I just wanted to make two points about the appearance of Ubuntu and Xubuntu.
1. I think Xubuntu is one of the prettiest distros out there and it is part of
the reason why I use it. Don't let the fact Ubuntu is trashed as being fugly
make you think that Xubuntu is doing something wrong as well. Xubuntu is very
polished looking. So just keep doing what you have always done.
2. The main reason Ubuntu is ugly is nothing to do with the lack of
developers/artists and everything to do with the colour scheme used. No one
says Fedora with it's professional looking blue themes is ugly, yet really the
differences between one gnome desktop to the next are not that huge. What makes
Ubuntu ugly is the colours. The combination of peachy skin tones, brown turd
tones and bright orange tones is just a design nightmare, but it has become so
entrenched as part of the defining factor of Ubuntu that no one is willing to
change it. Even Apple would struggle to make OS X look sexy if they had to use
the same colour pallet as Ubuntu. Basically until Ubuntu is willing to drop the
colour scheme they currently use and switch to something classy it is always
going to be ugly, no matter what improvements are made to the gnome desktop.
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