.

More importantly though, would it really be that difficult to make  
something that competes with GNOME as far as a "DE" goes?  GNOME and  
KDE are not setting the bar very high here.  Would there also be a  
way of making it cooperate a bit more?  I'm sorry but if the person  
is running GNOME already, that AppIcon doesn't belong there.  The  
fact of the matter is that if someone is running GNOME, they've  
chosen their DE already.

Richard Fillion
rfillion@cs.und.edu

On Nov 26, 2005, at 12:22 AM, Thom Cherryhomes wrote:

> I have posted a screenshot of GNUstep apps running alongside GNOME
> applications....
>
> I did this, because a picture is worth a thousand words as to the
> state of GNUstep's.... interoperability with other desktop
> environments....
>
> http://64.74.186.169/gnustep_vs_gnome.png
>
> I did this with GNUstep out of the box, no customisations, and put
> GWorkspace alongside the GNOME Nautilus file manager...why? because
> the file manager is what we use day in and day out to launch programs,
> launch documents, accomplish things...
>
> it is worth noting that YES, a colour change would go part of the way
> to avoid the clash, but it doesn't solve some of the more glaring
> issues... particularly
>
> (1) the BIG APPICON THAT DOESN'T FIT ANYWHERE
> (2) the BIG vertical menu that sticks out like a sore thumb amongst
> the horizontal menu bars
> (3) the fact that the widgets look much less refined and sleek than
> their gnome counterparts (before you say anything, I will make the
> point that ClearLooks is _NOW_ The default packaged look with GNOME
> 2.12.)
>
> We need to look at this picture and take pause
> because it gives us what we need to do to play nicer...
>
> i do notice the XDG patch, and it seems to work pretty well, the icons
> show up in the task bar :-)
>
> Thoughts? discussions?
>
> -Thom
>
>
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