Re: Plans for ahead

[Gregory Casamento]

Riccardo,

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Riccardo Mottola
<riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> David Chisnall wrote:
>>
>> I agree.  The FreeBSD GNUstep packages include a lot of things, but you
>> need to do a lot of tinkering to make them integrate even vaguely with
>> typical environments.  For the ones that we use in the lab, I’ve configured
>> a more modern looking theme[1] and the in-window menus.  With this, the apps
>> still look fairly distinctive, but work quite well and people don’t
>> complain.
>
>
> I absolutely want "our" menus, they are distinctive and useful and if I were
> to make a reference distribution, I'd want to retain that.

They are OLD.   More important than their usefulness is what they
invoke and that is they make people think that we are NeXTSTEP and
OPENSTEP only.  Like it or not our old look is part of our problem.
I'm sorry you don't like this fact, but it is based on tons of first
hand observation over the last ten years.

GC
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Gregory Casamento
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