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Idea #2614: Orange/Brown theme should not be the only one

Written by bourlas the 2 Mar 08 at 23:35. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Orange Brown theme should not be the only one included
There should be color themes based on all the basic
colors e.g. blue theme, yellow theme, red theme, black theme
green theme.

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Written by bourlas the 2 Mar 08 at 23:35.
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ugm6hr wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 19:02
This is already possible (sort of): http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/02/26/turn-ubuntu-blue-using-blubuntu/

mexlinux wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 19:13
Agree!
Brown is the color opf epsylons

fritobandito wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 19:49
duplicate. i have seen this many times

tobyglenn wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 20:02
If it is a duplicate and many people don't like the brown color theme maybe that is saying something about that theme. I liked the fedora DNA theme the best myself.

Nomax wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 20:27
Several splash screens should be included too. I also turned my Ubuntu desktop into a more blueish theme but I had to download a blue version of the splash screen. It should be included by default. By the way, blue is more "classy"... ;-)

JohnyN wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 20:32
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Humanlooks?content=73905
Simply way to make Human with various color variations.

houstonbofh wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 21:20
People have been griping about this since Breezy. (Probably sooner but that is when I started griping) Why is default the only "finished" theme included, and why is it totally unmodifiable?

larryfroot wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 21:37
why is it the only finished theme and also unmodifiable? its because God is punishing me for not being colour blind...

Bernardo Gaetani wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 22:18
Dis appear w/ old windows and is so ugly.

r00tzz wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 22:23
i think its not really important to have many themes
it s more relevant to work easy and without problems

rafa_pradella wrote on the 5 Mar 08 at 18:33
The blue is a color of the security and calm why not a blue-black-white-orange theme (ok,it is complicated... :D)


rafa_pradella wrote on the 5 Mar 08 at 18:34
Brown is a sh** color, it isnt very agradable color

tioum wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 17:45
If one click would change the look to vista and the other click to osx, then people would see where the freedom is.

fde wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 15:38
Ok, but the best thing would be parametrisable colors for system icons, controls and window borders!

That would allow the user to choose the exact colors of the entire system within 3 clicks.

Here is the corresponding idea : http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1154/

ArtInvent wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 23:06
Brown isn't really the color anyway, it's orange, which is worse. I've seen the latest Hardy alpha and it's an even lighter orange which is a step in the wrong direction. No offense mates, but whoever is in control of Ubuntu's art direction - and I use the term advisedly - is sorely needed back at the coding station and away from the color palettes.

moonglow wrote on the 8 Mar 08 at 09:39
Nice dark theme here:
http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2008/03/giving-your-ubuntu-gusty-gibbon-cool .html

dogshit wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 10:03
It may be heresy but....

The single most gorgeous theme I've *ever* seen is the Sun Microsystems default Gnome theme.

I *wish* that exact theme could be transplanted into Ubuntu - the presence/absence of the Sun logo et al is spurious. It could be there, could be gone, I'm indifferent to that aspect.

The reason I think that theme is stunning is because everything looks polished - elegant and "finished". Plus the blue hues are lovely (coming from someone who doesn't have a style/design bone in his body).

xl_cheese wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 14:58
They are working on it. check the artwork mailing list. Progress is slow as molasis, but they are working on it. We've been told there's going to be big changes for 8.10.

Eldmannen wrote on the 19 Mar 08 at 02:38
What about pink theme?

angrykeyboarder wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 15:24
You are free to switch to another theme as soon as you log in and see the brown. :)

There are several themes available.

System-->Preferences-->Appearance

There are additional Ubuntu-specific themes in the Ubuntu repositories (e.g. "BlueBuntu") as well and quite a few other non-Ubuntu themes in the repos too.


Warbo wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 03:21
GTK supports recolouring of themes if the theme has been built that way. The issue is making the default theme able to do this (personally I don't know if it can or not since the last time I saw it was October 2006 when I got my laptop, I've been upgrading rather than reinstalling since then which keeps all of my preferences intact :) )

Craig73 wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 00:09
@angrykeyboarder... perhaps that is the issue - the themes are in a repository. I think some kind of "Next action" design should be put in place and (similar to Firefox) have a "get theme" button that will allow you to visually search the respository or a central web site.

amd-linux wrote on the 24 Jul 08 at 15:36
Nimbus is the way to go - it is the most beautiful, most perfect, most advanced desktop theme available for gnome and beats everything else. It is the OpenSolaris default theme and comes close to Apple's Aqua or is even better. It contains blue and orange elements.

Screenshots and more info:
http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/category/nimbus/

Packages:
https://launchpad.net/~wiz/+archive

Sun OpenSolaris page about Nimbus:
https://nimbus.dev.java.net/



jeanpaul145 wrote on the 8 Oct 08 at 12:55
Once I was this theme (the Dust theme) I was blown away:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/DustTheme?action=show&redirect=Artwork %2FIncoming%2FIntrepid%2FDustTheme

I'm using it on my Hardy installation right now, as a matter of fact. It's really sad that this probably won't propagate to a default Intrepid installation (whether it is a default theme or not makes no difference to me, I almost never use defaults).

johan wrote on the 11 Oct 08 at 12:47
This isn't a good idea. To promote something, there has to be a clear definition of what this "something" is. Basically: "It's all about identity" and Ubuntu shouldn't be schizo.

Auzy wrote on the 11 Oct 08 at 12:56
I disagree Johan. OSX ships with a Silver theme too.

linuxuser21 wrote on the 22 Dec 08 at 17:35
I agree with this idea; however, I don't want it to start looking close to Vista. I liked Vista, now it's hard to find anything that doesn't have the Vista look.

pHzero wrote on the 3 Jan 09 at 00:06
Agreed, but human should still be the default imo.


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