I'm going to have to throw my name in on this one; the old artwork wasn't great, but it was at least decent.
This new stuff looks like a 14-year old got ahold of photoshop in 1997 and picked up the eye candy filters. Blech! -- Regression in usplash artwork https://launchpad.net/bugs/44339 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
