Comments on: Interesting Early Artwork for Intrepid Ibex

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:01:54 +0000

I love Ubuntu. It works so damned well! But I hate the all pervasive orange and brown, even in the icon sets of OpenOffice. It is a weak, pathetic, annoying colour. It doesn’t do anything for me. I’s not sexy, just annoying. The first thing I do after installing Ubuntu is change all the themes. Everything, just to get rid of the brown and orange! The only thing I don’t know how to do is get rid of the icon set in things like OpenOffice and Evolution. I have now downloaded Thunderbird and Sunbird just so that I can avoid the orange in Evolution. I am consdering removing OpenOffice and reinstalling the original from OpenOffice.org.

Man, I hate that brown and orange colour scheme. Some people like it, but so, so many hate it.

Hey, you guys at Canonical, if you love brown and orange so much and just have to have it, then OK, have it. But give the rest of us another choice. Please. How about something in teal color (see Ubunteal at Gnome-look).

By: ubuntuuser

ubuntuuser — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:28:40 +0000

I don’t like this theme. It’s very ugly.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:30:33 +0000

The Dark Brown Theme is Looking Lovely but th Background Art Work is looking Nasty.Now Because Ubuntu is a South African Linux Distro , Why Not have some Art Work from African.Art Work like the land Scape and Animals , People.

By: TayzGpa

TayzGpa — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:02:29 +0000

I am trying to be an exWindows person and am using Ubuntu 8.04 as much as I can. I really would like to see some other other color besides the dark browns, etc. It’s almost depressing looking at the drab colors when working in Ubuntu.
I have tried Kubuntu and like it’s color scheme, but I like the Ubuntu distro better for it’s software.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:34:36 +0000

I am happy to see some new themes… but I’m a little disappointed to hear they’re keeping the ugly orange and brown.

YES, I know I can change those colors and likely will… but it’s ugly. I think some people just use Kubuntu for its blue theme.

By: Orlando

Orlando — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:58:58 +0000

All this themes are ugly, they look geeky and amateurish. Wanna see something beautiful? Take a look at Mac OS or Vista!! Ubuntu needs to drop the oranges and browns, it looks like…

By: Nitrowing

Nitrowing — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:35:52 +0000

Why hasn’t someone made a CSI type GUI?

By: freibooter

freibooter — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:49:01 +0000

About the “Clear”-theme:

“My only concern is that it could be too dark” … personally, my only concern is, that it’s a horrible, ugly usability nightmare.
Just look at that thing, it looks hopelessly unprofessional and it makes the content of the windows almost illegible, that’s how bad the contrasts and colors were chosen. And the author even believes that it looks ok like that since he considers his mockup and planning stages final.

“Kith” at least seems to be going in the right direction. While revision .2 is still far from a great or even a good theme, the author shows some knowledge about usability and design which is more than most mock-up artists for Ubuntu ever do. And at least the usability wouldn’t suffer much even if revision .2 would be implemented.

Oh how much I long for a clean, professional and high quality theme for Ubuntu.

By: bamm

bamm — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:24:57 +0000

I wonder if the visual refresh also applies to Kubuntu?

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:59:33 +0000

Both those themes (Clear & Kith) are really nasty looking. If they use either of those I can tell you now that the people who bitterly complain about Ubuntu being fugly will not be silenced.

People want Ubuntu to move away from the browns and peach colours. Simply doing a more glossy version of this or any other sort of variation is not going to do it. People want a real design shift towards something sexy.

I sometimes think Ubuntu would be better off if they just played it safe and copied Fedora through and through, cept where Blue is used instead use orange. Their own designs just don’t cut it.