Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 02:14:59 +0100 From: ".VWV." <victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> To: <advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Fw: Re: a road to nowhere Message-ID: <003601c3aa4c$b8fb28d0$b5fc2dd5@workstation>
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>> GTK+, Qt, and GNUstep are made by different projects. Their themes >> are also made by separate projects. Most of the developers (and all >> of the theme writers) are unpaid volunteers. If you want some >> unified themes, you choices are to politely encourage and convince >> someone to do it >> for you, or to do it yourself. That's the way Open Source has always >> worked. > > I have written here for the reason above, I only trust in the FreeBSD > community. > >> I am the author of the Qt-2.x Stepstyle theme, which was as near of a >> clone of NeXT as I could get. I did not port it to qt3 for three >> reasons. First, there was little interest in it. Although it was >> popular as a "howto" to write other themes, the NeXT look itself is >> rather plain and unexciting. Second, porting to qt3 would mean a >> total rewrite, since the API has been completely changed. Third, >> there were strong rumours that Mosfet would be updating his KStep >> theme. The >> latter didn't happen, and with his current disappearance from the >> scene, might never happen. > > I have touched the porting problem, reading the sources. I had never > thought, it's you having built such a masterpiece, even if somebody > consider it 'unexciting'. I have read only of Mosfet. > >> I could update my Stepstyle theme. But doing so would put other >> projects of mine on hold. So before I would do it, I would need to >> know that there is interest in it. Doing all of this work for just >> one person isn't worth it to me (although renumeration of some kind >> would help). > > I have still downloaded all of the KDE 2.2.2 stuff. If it won't > correctly work on this system, I would be glad of paying for the > Stepstyle update. I'm a visual, therefore instead of running ungly > frontends, I still prefer the command-line. I have also modified the > look of this Windows bastard, to make it look more 'Nextish'... I > haven't the time to learn how to modify C sources, even if I would > like it, because I have a lot of capabilities to grow up, like metal > working, acting, electronic music. I still don't know what will be my > job. I'm a high-level authistic. > >> Also, Windowmaker is not a GNUstep application, so I don't know what >> the hullaballoo is all about. Although Windowmaker is the "official" >> window manager for GNUstep, it itself does not use any of the GNUstep >> libraries, and isn't even written in Objective C. > > I have learnt it from you now. It's really incredible. > > I was using a customized Afterstep, before a catastrophic crash of a > Linux filesystem. It was good looking with all of the Motif-like > frontends, I had also repainted the buttons, but it has all been lost. > > Now I'm running a self-built four disk system for safety, the next > one is a mix of ATA-UDMA and SCSI-ULTRA. > > Cheers > > VITTORI
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