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Re: Fri mtg on AUI aesthetics

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Thu Mar 22 20:03:40 2001

To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
Date: 22 Mar 2001 17:02:54 -0800
In-Reply-To: "Christopher D. Beland"'s message of "Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:33:46 -0500"
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"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I'm fairly hosed at the moment (and thus the menus are not ready) and
> have other meetings that conflict with those times on Friday.
> 
> So I'll be in touch sometime soon about menus.  As for aesthetics,
> your eyes are as good as mine.  I should mention, though, that the
> Sawfish Crux theme is probably meant to go with the Nautilus theme of
> the same name.  (They are both shown on the screenshot.)  It might be
> worth it to consider both the Sawfish and Nautilus theme choices
> before committing to anything.  8)
> 

The Crux theme for Sawfish is our UI designer Arlo's latest, and I am
sure he would agree that it's better than the Eazel theme. It's meant
to go with the Nautilus and Gtk+ themes of the same name.

The Crux Gtk theme has been the #1 download on gtk.themes.org for
several months running now.
 
-- 
Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
whacky-ass code cowboy[sic]
Technical Lead, Services Engineering
Eazel, Inc.

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