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alvevind
wrote on the 20 Mar 08 at 20:37
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As a side comment:
I think a color customization feature is a "must have" in order to capture the full support of the more appearance focused part of the population. That means girls.
You may call it silly, but it's a fact. In my experience the first thing a girl wants to do is to choose her own color. It's that way with her purse, it's that way with her mobile phone, it's that way with her Operating System.
Attracting female users *is* important if Ubuntu is to compete with Mac and Windows.
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Yeah, we need girls!
They need to be able to change the ugly brown unfashionably brown theme to a trendy pink theme!
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fragro
wrote on the 20 Mar 08 at 21:45
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Color changing is already there but the Theme must support it.
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alvevind
wrote on the 20 Mar 08 at 21:52
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So change the Human theme so it supports color change!
But look at the great links Eldmannen posted in the first comment. That's how easy and attractive the color selector should look. That's what Ubuntu is up against - we should learn from what Windows and Mac does well.
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fluteflute
(Idea reviewer)
wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 07:32
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Yes yes yes!
Blubuntu theme is just Human made blue. Can there just not be an option to change the colour!
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tenplus1
wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 11:29
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Great idea as it does get annoying having to download themes to simply change the colour...
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sedra
wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 14:54
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good idea plesase remove that orange color!!!!!!!!!!
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alvevind
wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 14:59
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@sedra
This idea is *not* about removing the orange color. It is about giving people the option to *change* the base color to their own liking, without having to search for, download and install an entirely new theme manually.
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cmr
wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 17:17
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yes, please. the orange is dreadful. the desktop looks like diarrhea. i like the theme, i just can't stand the hue.
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"The current controls theme does not support color schemes." :(
Please add color scheme support for the Human theme!
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> Create a simple color selector where the user can choose the
> *base color* to use. Just select *your* base color, and a
> custom Human theme is created on the fly that looks *exactly*
> like the default Human theme but where the orange window bars
> and orange icons are now based on *your* selected color.
> Gradients, style, application icons etc. remain unchanged.
This feature is already implemented. Just look at the tab "Colors". But the Human theme does not support this feature.
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alvevind
wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 22:53
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@natureflow
Is it really?
Can I easily switch the Human base color (orange) for my own preferred color and the colorization of window bars, folder icons etc. will automatically change? I tested this with another theme just now in Hardy and the ubiquitous folder icons stayed totally unchanged after I changed the color (the window bar changed color but that is just one part of the picture).
I do not want a 20 step procedure to tweaking one thing at a time. I want a simple and non-technical one-stop-shopping method for choosing *the* base color.
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I'm not a girl but I'd like to be able to change the hideous colour scheme please.
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BobCFC
wrote on the 2 Apr 08 at 13:40
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I've been digging around in gconf-editor looking for a way to change it by hand. No luck so far.
Can anybody provide a quick hack for me to edit a file or similar? It is affecting other themes which refer to the base colour, not just the human theme.
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I like to use Clearlooks theme with the Human window decorations, which gives me a sky blue color.
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Endolith
wrote on the 19 Feb 09 at 03:33
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The title bars and stuff can already do this, by changing the selection color in Appearances.
It seems like we should be able to do this with SVG icons, too, by taking advantage of SVG's ability to reference other colors, etc.
For instance, here is an example of some icons that have been given special colors so that they should automatically match your theme:
http://endolith.com/svgiconcolors/icontest.html
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CJay554
wrote on the 27 Oct 09 at 19:05
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PLEASE PLEASE PLAEAAAASE IMPLEMENT THIS!
It would help so much just to customize the coloring rather than download a whole new theme. I do like the Human theme icons, just i easily get bored with colors and would like to simply pick my color from a color wheel like the highlight and the bar colors and all other colors.
PLeaaaaasee 0=]
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CJay554
wrote on the 23 Jan 10 at 05:22
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This would be amazing! but, couldn't we just make a script that changes the original SVG colors for us? by finding what makes the colors change, just use a regular text editor or via "vi" to change the color code to whichever one we want? Im going to try at this...
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