"For a while now, Clearlooks has been the default theme in Fedora; in fact, for a long time, Clearlooks has been the default theme in a number of distros thanks to its place as Gnome's default. Aiming to give Fedora its own distinct and modern appearance is Nodoka: based on its own theme engine it's extremely fast, and when seen in combination with the rest of the artwork for Fedora 8 is beautiful. Read on for an interview with Martin Sourada and some screenshots of the theme."
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Member since:2005-12-13
Yes, exactly my thought.... Theres nothing especially 'modern' sbout this theme, and just like most of the GTK+ themes out there, it's flat and unattractive, compared to Mac OS X 10.4.x .... I really think it's a pity that so many GTK+ themes tend to nglect what's really important... Consistency and non intrusive behaviour on the desktop ... Apple has realized, among all of it's Mac OS X 10.4.x blunders, that the pin stripe Aqua theme didn't work at all as well as first thought out in 1999 ... They've worked on making it look much more 'quiet' ... But what the Gnome theme developers tend to do is to make 'almost copies' of what already exists with very few changes ... Nothing serious ...
I just thought it'd be better to give the platform at strong, unified look, integrating it with the tool set so that whenever you build applications your default look would be more 'Gnome 2.20' than 'Windows 95' to look at ... Why not revolutionize the way to look at skis and themes, by making them obsolete for the average user and from there on let everyone change it?
There's a good reason for the gui layouts of commercial OSs to be consistent ... Whether you like Mac OS X or not ...
Edited 2007-09-21 23:28
Member since:2005-07-06
There's a good reason for the gui layouts of commercial OSs to be consistent ... Whether you like Mac OS X or not ...
Today, both Gnome is a very consistent environment, and don't think MacOS-X have any advantages over Gnome in this respect. The reason you sometimes see inconsistencies on a Unix/Linux desktop is that there are so many toolkits to chose from, a KDE app will stick out like a sore thumb in Gnome and vice versa.
However, most people will avoid using non Gnome apps on Gnome desktops just like MacOS-X users avoid using X11 apps like OpenOffice on their desktops.
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Member since:2005-11-15
Member since:2005-12-13
What makes YOU so damn wise in this department?
I bet you mostly hate OS X for not being Linux just as I bet you're sure that everyone liking OS X and Aqua MUST be Apple 'fanboys' or whatever people tend to call it out of a lack of anything more intelligent to say ...
Fine if you don't like it, but that's YOUR subjective opinion ...
Member since:2005-07-06
Modern or not is irrelevant. The important thing is wheter it is easy to read or use, and I think Nodoka is OK in that respect. On the other hand, so was/is Clearlooks. Only the developers can tell whether it was worth the trouble making these improvements.
Anyway, it looks good and thanks for all efforts and tim put into it.
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2005-08-12
Modern appearance? ...only in a pre-2001/pre-OS X world.