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#1993: Desktop beauty
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Written by maltepalte the 1 Mar 08 at 01:17.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Can the default desktop PLEASE get a facelift? Fresher, happier colors would make my day. (Sure you can customize, but I convert a lot of people to using Ubuntu, and they all say the same thing when they first see it start up: "Its...brown? :("
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penguin007 wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 01:32
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Agreed. Sure it's easy enough to customise, but can we PLEASE have some nifty background pictures in the default install?
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schwagner wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 01:35
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This is already being taken care of. The new look won't make it into 8.04, but will be included in 8.10.
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tantalanta wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 01:43
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ok, some of us might actually get offended by such a proposal (the word 'beauty' is somewhat misplaced ;)). But instead of bashing this with negative votes one should see, that the idea behind it cannot be neglected easily. The color surely is a cultural issue and in western countries "Its...brown?" is not an unlikely response, whereas in Africa there might be a totally different view on that.
Why not just stick with the origins of humanity and its earthly colors but offer some kind of theme selection as a default once you start installing (Live CD) ubuntu? It could help to spread ubuntu more widely and that's what we all would benefit from.
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default.aspx wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 02:06
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Yes I agree, Ubuntu had better get rid of that ugly brown interface, or they should at least use another inteface as the default.
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avixK7 wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 05:58
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While I don't mind the default theme, I always find myself asking why are brown-ish earthy colours the only colours associated with humanity, or Africa. Seems to me that a nice green theme would be interesting (just as an example) Africa's got jungles you know :)
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gespertino wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 06:30
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It's brand identity.
Suse uses Green, Fedora uses Blue... Ubuntu uses brown. What's wrong with that? You can change it in a breeze using the appearance panel. You can download new themes from gnome-look and install them grabbing the tar file on the theme manager.
If you don't like brown, change it. But you can't deny that it's a strong design decision that gave Ubuntu a recognizable look. That's a successful choice, even if you don't like brown.
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mcturra2000 wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 14:12
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Here's the odd thing.
One guy creates the idea "A GUI theme to rival Aqua", and is currently at +202 (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/498/)
maltepalte creates the idea "Desktop beauty" but is at -29.
Are the ideas really at odds with each other. And let's face it, the colour scheme of Ubuntu has been highly criticised.
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cheesehead wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 03:12
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Change your theme.
I like the default. I still change themes and backgrounds from time to time.
Don't bloat my distro!
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lync wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 21:44
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A facelift should be fine...
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