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- virtualmode, on 03/17/2009, -4/+56The dark Dust theme is my favorite, so I'm really happy that I won't need to install it manually. With a few simple tweaks to Compiz (transparent menus) and Gnome's panel (transparencies) it makes Ubuntu close to perfection. Canonical, please do it, and also create (or just find at gnome-looks) a better icon set for it. After that the number of people complaining about the looks will reduce significantly, you'll get praises instead!
- Nickedynick, on 03/17/2009, -5/+38Looks like that slick UI that was promised is starting to come together nicely! My favourite of these is New Wave - it would be nice if it were installed as the default perhaps.
Fingers crossed we'll have a decent wallpaper to go with the new themes, GDM and notifications. - frouse, on 03/18/2009, -0/+30They have hired professional designers but their work has not been seen yet. It's expected for use in Ubuntu 9.10
- enlligghtenment, on 03/17/2009, -5/+30Dust looks nice, but New Wave is the bomb :D
- thevoiceless, on 03/18/2009, -5/+28For some reason, I seem to be the only one who really does not like these themes.They're too bland and boring!
- stewacide, on 03/18/2009, -4/+21What they're doing with the title/menu bar there is a disaster. Bad usability/visibility and eye dis-pleasing ratios.
- tacone, on 03/17/2009, -2/+19Long awaited old-crufty themes removal. I wonder why it took so long.
- sloppychris, on 03/18/2009, -1/+17Oh, that's why my transparencies went away. How do you make those tweaks?
PS, the community art team is working on an icon theme that combines KDE's Oxygen with Human, it's called Breathe. Looks gorgeous so far.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet/Ico ... - stealthspc, on 03/18/2009, -7/+22They really need to hire a graphic designer. That's decent looking, but nothing stunning.
- okubax, on 03/18/2009, -2/+17They could have done better, but I'll rather have one of the new themes than the brown(ugly) one as default theme.
- abbathdoom, on 03/18/2009, -3/+15I honestly believe that if a Mac user saw these themes he would laugh at us calling them sexy and slick. They look fug to me and it makes me sad as a Linux user to see these presented as being slick.
Like take Dust for example, the dark colors are kinda slick, but then they ruin it with the absolutely fugly browny highlight colour. Brown as a highlight could have worked if it was the right shade of brown, but the "dusty" brown used just clashes in such an eye sore kind of a way. Am I the only one who isn't color blind here?
The one genuinely slick Gnome themes is Shiki Colors which is genuinly beautiful (and is designed by someone who understands not to make colours clash). For some reason though no Distro seems to wanna ship this theme, instead they want to ship fugly ones.
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Shiki-C ...
I was gunna ask why this is the case, but if you have ever gone into a "post your own desktop" forum thread on a Linux board you will that the majority of Linux users don't really have much taste in themes. I'm sorry to have to insult my fellow FOSS buddies by saying that but its true. - Megatog615, on 03/18/2009, -2/+12Why didn't they just use Shiki-Colors? It's probably the most beautiful dark theme I have ever used.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Shiki-Color ...
In fact, there's an orange version of the theme, and it's conveniently called "Human." - Vadi0, on 03/17/2009, -2/+12More like "shut them up" ;)
- Culyt, on 03/18/2009, -1/+10Yay! 3 different shades of dark grey, (and still slightly brown) borders.
All these themes look exactly the same, why not give a visual range? Why do all the icons have to be orange? Why not have a normal professional neutral blue for the work place, a sleek silver for the Mac people who for some reason think brushed steel/glossy plastic is some kind of pinnacle of theming, and sleek dark theme for the whole Vista Ultimate crowd, and a hot pink for the OMG! P0n13s crowd?
Also why are we limited to so few default themes, and something like 3 wallpapers? Why not choose a dozen decent themes from gnome-look? There only a few MB each if that. Why not add an Ubuntu theme repo with a GUI browser in the Appearance box then we can have heaps, just need a few people to grab them from gnome-look, verify they are stable, package them and upload, we could have hundreds of themes and thousands of wallpapers all accessible from a default install. - MCJackhammer, on 03/18/2009, -1/+9System>Preferences>Appearance:Themes
- bj1989, on 03/18/2009, -0/+8You sounded pretty believable until you called shiki colors genuinly beautiful. That theme is no better than the new themes for 9.04
- motang, on 03/17/2009, -4/+12Nice, it looks like much improved Dust theme!
- HonoredMule, on 03/18/2009, -0/+7Yep, New Wave looks spot on, and it's nice to finally have a polished dark-but-not-pitch-black theme. I'd still like the harsh white backgrounds to be replaced with light grey, though. I don't like really dark, but I don't want white anywhere either. I enjoy white backgrounds as much as I enjoy staring at fluorescent lights all day.
- ptFoe, on 03/17/2009, -4/+11Great they have decided to show some balls and include Dust, but it or Dust Sand (since many are scraed of Dark themes) should be the default theme. Human has become one old ugly eyesore.
The fonts look really nice in the screenshots. - LostOverThere, on 03/18/2009, -0/+6These are just community themes...and none of them are default.
- MrTea, on 03/18/2009, -1/+7awesome, I've always liked the Dust themes
btw, the dust themes are available on gnome-look.org; they're not ubuntu exclusive
my fav. is cold dust - XeroXenith, on 03/18/2009, -0/+5Care to assist then?
In any case, this is only the beginning. Shuttleworth promises a completely refreshed UI for 9.10.
"The desktop will have a designer's fingerprints all over it - we're now
beginning the serious push to a new look." - HonoredMule, on 03/18/2009, -0/+5I don't like Dust either, but because it is unusable with such poor contrast and clarity. Bland and boring is good for containers that shouldn't be distracting focus away from the /content/.
- zeebo, on 03/18/2009, -1/+6Every year is the year of the Linux desktop because every year I find that there's still nothing better.
Linux today reminds me of BeOS back in the mid 90s. We all knew it was better, but the big apps were for Windows, and so everybody put up with how much it sucked so that they could use the apps they had to. Except that now, thanks to virtualization and wine those few holdout apps can be used easily from within Linux. The only things stopping Linux adoption, are Microsoft's dumping of XP on netbook makers far below its market value, and Adobe and game developer's lack of support.
Ultimately Linux will ship on motherboards, video card virtualization will become a reality. You'll turn your computer on, Linux will pop up instantly, and then you'll be able to check your mail and surf the web while windows comes up in the background for running your legacy apps. - wendall911, on 03/18/2009, -3/+8My boss just asked me what that background was on the two new workstations at work. "***** Stain" is the official office theme name for these in our office. I really like the artistic styles, but th 8.10 background just isn't as nice as some of the previous ones. The heron artwork was nice and appealing across multiple age groups. The background is really easy to replace once installed, just doesn't make much of an impression on most people.
- abbathdoom, on 03/18/2009, -1/+5None of these themes are in the same league as Shiki Colors, so alas I am still going to have to change the default theme.
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Shiki-C ... - HonoredMule, on 03/18/2009, -0/+4I like flat. Depth is too distracting and dissonant with reality, and requires everything to be bigger and surrounded with more whitespace to be clear, which wastes screen space and isn't exactly a grand tradeoff if you don't even like the look.
- srg13, on 03/18/2009, -0/+4I much prefer the Tango icon theme. I think Oxygen tries to be too realistic, which massively fails at small sizes like 16x16.
- abbathdoom, on 03/18/2009, -0/+4This is what I hate about the dust theme, while certain parts of it are sleek looking they spoil it by having that horrible browny orange highlight colour.
- LoneWolf01, on 03/18/2009, -0/+4Fairly unrelated: I like that naming scheme.
Related: Should be good, I'm quite fond of Oxygen. - inactive, on 03/18/2009, -1/+5I hope these will support transparency, like, with murrine or something.
http://tinyurl.com/2bhp26 - TrevorPace, on 03/18/2009, -1/+4Yeah I hate the dark themes I'm afraid. But I definitely prefer a "newer" look than human (I actually use Bluman because I hate orange...but its the same just blue). I'd like a glassier look almost...but something that doesn't look like Vista or Mac. I'd like to feel some depth to my screen...it's too flat.
- dougm68, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3oohhhhhh yessss....geek porn. love it.
- bytor4232, on 03/18/2009, -1/+4I've been using Aurora Leopard on Ubuntu 8.10, so Dust Sand rocks my world baby. I'm glad that Ubuntu is showing some balls in including some real choices.
Way to go team! - Aeuta, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3Can we get around to changing the icon theme? I personally think that is the most disappointing thing about the current theme. We need some slick modern icons, I will even accept that they are a orange.
- hardeep1singh, on 03/19/2009, -0/+3Not everyone likes getting into the terminal to setup a newly purchased machine.
- virtualspectre8, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3The dark Version of Dust goes well with the Meliae or Meliae Dust Icon Themes, I prefer to change the "Selected Items" color to some blue/greenish color that goes well with the original Meliae Folder color.
My Favorite new alpha theme is one based on the great New Wave Theme, it's called New Marmol. - HonoredMule, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3Does it use some form of "netbook remix" desktop environment? If so, the themes are quite possibly totally unusable. If it's a standard Gnome desktop, though, installing the package should make the various components available that comprise the theme, and you can select the parts you want (i.e. not disrupt whatever details you might be relating to "look and feel").
- virtualmode, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3They are moving in the right direction. They took the most popular themes and included them. Removing old themes to free some space on the CD for those new ones is a step nobody is complaining about. What could be done even better? First, include Shiki-Colors (I don't use it, but it's too popular to be neglected) and even more themes for diversity. Second, add a few cool new login screens (just take those which are good and popular at gnome-looks), remove old screens to free some space. Third, remove old icon themes (like the old GNOME theme) and add the most popular themes among the community. And forth, include a great wallpaper. None of these steps implies expensive work, just use the best from the community. This would be enough to make people stop complaining about the looks while waiting for the beauty of Karmic Koala.
- azies, on 03/19/2009, -0/+2I like running the pre-release because everyday when I update, it's like i get something brand new about for my os
- inactive, on 03/18/2009, -0/+2Hey guys, new to Linux here (ubuntu Heron). I have a netbook (Hp mie) with HP's modified version of ubuntu heron - can I just grab a package with this theme and will it just theme my windows? ie. It won't screw with the overall system look and feel? If it does, is it easy to revert? Any thoughts? I want to dive in and explore but don't want to break anything ( just yet ). I'm not comfortable enough with CLI yet.
- homeagain1, on 03/18/2009, -0/+2That looks rather gory if you ask me...
- MCJackhammer, on 03/18/2009, -0/+2It's supposed to be simple.
And this is the Ubuntu theme, not Linux.... - mdc4115, on 03/18/2009, -1/+3get epidermis for ubuntu. it makes changing themes so much easier and you can make them easily too.
http://epidermis.tuxfamily.org/ - LostOverThere, on 03/18/2009, -0/+2Sweet. This will certainly tie me over until the brand new artwork team's theme arrives for 9.10
Its not going to be brown either according to Mark Shuttleworth. - MattBD, on 03/18/2009, -0/+2I wish they'd include the Nimbus and Dark Nimbus themes that OpenSolaris uses - they are awesome!
- 7aji, on 03/18/2009, -0/+2I don't know why you are being dugg down for just saying that??? Most programs defines black text over a white background or over a 'none' background assuming that the user should has a light one. I love dark themes because I find them easier on the eyes, but some programs would have a black text and with my dark background the text will become unreadable. I don't know if there is a way to get over it which is bad since these themes look awesome!
- inactive, on 03/18/2009, -0/+2Err, changing themes etc in GNOME (yes not ubuntu, you're changing it GNOME) is already easy enough.
- aimhelix, on 03/18/2009, -0/+2It's decent, but nothing mind-blowing.
The best part is that when I started using Ubuntu, it took me a couple of days how to edit the themes and to figure out that I needed to install Compiz & Emerald as my theme managers/editors. Even though I'm a newb, I made a dark metal theme that's very easy on the eyes and very sexy to work on. My main point is the 'themes' in Ubuntu doens't concern me as much anymore due to the fact that I can easily edit everything from the window colors to the typography used by the O/S. Wonderful thing - especially loved because I'm an interactive designer :) - shedtroll, on 04/04/2009, -0/+1http://news.softpedia.com/images/extra/LINUX/large ... Mac like, much?
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