Well, I can't join, as I am not an artist. But I would like to suggest you that though Aero is not a that much good theme for work, just eyecandy, but OSX looks simple, clean, high contrast and non-boring (original OSX Theme). So, when you are designing a new theme, concentrate over these keywords. Clearlooks too was such great hit because of it.
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 00:47 +0200, Steph wrote: > Hi everybody, first thing I'll ask is to forgive my English, I'm > French. > > It has been said on the french forum that Ubuntu was actually very > ugly. Go to your friends's houses, boot on the Live CD and you'll see > most of them saying "creepy ! I'll keep Vista !". And we have to admit > that the only good thing in Vista is the Aero interface. No need to > talk about OSX, it has always been quite beautiful, and no wonder why > the most downloaded themes on Gnome-Look.org are some OSX look-alike > ones. > > Now check Ubuntu's default themes. Human and Glossy are correct, other > ones are really old and ugly. On the seven themes integrated, two > looks correct, but still old, and the other ones are just as beautiful > as Win95. Why can't we add a few modern themes ? Just one or two, that > could replace the Crux or Glider themes (have a look). > > See, Ubuntu aims to be a distro for everyone. Mr Everyone is not > stupid, but still he's often a n00b :D . So the thing he's gonna look > first is design. How to convince Mr Everyone Ubuntu's a great OS ? By > showing him a nice design, something that looks clear, simple and > efficace. Then everything will "Just Work" and all this on a nice > theme :). > > Now, the solutions. If everyone agrees of course. I've talked a little > with Brian Ward (author of this nice orb : > http://www.brianward.us/myspace/public/ubuntu-orb.png :) and agreeing > to what I just said, we told that creating a totally new theme would > be some really hard work, and with the tons of themes available on > Gnome-look.org, would be time wasted. So what we thought was to make a > selection of the best themes on Gnome-look.org (Aero and OSX-like > excluded of course), then try to mix everything in a new, fresh, > modern themes. > > Who wanna join ? :) -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
