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Idea #8177: Beauty and usability are features, treat them as a high priority one.

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Written by mangar the 7 May 08 at 07:39. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Not an idea
Rationale
Pleasant looking application and work environment contributes a lot to the experience of using an OS (that's the main appeal for OsX, IMHO).

Ubuntu is for humans, humans likes pretty things.
Anecdotal evidence is the popularity of sites such as gnome-look, deviantart, and interfacelift, as well as the time and energy invested in configuring the visual side of the operation system (see the popularity of "post your desktop" threads).

Treat aesthetics and usability as features:

1. HIG violation as high priority bugs.
2. Missing Icons, cluttered interface, poor looks - medium priority bugs.
3. Theme, Icons, wallpaper, bootloader, application layout and consistency, and the rest of the visual interaction between the users and the machine should be high quality, scrutinized, voted, and submitted by both professionals and the community.
4. if possible, integrate a skin browser with gnome appearance manager
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #8177
Written by mangar the 7 May 08 at 07:39.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #8177 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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Eldmannen wrote on the 7 May 08 at 09:47
There are more important priorities.
Such as plug-n-play, auto-detection, auto-configuration, hardware support, etc.

nicant wrote on the 7 May 08 at 14:34
1 priority - "plug-n-play, auto-detection, auto-configuration, hardware support, etc"

2 priority - "Beauty and usability".

One without the other has no meaning

vexorian wrote on the 7 May 08 at 18:10
I think that nobody cares if an icon is missing in comparison to a driver causing periodic system trashes. Looks are good, but NOT high priority.

belovedmonster wrote on the 7 May 08 at 19:05
The argument in these comments is wrong because the same guy who writes the driver is not the same guy who makes the icon in inkscape. Putting resources into one does not stop resources going to the other. They are separate groups of workers.

The point is Ubuntu is simply not doing enough to promote the visual appearance and to encourage people to help out on it. The other distro I use is Linux Mint and it's sad to say that their tiny group of developers do waaaaay more than Ubuntu ever seem to do in terms of encouraging people to work on the look of the distro, how is this possible when Ubuntu has so many thousands more users? It's possible because they there is a short fall here with Ubuntu not doing enough when it comes to visuals.

retj wrote on the 8 May 08 at 04:08
I agree with belovedmonster, and the look of this distro could get a lot better with a little more effort, I suggest that you should post things like this separately:
Example:
You say:
Treat aesthetics and usability as features:

1. HIG violation as high priority bugs.
2. Missing Icons, cluttered interface, poor looks - medium priority bugs.
3. Theme, Icons, wallpaper, bootloader, application layout and consistency, and the rest of the visual interaction between the users and the machine should be high quality, scrutinized, voted, and submitted by both professionals and the community.
4. if possible, integrate a skin browser with gnome appearance manager

You could post:

Idea 1: Integrate skins browser with gnome appearance manager

Idea 2: Make User interface a priority

Idea 3: Fix Missing Icons...

Thats just my suggestion... My Vote +1

wladston wrote on the 27 May 08 at 14:07
-1, no multiple ideas please!

mangar wrote on the 27 May 08 at 15:01
It's a single idea, with suggestion for steps for implementation.

Bender2k14 wrote on the 29 Jul 08 at 21:46
-1 for multiple ideas

Vahan Harutyunyan (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 8 Oct 11 at 13:07
Closing in Brainstorm.

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/faq/#question11

"Be precise. An idea should focus on one point only. Don't put a broad scope to your ideas or post multiple ideas at the same time."


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