[OpenLayers-Users] Intuitive and good looking icons

[Mika Lehtonen]

Christopher Schmidt kirjoitti:
> attitude is everything when communicating with
>     a mailing list
Shouldn't that also concern developers?

I am asking this because I've been noticing that in OL-users list there 
are time to time so hostile responses to the users ideas that for 
example I haven't ever experienced such in the Geoserver users list. I 
think that all the users throwing ideas in the list are just trying to 
make things better, not to question developers competence or ability to 
do their work. Yeah, it easily happens that you come up with a superb 
idea and share it in the list without thinking how to put it in there or 
reconsidering how superb it really is. But one shouldn't take it as an 
insult or yelling. In my opinion, everyone should have one vote, 
regardless of whether you are a developer or an user, to vote for things 
and features you like. After all, it isn't just developers who are 
making open source (software) possible.

What comes to the graphical design, I think it would be a great idea to 
make availabe few libraries of those too, that is, if someone can 
provide them as an open source. I do understand that the idea behind the 
core of  OL is not to be a nice GUI but rather a "shell" that connects 
different GI sources together and make them available for the potential 
users. You can also switch to MapFish (www.mapfish.org) if you demand 
more flexible GUI and still benefit from the OpenLayers library with a 
help of the Extjs GUI library.

My two cents,
- mika -