Firefox's new theme
By glazou on Monday 7 June 2004, 09:20 - Nvu - Permalink
That's Mozilla.org's decision and I have no comment to make about it; I only have a side comment about Nvu : I am glad I did not spend time to move Nvu to a Qute-like theme, as a lot of people requested. As a matter of fact, I really like Nvu's current look and I do believe I have much more important stuff to do for the moment.
Update: urrrgggggghhhh... Let's say I won't be commenting Mozilla.org's decision but will be commenting Winstripe theme itself : don't read the text here, just look at screenshots; Qute 0.1 first, Qute as of today, and finally Winstripe as of today. Scary, really scary.
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« C'est bien vrai, ça ! »
Even if this is indeed not a place for commenting about Firefox theme, I am glad also you didn't 'qutify' Nvu.
Oh, and « keep up the good work » (both of you)
For those not reading mozillazine's forums, here is a screenshot: kmgerich.com/archive/imag...
Well, the look of a web page editor like Nvu is indeed not so important. It just needs to work. A web developer is interested on having a site that looks good, not an editor that looks good.
On the other hand, the look of a web browser IS important, it is something every random user could have on his desktop. Not only developers. Even not only computer savvy users. And these ones do care about how things look at first sight. You have only one chance to seduce them and that's at the first opening of the browser window. If they don't feel like home they will just uninstall the program.
I don't agree with you Benoit. I'm a developer, and I've never liked any of Borland's products because they look so damn ugly. I also use dreamweaver because it looks so polished. Macromedia lost me as a user when they upgraded to MX (and MX 2004) because they didn't know that a clean UI is importaint. I still use DW4 because of that.
Daniel: I agree that the theme isn't importaint right now, but I hope you will switch when NVU gets closer to 1.0. The orbit theme isn't exactly my taste, and the NS4 hover buttons looks even worse. Please consider platform native UI effects.
« I am glad I did not spend time to move Nvu to a Qute-like theme »
Et simplement faire un gestionnaire de thème, ou récupérer celui de mozilla ? Hope i help.
Absolutely. The solution is called a theme manager. I have no time to spend on themes themselves, at least for the moment.
I hear again and again about how newer versions of Firefox/Thunderbird keep some themes from working with two different versions. So, I'm glad Daniel Glazman leave that out because it's not worth it at the moment.
At this point, I'm glad you have not. As you say, you do have more important stuff to do. However, on Windows XP, the current look is OK, but a native-looking toolbar would be better (as opposed to NS 4 ones, as someone has already said). But since it's still unclear as far as we know whether Thunderbird will adopt a Pintstipe-based theme or will keep Qute ... I hope the possibility is not ruled out.
(Though, while I respect and appreicate Arvid's time, talent, and work, the non-"free"ness has always bothered me.)