Beautifying the GUI

[LMD]

So, I've had some fun messing with Minetest's GUI, and would like to go with the Material Guidelines as Minetest's default theme. As accent color I'd go with a shade of green. Opinions ? Would you frown upon a simplified GUI ? Other design guidelines you'd like to see implemented ?
Should there be an option to keep the current theme ?

[texmex]

You’d build this with formspec or something else?

[LMD]

I'd modify the engine (the basic GUI elements / their "skins"), so the C++ code.

[texmex]

I see. Just wondering, have you considered the bunch of UI frameworks already available for Irrlicht for use as base?

[rubenwardy]

The aim of formspec styling is to let the games decide how to theme themselves. I don't think material design is the best design for a game, although a pixel art version with similar design principals would be better

[LMD]

> have you considered the bunch of UI frameworks already available for Irrlicht for use as base?
I'm quite new to both C++ and Irrlicht. Will have a look.

> The aim of formspec styling is to let the games decide how to theme themselves
Yes, but currently, there is, and will always be, a default theme, which I would like to replace.
However, a few things should be customizable - such as accent color, background & foreground color, active/hovered/disabled and the like... I'd also see if formspecs should be changed, being able to set these styles for the rest of the formspec. Also, I might add a new image button with three states - active, hovered and idle - which could all use custom images (this would pretty much allow all sorts of custom buttons, and even color changes through texture mods custom buttons).

> a pixel art version with similar design principals
Will experiment a bit...