Shuttleworth: "Pretty is a feature"

[slimdog360]

I wonder why a dull brown was chosen as the theme colour then??

[CarpKing]

I wonder why a dull brown was chosen as the theme colour then??

It isn't meant as a "dull" brown, it's meant as a "warm" and "earthy" brown.

[towsonu2003]

it would be so nice if part of that "beautifulness" aim included pressuring video card manufacturers to release better drivers (if not release them under gpl or similar)... compiz wants you to have good 3d, meaning good drivers... but that's utopia

[slimdog360]

It isn't meant as a "dull" brown, it's meant as a "warm" and "earthy" brown.

It seems what they meant to do and what they did do have been two different things. At least in my eyes that is.

[daou]

It seems what they meant to do and what they did do have been two different things. At least in my eyes that is.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Thats why we have countless themes .

[Brunellus]

It seems what they meant to do and what they did do have been two different things. At least in my eyes that is.

I happen to like brown. It's the colour of skin (for most of humanity). It's the colour of the earth. It's warm & comforting. And it makes the default desktop different from a BILLION other cool-blue-desktops. Except Kubuntu. Kubuntu uses Kool Blue Kolours.

[Henry Rayker]

I'm kind of tired of all of the people who whine and moan about the default colors. I haven't used a grey and blue theme on Windows since Win98. I used the default XP theme for about a minute before changing it.

Additionally, there isn't possibly one default theme that can please every possible user.

I like brown. If they took brown away, I would just put it back. On my RedHat station at work, I use a variant of the Human theme, just because the blues and all felt too cold and detached.

[greggh]

I'm kind of tired of all of the people who whine and moan about the default colors. I haven't used a grey and blue theme on Windows since Win98. I used the default XP theme for about a minute before changing it.

Additionally, there isn't possibly one default theme that can please every possible user.

I like brown. If they took brown away, I would just put it back. On my RedHat station at work, I use a variant of the Human theme, just because the blues and all felt too cold and detached.

What you're saying is true, but I find it annoying that there is not even one non-brown theme to choose from as an option that's included with the standard install. Come on, can't the Ubuntu folks throw us a bone and include one blue desktop as an option in the distro?

[Brunellus]

What you're saying is true, but I find it annoying that there is not even one non-brown theme to choose from as an option that's included with the standard install. Come on, can't the Ubuntu folks throw us a bone and include one blue desktop as an option in the distro?

A single-CD distro is like a haiku. One theme fits. You could argue that it would be trivial to include a few more themes if emacs and nano weren't shipped with Ubuntu, though.

[happy-and-lost]

Sorry... but the muddy salmon colour in Edgy does nothing for me.

Everything else is sexy though