Re: Re: GS and Rant

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:36:56 +0100, chris <jugg@...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
I see, its time for "that speech" again:

In the beginning, I was browsing the ots3 forum over at lsdev and noticed  
that the litestep setup i had for myself did a lot of the stuff people  
wanted for ots3. So i wrote "my ots3 proposal" and hoped people would come  
forward with ideas what ots3 should really be. Well, it didn't happen, so  
now its tailored for me, which means Lua and linuxish, and complicated too  
i guess ... anyways, everything i do for this or other communities are  
just side products of my personal interests. I write that stuff because i  
want it to work for myself. Therefore i hardly care if anything takes off  
as long as it works for me. So, while i'm willing to work on stuff that  
hardly interests me just for the good of the community, my ots3 is pretty  
much at a point where someone else will actually have to *do* stuff ...  
and there lies the real problem ^^

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