Comments on: Ubuntu 8.04: A Smart Theme Could Propel

By: Condoulo

Condoulo — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:25:08 +0000

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.

By: trent

trent — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:45:20 +0000

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

By: abadtooth

abadtooth — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:21:07 +0000

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.