Redhat seems to be going to use a common look for their desktops (GNOME as well as KDE) in their new beta featuring a new icon set. Check out the screenshots at http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=616&mode=&order=0 I like them and i think they are impressive... It's one of the things Apple proved: desktop and apps that look smooth do make their users feel comfortable with them ;)
Apart from the question if KDE and GNOME2 should be made to look similar (KDE developers were pretty angry at RedHats step), should we try to make a "Debian" look default? (Provided that someone does Debian Themes...) This look doesn't need to be shared from GNOME2 to KDE (although i don't see the reason not to do so...) but it could make Debian become some "Brand" that looks like quality, too ;) Actually one of the reasons some people didn't like Gnome 1.4 was the default configuration... This "Distribution Theme" could also take a look at default configurations... The other way would be to leave this to upstream... GNOME2 is already pushing on having a standard GNOME2-look (which i like very much) and just distribute Defaults as-is from upstream... (although it should be easily possible to have a separate debian-common-look package or something like that...) Maybe someone could give a good reason to do so or not to do so... It could be as simple things as using the debian color as default for highlights instead of the usual default-blue for highlights many themes use... I don't have a real opinion, but i do thing that looks begin to matter for linux apps and desktops... Greetings, Erich
