Álvaro Medina Ballester wrote:
Hi everyone!
First of all I want to say that I find Ubuntu's brown (and orange)
theme very distinctive, and that is great. And also Mark is giving us
good news from LinuxWorld, I think that Ubuntu is changing Open Source
OSs and is bringing people who doesn't have the knowledge to use a
Linux based machine a very good, stable and easy to use operating
system.
Yesterday i was looking to Fedora theme, light blue and, in my opinion,
child-like icons (it seems a distro for kids, not very serious and ugly
colors). These icons are not realistic, and is quite hard to
distinguish the function of each one.
For example, in this
image is hard to know that the Icon for Internet menu represents that
function or that sub-menu. I think that in Ubuntu we have to make icons
that really represents their function but we have to give them a good
design. Maybe making simple icons as Fedora is not a good option. I
really like NuoveXT designs. They are reallistic, easy to identify with
their action and very eye-candy. Another thing about the icons is the
colour. I'm not agree with making all icons with brown/orange/red
shades. We can keep Ubuntu style without making all icons with the same
tones, but I think that we're going on the right way. Applications menu
has very nice icons and very distinctive forms and colors. But in my
opinion, the next step is more reallistic icons.
On the other hand, I want to criticize the Ubuntu default theme. In my
opinion is a very good theme, but we can improve it a lot. Maybe is
very good to make Ubuntu distinctive, but this is not the only goal. We
have to pay attention to another things. I think that working on a
computer is like working on a desk, for example. If you're working in
the office and the walls are orange or it has red dots with green
background, is very hard to concentrate, but is very easy to get sick
of your work place. I know that Ubuntu is not so extreme, but I think
that we have to find shades that help the user to get a great
experience. Desktop has to be relaxing and inspiring, and we can
achieve this goal, keeping Ubuntu spirit. I think that the goal is a
perfect balance between this two concepts: distinctive
and user friendly. But we can pull up on the graphic, keeping the
balance, to get a great desktop experience and eye candy desktop. I
really like Murrine Gtk theme, it's simple, clean and very eye-candy
and it can be perfect for Edgy.
Now I'm workingin in a few improvements that we can do to Edgy artwork,
most of all about the aspect of gnome panels and notification icons. I
hope that exams allow me to do it in the next week. Finally I want to
apologize about my english, I'm working on it also!
Álvaro
Note, on Fedora Core 6, the Bluecurve icons are being replaced by what
I think is a very nice new set called "Echo"
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/EchoDevelopment
Also, I actually find Bluecurve to be very nice and professional,
notice that those icons originated from a version of Red Hat Linux
released in 2002, that's when Bluecurve (and Gnome 2.0) debuted. Back
then we didn't have fancy Metacity themes, Clearlooks, or XGL and
related! Industrial and Bluecurve were the 2 big ones back then...
Viper550
Viper550
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