GTK LAF

[Elliott Hughes]

am i the only one who hates the GTK LAF? taking advantage of the quiet
week at work to switch from an old svn evergreen/terminator to ToT
github. (one day i'll ask how to set things up so i can commit too...)

anyway, it turns out my one local change in the svn checkout was
disabling the GTK LAF. i thought i'd give it a try, and i could
probably live with it in Terminator but in Evergreen it's a bit harsh
with all those 1990s bas-relief titlebars. am i doing it wrong, or
does everyone else hate it too?

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[Martin Dorey]

> am i the only one who hates the GTK LAF?

I don't hate it.  Occasionally I end up with one of the three alternatives (Metal?), perhaps with ssh -X.  It's always a relief to get back to the GTK+ LAF.  I just tried all the three alternatives (Metal: looks like something I once knocked up on my Acorn Archimedes circa 1992; Nimbus: looks like something from the Amiga era, slightly before; Motif: well, it's a Unix system, I know this, but that really is retro) and ran back to GTK+.  At least that looks like the mid to late 1990s.  OpenJDK 1.8.0_171 on Debian.

> one day i'll ask how to set things up so i can commit too...

https://github.com/software-jessies-org/jessies/invitations

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[Elliott Hughes]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:57 AM Martin Dorey <marti...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > am i the only one who hates the GTK LAF?
>

> I don't hate it. Occasionally I end up with one of the three alternatives (Metal?), perhaps with ssh -X. It's always a relief to get back to the GTK+ LAF. I just tried all the three alternatives (Metal: looks like something I once knocked up on my Acorn Archimedes circa 1992; Nimbus: looks like something from the Amiga era, slightly before; Motif: well, it's a Unix system, I know this, but that really is retro) and ran back to GTK+. At least that looks like the mid to late 1990s. OpenJDK 1.8.0_171 on Debian.

yeah, i agree Metal looks dated, but at least it's relatively subtle.
GTK is just so in-your-face.

it's a pity something more modern-looking isn't built-in.

(bundling our own decent font is something i've long wondered about
too. Roboto and Roboto Mono are APL2.)

> > one day i'll ask how to set things up so i can commit too...
>
> https://github.com/software-jessies-org/jessies/invitations
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:29 AM Elliott Hughes <elliott....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> am i the only one who hates the GTK LAF? taking advantage of the quiet
>> week at work to switch from an old svn evergreen/terminator to ToT
>> github. (one day i'll ask how to set things up so i can commit too...)
>>
>> anyway, it turns out my one local change in the svn checkout was
>> disabling the GTK LAF. i thought i'd give it a try, and i could
>> probably live with it in Terminator but in Evergreen it's a bit harsh
>> with all those 1990s bas-relief titlebars. am i doing it wrong, or
>> does everyone else hate it too?
>>
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>> Elliott Hughes - http://www.jessies.org/~enh/
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