BitJam
@BobC, please don’t worry. We are not going to abandon “Lean and Mean” just for some eye candy. Nor are we going to limit your ability to configure your system the way you want it. Until now, the choice of the default background (like most other things) was up to anticapitalista. I don’t see that changing either.
I think we already have quite a number of themes available for such a small distro. If we choose to add another, I don’t see how that harms any of our existing users. IMO by far the biggest problem is that a lot of the software we use keeps growing and growing so even without adding packages our iso files take up more space every year. We finally had to break the cd-size barrier with full in antiX-17 (I think) and now even base is up against the cd-size limit. IMO, adding some theme and configuration files will be down in the noise. Way down.
I look forward to seeing the new modernized look. I believe this is an area that could use improvement and unlike most distros we don’t have the developer resources it requires. We have a really small team. Instead of getting the torches and pitchforks ready, let’s wait and see what happens. If new theming does get added then we will all get to see it in the beta.
We’ve concentrated on being lean and mean while we have let some things slide a bit. If someone can help us out with the look and feel without violating “lean and mean” then I say more power to them. We could really use the help.
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