http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/290/
You can't please everyone, but I think you should be aiming to please a lot more people than you currently are doing. The fact any plans for a new theme were dropped from 8.04 kinda sums up Ubuntu's attitude towards appearance.

You don't need to have transparent glass effects or anything like that, but you need to at least come up with a colour scheme that works. People just don't like the brown and orange. It might somehow sum up the ethos behind Ubuntu and its african roots, but it just dont make for an attractive computing experience!

If you want to become a mainstream rival to Windows and OSX then you need to look on a par with them and frankly you don't.

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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. ]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:49:41 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:06:52 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:39:15 +0000
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.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:37:09 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:47:49 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:13:23 +0000
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...]]> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:53:28 +0000 ]]> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:48:27 +0000
"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 a neutral color. Also, in Ubuntu, it is more orange/peach, being warm colors, that look welcoming.]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:27:54 +0000