[Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-web] http://layers.gimp.org/ is Ugly

[Shlomi Fish]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 14:34, Roman Joost wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:30:59PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > I'm afraid to say that http://layers.gimp.org/ is incredibly ugly, and
> > makes us look very bad. As people who develop an image editing software
> > we should have at least a bit of rudimentary aesthetic sense.
> >
> > Carol told me she tried to make it look like the Layers dialog. Well,
> > that's not what I'd like to see there, and even so with some CSS and
> > images it can look much better. In any case, a web page can be even more
> > visually appealing without trying to emulate a GUI dialog.
>
> Besides the technical problems, I think you should propose a new site
> layout than just pestering about the current layout.
>
> I think 'ugly' is a very subjective term and if no one comes up with
> something better I wouldn't change anything in Carols position. This is
> similar to what GIMP users nag the developers about (Usability, Window
> Management, etc)

Well, we can use any of the following designs, which are much better:

* http://www.planetapache.org/

* http://advogato.ev-en.org/

* http://planet.gnome.org/

* http://planetsun.org/

I recall seeing even better looking planets in my neverending web surfing. 
Plus, we can always re-use a theme of WordPress or whatever.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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