# Small visual enhancements to make the desktop app less flat **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Proposal\ **Tags:** art, desktop, user-interface, development\ **Created:** [June 24, 2026, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/small-visual-enhancements-to-make-the-desktop-app-less-flat/5475 "2026-06-24T09:21:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 23
**Author:** ![ian](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/ian/32/3164_2.png) [@ian](https://forum.delta.chat/u/ian)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2026, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/small-visual-enhancements-to-make-the-desktop-app-less-flat/5475/23 "2026-08-29T07:54:27Z")
I would like to refer you to the following article. What you seem to enjoy is bazaar-like development, while the developer team of Delta Chat prefer cathedral. There is nothing you can do about it other than sending over your CV to join the team so you would land inside the cathedral. > **[The Cathedral and the Bazaar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar)** > > The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (abbreviated CatB) is an essay, and later a book, by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail. It examines the struggle between top-down and bottom-up design. The essay was first presented by Raymond at the Linux Kongress on May 27, 1997, in Würzburg, Germany, and was p... --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.delta.chat/t/small-visual-enhancements-to-make-the-desktop-app-less-flat/5475)._