Sat 5 Jan 2008
In viewing the latest designs for the new theme proposals for Ubuntu 8.04, I see a lot of designs which I think are headed in the wrong direction if Ubuntu has plans on moving into the mainstream of operating systems. Many are going towards a dark them, which is good if you’re a hip 20 something year old playing at home, but the fact is the business world holds a large portion of the marketplace, one of which these dark themes just won’t cut it:
What Ubuntu does need is a clean cut, simplistic, light colored theme by default. My opinion all of the 20 somethings are going to change their theme time they format their pc, but the rest of the world will likely do nothing more than change a background image. This is why I think Ubuntu will have to drop the overpowering brown and go lighter, perhaps using the brown for more accents. Here is a theme I think is in the right direction:
Now granite many people say the orange could go, but thats a minor detail as far as I’m concerned, but this them is in the right direction!
January 8th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I have to agree with you, I like some eye candy on my desktop, but I like to customize it to my liking, dark themes give me head aches so I’m not a big fan of that.
When I first booted ubuntu 6.06 (about a year ago) I really liked the default interface!
However I did see how easy it was to install beryl at the time so I put that on and liked it a lot.
I really don’t think they should change the default, but rather just include the “Visual Refresh” as another theme.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
I agree. I think they should keep it clean and simple and let the end user do their own thing.. I do however think Ubuntu should have a more unique window “chrome” to distinquish it from the others.. like Vista from XP and from OSX. We can all just look at the window chrome and tell which OS someone is using, not so easy with linux as most gnome desktop sortof look the same.
But I’m not a designer so I dont have much room to argue.. lol
January 25th, 2008 at 10:25 am
I really like the theme with the light browns, but my problem is the example screenshot everything is a bit too….. huge. I say keep those colors, but don’t make things as huge.