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September 21, 2006
David Baron on Firefox 2 Theme Issues
David Baron posted some of his thoughts on the new Firefox 2 theme and the race to get it done in time so as not to miss our targeted Firefox 2 release date. Eloquent as always, David has done a great job of writing out frustrations that I share with him.
Posted by josh at September 21, 2006 11:50 PM
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i am experiencing the same frustrations, that new tab strip isa real bummer eh?
Posted by: Renee at September 22, 2006 3:41 AM
I filed bug 353785: "Gnomestripe: make the tab strip look native".
Posted by: Dao at September 22, 2006 5:56 AM
I think some criticism points must be added
- the design team started a theme discussion, some months ago, which some examples which are completely out of reach
- they answered to no question
- they answered to no suggestion
- they worked then some months behind closed doors and even the design observer team has nothing seen all the time
- i know some of the observer team, which are now completely frustrated, because nothing of their contradicting will and was be regarded.
- they are months to late with the new theme
- the goal to be native was completely ignored
- they worked only dilettantish (almost every detail, in the new theme, was modify on the branch builds many, many times - have they ever build a prototype?)
- they have never show mock-ups for MacOS and Linux
- they worked more or less only on some icons and some tab features (far to less for some months of work, and the result is that on the Mac theme nothing passed together)
The guys behind the new theme failed absolutely.
The whole design progress plan failed absolutely.
Mozilla should really seriously think about all the mistakes (and should seach for sure new guys for the theme part).
Regards
Posted by: Aronnax at September 22, 2006 8:14 AM
Dao, it shouldn't just be native for Gnomestripe, it should be native for all operating systems. The fact is that the theme was not discussed with the native-OS requirement in-mind at all, and they're trying to make up for it after the fact.
Posted by: Ben Basson at September 22, 2006 6:07 PM
Fire the themes guys.
Posted by: franCk at September 23, 2006 1:42 AM
Fire the themes guys.
Posted by: strayan at October 22, 2006 6:26 AM
My mind is like a bunch of nothing, but I guess it doesn't bother me. I haven't been up to anything recently. I've pretty much been doing nothing to speak of.
Posted by: Sten56711 at February 3, 2007 8:26 AM