'Human' theme and Professionalism...

[jzke]

I've heard a lot of people accuse the default Human GTK theme to not be professional enough, that the '3D' gradients used in menu highlights are distracting and should be taken out. Why? Ubuntu isn't a professional distribution, it is "Linux for Humans". I'm certainly not suggesting it be turned into KDE (no offense) with all it's colourful crystal icons and the likes, I just mean to say that eye-candy is GOOD. It's what ordinary users want. Ever wondered why users that aren't tech-savvy love the look of Mac OS X? Because it looks slick and it's full of eye-candy, yet still remains slick and almost professional.

Bring on the eye candy... especially in any new Human icon sets!

[lorenzo]

I do agree with you.
One of the reason I'm preferring gnome over kde, lately, is its more "warm" look. I'm quite bored of blue/gray sharp squared styles. As a matter of fact it took me a while to get used to brown colours and to "human" theme. But now I use always more warm colours themes, more red, orange, yellow.... some "autumn leaves" styles.
And I do use ubuntu "professionally"....

Lorenzo

[tristan]

I think the default look of ubuntu is certainly very polished and different enough from the blue tinted default desktops prevalent on many other distributions. It's definitely not amateurish, just different! I've installed ubuntu on a few friend's boxes and all of them "oohed" and "aahed" when the ubuntu gnome desktop 1st appeared :)

On any distro I've ever used the very first thing I do is change the default background and window theme, and I'm sure the vast majority of other users do too. Ubuntu makes this just as easy as any other distro.

It seems a lot of people switch immediately to clearlooks (me included), which gives a slightly less garishly 3D look. It'd be interesting to see how many people prefer human to clearlooks. A ubuntu tinted clearlooks theme (I set one up for myself) looks pretty nice and could just as easily be made a default theme.

On the other hand, while I love using gnome, the default gnome icons leave me a bit cold. I'd also love to see human themed icons (and bug free xcompmgr window shadows too!).

[jzke]

Yes I just posted in another thread, basically saying we need a dedicated Human Icon theme made from scratch. The current 'Human' theme is a mixture of everything. What I think really needs to happen is Ubuntu art people need to go through and create an icon theme to replace EVERY icon used in Gnome to match. Imagine that, it would make the distro ever so smooth and sleek looking... *dreams*

[tristan]

Just browsing that thread too!

Human icons - bring em on!!!

PS All .svg too!