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Zak
Great in concept, but copying from CSS itself seems like a bad idea. The lack of abstraction can lead to some really inelegant stylesheets or necessitate writing the stylesheet in another language and generating CSS with a compiler. The lack of conditionals and variables is, to my way of thinking the most significant limitation.
KeithMajhor
This change seems very much in line with the GNOME philosophy. It would _greatly_ simplify theme creation.
makmanalp
Shameless plug to my favorite toolkit: Qt has had this for ages now: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/stylesheet.html

The Qt guys also have been trying to take this a step further with the declarative UI / QML (basically a tiny DSL for UIs) project:

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/05/13/qt-declarative-ui...

omouse
by 'ages' you mean 1 year?
ramidarigaz
I love Qt. My current project at work is all Qt, and it is so, so easy. After Gtk (no offense to those guys), Qt is fun.
houseabsolute
. . . and still look horrible.

You can't say that here! But the screenshot makes it pretty clear.

Edit: that's the default engine, as it says in the blog post. I still think GTK looks awful, but this is not really good evidence.

ataranto
GTK+ doesn't "look" like anything. Themes and engines do though. Is that your complaint?
houseabsolute
Technicalities and semantics. The only thing that matters is what I'm presented with as a user, and what I get when I use it does not look good.
naner
Yeah the default look is crap. We don't have a lot of options on Linux, though. Qt doesn't have many good themes either and it doesn't feel as nice as GTK. Enlightenment feels really quirky and unpolished.
krainboltgreene
I can understand adding stylesheets to GUI. That makes sense, perfect sense even.

But to copy all the flaws of CSS as well?