RE: Re: GS and Rant

Hi all

Forgive me if these points have already been raised.

I think that we also have to consider that the user base now compared to 5
years ago, is likely a fraction of what it once was.

That compounded with the fact that for the average themer (is there such a
thing any more) OTS3 and GS are more complicated than OTS2, which was about
as complicated as many themers could handle.

Add that to Chris' reasons and we have to recognize that any new standards
will have real challenges to broad adoption or acceptance.

Having said that, I really like the new installer.

Phar0e

-----Original Message-----
From: chris [mailto:jugg@...] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:37 PM
To: litestep@...
Subject: [Litestep] Re: GS and Rant

fractal.design wrote:
> Tobbe Lundberg wrote:
>> I was hoping that including GS in the installer would make more ppl
>> aware of its existence and hopefully make more themers use it.
> 
> Yeah, well, I dunno if thats realistic. I mean:
> 1. GS has been out for a while, I wrote news about it on all the main ls 
> sites, and little/no interest has been shown.
> 2. I get the same feeling about your installer, and OTS3.

Where is the well documented and presented specification? Where is the 
tutorial?  Where is the support forums?  I ask that rhetorically.  OTS2 
was well wrapped and supported from the get-go with an installer to move 
it to the masses.  It isn't that people don't have interest in OTS3 or 
Litestep or that it isn't superior, it's simply that we aren't packaging 
it and getting it out there.

Compare:

http://ls-themes.org/index.php?cat=article&show=ots3

to

http://o-t-s.sourceforge.net/

Is it really a wonder why OTS2 took off, and OTS3 hasn't?

chris

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