Earth, Sky Intrepid Colors

[Afoot]

I think the darker brown and the orange don't go well together. Something that looks nicer is brown and blue. Take a look.

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1308/blue1vz2.th.png (http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blue1vz2.png)

Original.

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/4215/209360eq4.th.png (http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=209360eq4.png)

[aimran]

Class!

[linuxisfree]

Yes, i agree. Something about THAT combination of blue and brown seems just right.:D

[Masoris]

I think the darker brown and the orange don't go well together. Something that looks nicer is brown and blue. Take a look.

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1308/blue1vz2.th.png (http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blue1vz2.png)

Original.

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/4215/209360eq4.th.png (http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=209360eq4.png)

Yes. You're right. But I still don't like intrepid default theme. Blue theme and brown wallpaper is better than it.

[madjr]

I think the darker brown and the orange don't go well together. Something that looks nicer is brown and blue. Take a look.

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1308/blue1vz2.th.png (http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blue1vz2.png)

Original.

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/4215/209360eq4.th.png (http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=209360eq4.png)


you could say that it looks now more like ubuntu studio

[dizee]

the problem with blue is that everyone uses it. it doesn't give ubuntu a unique identity.

[aaaantoine]

I'm gonna have to go ahead and say I don't like either one.

The grey panels really bug me. They remind me of some old DOS-based non-windows GUIs. Actually, it kinda reminds me of Cinelerra... and Cinelerra's default skin is hideous.

Completely unrelated, I wonder if the Gnome devs have ever thought about adding a Gradient option for coloring the panels.

[VitaLiNux]

the problem with blue is that everyone uses it. it doesn't give ubuntu a unique identity.
I agree!

[MaxIBoy]

Completely unrelated, I wonder if the Gnome devs have ever thought about adding a Gradient option for coloring the panels.

I've wanted that for a while. But what I want even more is an animated texture for window borders and panels. It would make the fire-ification of my interface complete!

[Afoot]

the problem with blue is that everyone uses it. it doesn't give ubuntu a unique identity.
The blue would just be accompanying the main color, brown. :)

[Nessa]

All the nice colors are already taken though.

[amazingtaters]

I think the colours of Ubuntu are nice. I prefer the orange tones over the brown, but overall I think it is a solid and unique combination. What's really the matter with that theme is the dark grey everywhere. It's just awful. So many different kinds of ugly. What it really needs is lighter panels, an off white or perhaps something semi-transparent. All I know is, I will be changing the theme straight back to my current custom setup asap when I move to Intrepid come early August.

[Mr. Picklesworth]

I still stand by my white / light grey with occasional orange highlights. Highlight colours on anything that doesn't require the user's attention, however, is simply a bad idea.

[Calmeida]

I cant say I prefer the blue one either really.

I hated and hate the brownish/orange world, but I have come to learn to live with adaptations of it for pure principle. In short, I want a OS to look as "standard" as possible. Sadly, Ubuntu is so ugly I cant accept to maintain the original appearance and feel forced to make a few changes here and there to be able to live with it at all.

To sum it all up, the Ubuntuteam lies years behind when it comes to the esthetical parts of a OS. Years! And what we've seen from the Intrepid changes so far, they are not making any major progress in that field.

Good thing they have other strong sides so we can keep loving it.

[Superkoop]

the problem with blue is that everyone uses it. it doesn't give ubuntu a unique identity.

If making Ubuntu more unique, is more important than making it look good, somebody needs some sense smacked into them.

Good looks > uniqueness

[acelin]

Grr this isnt brown, its me of a flat ash color, and it is horrible.

[acelin]

All the nice colors are already taken though.

Except for white.

Mac=Grey

Windows= Gray/Blue

Ubuntu= its off white with orange stuff.

Ubuntu with white=beautiful and heavenly.

[Saint Angeles]

Intrepid could have like, 4 default themes:

Fire - Red, Orange, Yellow
Water - Dark Blue, Teal
Earth - Brown, Green
Wind - White, Blue

is this a good idea?

[Afoot]

Except for white.

Mac=Grey

Windows= Gray/Blue

Ubuntu= its off white with orange stuff.

Ubuntu with white=beautiful and heavenly.
White is too bright...

[mcduck]

Completely unrelated, I wonder if the Gnome devs have ever thought about adding a Gradient option for coloring the panels.

Actually they have included option to use whatever graphics you want in your panels, including transparent or partially transparent images. ;)

If you want a gradient in your panel it takes about 2 minutes with Gimp or Inkscape to create one, then you can just drag&drop it into the panel..

Anyway, that particular blue does indeed work well with the II theme, but I'd presonally rather stay away from anything that resembles the blue&grey theme used in Windows since the times of 3.1,a and in all OS X versions. I can hardly imagine any color combination that would be more boring.. :D

[acelin]

Nah bro. It looks beautiful if done right. You dont make it perfectly white, and excessively use gradients.