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laurent laffont

[OT] GTK3 directions - what about Morphic ?

Hi,

I've seen:

- you can style GTK3 with CSS: http://gnomejournal.org/article/107/styling-gtk-with-css

- GTK3 apps can be rendered in a web browser: http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/

This sounds sexy.

I wonder how hard it would be to have SimpleMorphic go in this direction. And whether this is useful or not.

Laurent.

Igor Stasenko

Re: [OT] GTK3 directions - what about Morphic ?

On 16 March 2011 11:09, laurent laffont <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
> I've seen:
> - you can style GTK3 with
> CSS: http://gnomejournal.org/article/107/styling-gtk-with-css
> - GTK3 apps can be rendered in a web browser:
> http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/
> This sounds sexy.
> I wonder how hard it would be to have SimpleMorphic go in this direction.
> And whether this is useful or not.
> Laurent.

Well, it is orthogonal.
However, i like the idea of having similar to CSS for theming/styling UI.

--
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

EstebanLM

Re: [OT] GTK3 directions - what about Morphic ?

I don't.
This is very "linuxish" and not "macish" :P

Being seriuos: the posibility to change the look and feel for an application, being "whatever you want" is powerful for developers, but tends to create applications with usability problems, because users expect a common user interface for all "common behavior" in their applications (at least in Mac, it is that way, windoze users are more used to a non-common user interface).

best,
Esteban

El 16/03/2011, a las 9:31a.m., Igor Stasenko escribió:

> On 16 March 2011 11:09, laurent laffont <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've seen:
>> - you can style GTK3 with
>> CSS: http://gnomejournal.org/article/107/styling-gtk-with-css
>> - GTK3 apps can be rendered in a web browser:
>> http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/
>> This sounds sexy.
>> I wonder how hard it would be to have SimpleMorphic go in this direction.
>> And whether this is useful or not.
>> Laurent.
>
> Well, it is orthogonal.
> However, i like the idea of having similar to CSS for theming/styling UI.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>

laurent laffont

Re: [OT] GTK3 directions - what about Morphic ?

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <[hidden email]> wrote:

I don't.
This is very "linuxish" and not "macish" :P

Being seriuos: the posibility to change the look and feel for an application, being "whatever you want" is powerful for developers, but tends to create applications with usability problems, because users expect a common user interface for all "common behavior" in their applications (at least in Mac, it is that way, windoze users are more used to a non-common user interface).

Yes change look for one application only is not good. But the blog post talks about changing the look of all the environment (well GTK) at once.

Laurent.

best,
Esteban

El 16/03/2011, a las 9:31a.m., Igor Stasenko escribió:

> On 16 March 2011 11:09, laurent laffont <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've seen:
>> - you can style GTK3 with
>> CSS: http://gnomejournal.org/article/107/styling-gtk-with-css
>> - GTK3 apps can be rendered in a web browser:
>> http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/
>> This sounds sexy.
>> I wonder how hard it would be to have SimpleMorphic go in this direction.
>> And whether this is useful or not.
>> Laurent.
>
> Well, it is orthogonal.
> However, i like the idea of having similar to CSS for theming/styling UI.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>

laurent laffont

Re: [OT] GTK3 directions - what about Morphic ?

In reply to this post by laurent laffont

Little update: http://www.osnews.com/story/24536/Gtk_3_2_Runs_Any_Gtk_Application_in_a_Browser

Laurent

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:09 AM, laurent laffont <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

I've seen:
- you can style GTK3 with CSS: http://gnomejournal.org/article/107/styling-gtk-with-css

- GTK3 apps can be rendered in a web browser: http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/

This sounds sexy.

I wonder how hard it would be to have SimpleMorphic go in this direction. And whether this is useful or not.

Laurent.