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- trogdoor, on 08/23/2008, -19/+333This is not a simple "very easily doable" change. Nautilus for one looks almost unrecognizably different, not just a different theme but an entirely different layout. Going with a composited dock is not an option for those that cannot, or do not want to run compiz. Without a composite manager all that neat transparency becomes a beautiful rectangular block and "falling back" to a standard gnome-panel is not an option, the default interface can't just randomly change that drastically. That is just at a glance. This "mockup" was not designed with any consideration of making something viable. PLEASE don't spam IRC, Digg, or any other place trying to get this "theme" to be made, let alone demand that this non-existant theme be made the default for Intrepid.
- inactive, on 08/23/2008, -5/+178Why would you want Ubuntu to look like a 404 page?
- Darkhacker, on 08/23/2008, -2/+115This may sound like a stupid complaint, but one of the biggest reasons I don't like dark themes is that there is such a stark contrast between it and a web page with a white background that it looks ugly when browsing the web. If the website also had a dark theme I wouldn't mind. And strangely, I don't seem to mind light themes when visiting dark websites.
- kirk23, on 08/23/2008, -3/+85Mirror:
http://www.valeriovalerio.org/images/Ubuntu_Mockup ... - willwillywilson, on 08/23/2008, -16/+85Give me this anyday: http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/7/73 ...
- amdlinux, on 08/23/2008, -12/+70Shuttleworth is a brilliant guy but has a really strange taste when it comes to colours and appearance. He will not allow this, I fear.
The current colours / theme are /is so incredibly ugly (except the Heron background pic) that you know that Ubuntu is really good on the technical side to hedge its ugly appearance. Just thinking of the pinkish / meatish colour of the current standard GDM screen makes me puke :-( - ambiescent, on 08/23/2008, -1/+51Here are more proposed themes, which I think are more feasible. (not just because one of them is mine)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/ ...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/ ...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/ ... - stikkitjim, on 08/23/2008, -3/+51I dont even know where to start -
1. Too much change. Learning fro other's mistakes (ahem... vista) radical interface changes are damaging to the "old dog new tricks" crowd of people, who are still learning to familiarise themselves with the old interface.
2. What's this fascination with Docks!? I hate the things... so much wasted real estate on the bottom left and right of the screen... yea i know I can hide it, but I also like working with things at the bottom of the window without a poxy dock popping up. - elambing, on 08/23/2008, -0/+38the first one looks really good, i like how its sort of minimalist :D
- alexnb185, on 08/23/2008, -1/+38I do however like this theme more:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/ ... - TheWedge, on 08/23/2008, -1/+38You really know how to get new recruits.
- Ratty, on 08/23/2008, -5/+39That looks terrible.
- paulvq, on 08/23/2008, -2/+35Crime against "humanity"? Clever.
- Vadi0, on 08/23/2008, -6/+35http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/2371/screenshot015G ... is the current reality, if you're going for that...
- JakeW, on 08/23/2008, -12/+41So... you're only preference to an OS is that it looks pretty? Not the fact that it's free, open-source, less viruses, faster, and not a poly-nopoly?
Cool. - zcreem, on 08/23/2008, -0/+29Ah! the good old days, when men were men and interfaces were crap.
- n0odles, on 08/23/2008, -40/+67Very ugly.
- mickstephenson, on 08/23/2008, -2/+26Mock up's for the most part are a big waste of time unless the "man with a plan" actually has the skill to implement it. Guess what, perhaps what the art team are lacking isn't you're artistic genius and photoshop skillz, but people who will actually learn how to theme and create themes.
- jakereilly, on 08/23/2008, -0/+24They really need to ditch TheSans as a system font. Looks absolutely horrid.
- UKsHaDoW, on 08/23/2008, -0/+22Since its already designed.
The programmer has to implement it, and I'm not sure gtk is capable of this type of theming. Its got gradients everywhere etc. The apps are completely different layouts. - inactive, on 08/23/2008, -18/+40fugly
- leejarratt, on 08/23/2008, -3/+25Vugly
^_^ - Tribis, on 08/23/2008, -1/+19It just looks like it looks now, but dark and with a dock.
- jugglingjon, on 08/23/2008, -1/+19Don't you think that's the goal of some distributions, like Ubuntu?
I agree this guy just wants a Mac but doesn't realize it yet. - 3242130193, on 08/23/2008, -2/+20Metacity supports compositing so I think you can run awn with metacity - not 100% sure though.
I sure wish you could run awn without compositing though, it's still damn useful without the effects. - sloppychris, on 08/23/2008, -0/+17They're just testing that new theme, the newest beta went back to the old one.
- Darkaged, on 08/23/2008, -0/+16I think that the look of Windows 3 would increase my productivity.
- MicronXD, on 08/23/2008, -7/+23yay dddos'ed
Digg Distributed Denial of Service - andywatts, on 08/23/2008, -0/+15Agreed. The white background in browser does kinda kill it.
Coding in a dark shell rocks tho.
Vim with syntax highlighting works great. - mirunit, on 08/23/2008, -2/+18Like KDE?
- PaulRay, on 08/23/2008, -0/+14I also like the first one. In fact it looks really similar to what I'm using now.
This theme (I'm guessing it's your design) seems very well thought out. I like the neutral colors since they don't influence your eye whan looking at artwork.
If anyone cares, here's what I'm using now.
Dark Ice with XNTricity and Black-White 2 neon. Only real difference is that my theme is glossy. - defrex, on 08/23/2008, -1/+14Dark themes will always look like ***** in firefox. It's not firefox's fault, it's web designers who don't take dark widgets into consideration.
- fuhrysteve, on 08/23/2008, -0/+13it looks kinda slick, but it's not *that* impressive.
- Gneisbaard, on 08/23/2008, -2/+15Do not want
- inactive, on 08/23/2008, -0/+12What it needs is better dual screen support.
I've got Hardy Heron dual booted with XP, and I rarely touch Hardy Heron because I cannot make changes to my xorg.conf file for dualscreen X| - Aitese, on 08/23/2008, -2/+14It's not about closed or open source...it's about permission. Nvidia own their drivers and no one has the right to go packaging them into their distro without permission...which Ubuntu doesn't have.
- dorkdork777, on 08/23/2008, -0/+12Thank you!
- magic6435, on 08/23/2008, -1/+13It already works perfect so yea looks maybe the only thing holding some people back.
- Aitese, on 08/23/2008, -2/+13@InorganicMatter
Oh wow!!! You're right!!! *****! I'm sure NO ONE has ever just thought to ASK for permission to freely give away someone else's property! *****, why hasn't anyone thought of this before? Here we are pirating stuff when we could have just fired off an email and ASKED for ***** free! Thank you...thank you SO much. - inactive, on 08/23/2008, -0/+10Yes, metacity supports compositing, but you still need to have GL desktop running, which means that you must have graphics drivers installed.
- isntreal, on 08/23/2008, -0/+10That is not the picture from the thumbnail.
- daxz, on 08/23/2008, -2/+12why the transparent window borders if the application itself is opaque?
- ArthurArchnix, on 08/23/2008, -2/+12GDM = Greeter Displaying Meat.
- ywwg, on 08/23/2008, -2/+11Compositing just means you can't get transparency. You can still have shaped windows, which gets you most of the way there
- stimpack, on 08/23/2008, -0/+9Docks are horrific at the best of times and a large bottom dock on a widescreen display leaves me speechless.
The rest looks quite nice. - inactive, on 08/23/2008, -2/+11Needs more orange.
- Greg2k, on 08/23/2008, -7/+16Why do Linux icons always look amateurish? Both Apple and Microsoft go totally out of their way to make some awesome looking icons...isn't there anybody in the Linux community who can come up with professional looking icons?
- Aitese, on 08/23/2008, -2/+11Basically you're the sort of guy who says "You're trying to tell time on a Seiko? Why not buy a Breitling?"
People want the same level of stability and usability and an attractive desktop to boot with the equipment they own now, a level of openness and at an affordable price...I'm puzzled that such a concept confuses you. - burjzyntski, on 08/23/2008, -2/+11BECAUSE IT'S OPEN SOURCE!
You need to learn some more about how linux works; ubuntu is not the only way. Read up on "window managers" and you will see that there is more out there than Gnome (ubuntu's default window manager), so yes, things CAN be totally "overhauled", as you put it. - abbathdoom, on 08/23/2008, -2/+11You are preaching to the wrong person. I use Xubuntu and are well aware of what a window manager is. Fact is, since 7.10 came out they have been on about giving Ubuntu a visual overhaul and nothing has yet happened except for a few photoshop mockups. If he was serious about making changes he would have hired someone to make changes already.
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