[xmonad] A call for themes

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Thu Feb 7 16:34:05 EST 2008


droundy:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:48:30PM +0100, Andrea Rossato wrote:
> > Together with the prompt I added a new module: XMonad/Util/Themes.hs
> > where to store user contributed themes to be listed in the prompt.
> 
> It's rather daunting to realize that I'm the author of the default xmonad
> theme... I've certainly never aspired to become a theme person... in fact,
> I think it's safe to say (from the colors I picked) that I don't aspire to
> much in the way of fancy decorations... but I suppose that's why it's a
> safe default.
> 
> Which is a long way of saying: if anyone wants to propose an improvement on
> the default theme, please speak up! I'd rather not be a referee between
> disputing parties, but if anyone has a change they think would be a
> generally acceptable improvement, please speak up! (Or just send in
> patches, if I find them to hideous, I could always roll them back.)

This is a great move, by the way. More themes please. Let the
colour sensitive designers out there, of which we have many,
step up to improve the look and feel of xmonad.

-- Don


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