Hey all. This is my first atempt to activly join an open source project, although I'm using Ubuntu for about two years by now.
Short intro: My Name is Günther Beyer, I'm an interface-designer from Germany, using Gimp and Inkscape, doing icons, illustrations and mockups of all kinds. Here are my thoughts on the Hardy theme: First of all I followed the discussion between the two main approches - The Mac like interface from Neil J Patel and the darker theme derived from Ubuntustudio. I wonder, why we should at any time imitate Vista or Leopard. Why not use the best of both worlds and add a little extra Ubuntu-linux flavour? If we want Ubuntu to look like Leopard, why not just wait for Kubuntu featuring KDE 4 - compare: http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/2007/11/decisionsdecisionsdecisions-so-many.html http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=382776013&size=o http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2006/07/02%20Peek.jpg I think we should go down the other way and try a darker theme with the style and astetics of Neils mockups. There were many of my friends, who went from Windows to Ubuntu, just because of thouse fancy 3D effects. Why not try to repeat this again? As somebody truly pointet out, that new users are drawn to a desktop because of its looks, not if the usability is much better than the competitors ones, see Vista. The transparencies are horrible concerning interaction, but still today people tell me how great Vista looks and how much they love it. Anybody who's doing office work on Ubuntu can change the theme to a lighter one with an handfull of clicks. All the other ones will be drawn to that darker, unique one. Imho Open Moko has a good start on an orange-black interface, but it looks a little cheap. Maybe we could start here and try to merge this with Neils stuff. The only problem I see is the fact, that I don't know, how to get black and orange into an theme, tha looks both extraodynary and business-style. Here's a first test: http://guentherbeyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ubuntu_804_theme_test_02b.png Cheerz Günther -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
