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robobart
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 00:32
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I ubuntu needs to look "cleaner"
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I agree. One of the things I've always found with both gnome and kde is that a lot of the themes contain some really unnecessarily large widgets and unpleasant colour schemes. I've always thought that a more compacted set of widgets would look better, with smaller buttons and a generally more constrained, sleek appearance.
As for the colours, the orange looks fine to me, but I've always found the brown tint of the GTK windows themselves to be a little overkill. Something a little more like the new clearlooks theme would look far fresher and more appealing.
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Estesark
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 02:06
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Brown isn't a particularly fashionable colour.
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Yes Please! Anything but barf brown by default would be awesome! It took me hours to figure out how to finally change all of the screens away from the brown. BUT I still see a flicker of it every now and then when I boot up....still drives me crazy.... DIE DIE!
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Anis
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 10:37
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Sorry but i have to agree.
Sociological studies have shown that the prefered color of people in general is blue. (not extraordinary : it's the color of the sky, the ocean...)
And as it's a cold color, it doesn't 'excite' you/your eyes.
Brown is the color of the earth, that's right, but in people mind, it's also the color of another thing they often see in their toilets. Not very positive.
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Estesark
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 10:47
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As much as I dislike brown, I can't say I ever thought of that when I looked at my default desktop wallpaper. Coming from you, Anis, I wouldn't expect any less. It's all in the name.
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I have high hopes for the new orange-and-black backlit glass theme.
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cheesehead
(Brainstorm moderator)
wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 03:53
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Changing your desktop (or your whole theme) is incredibly easy. And Ubuntu's is darn slick compared to just a couple years ago.
Post your contributions to the various theme and desktop-picture websites, and let the community vote with it's downloads.
Stop foisting your color choices on me, and trying to bloat my distro with eye candy.
I like the brown, but I always change it to something I like even more...
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The connotation of colors is cultural. For me certain shades of brown mean SHIT, and the first time I saw Ubuntu I literally rolled on the floor laughing...
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Anis
wrote on the 5 Mar 08 at 12:02
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@Estesark : A personal attack like that is to blame and if i could i would report your post as offensive.
"Coming from you, Anis, I wouldn't expect any less."
It's my first post here end you don't even know...
"...It's all in the name"
What is it? Racism? You don't like Arabic names?
What are you doing in this "international brainstorm"?
Just get out of here!
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Brown is ok as a color. Oh and wait. If you need your OS to look good "out of the box", you don't need the choice of Linux do you? Go grab a mac.Linux is for us to customize.
Brown is a neutral color. Also, in Ubuntu, it is more orange/peach, being warm colors, that look welcoming.
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