On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Mario Spinthiras <spinthiras.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok. This is about as far as I go with Ubuntu (desktop). The server is > progressing in exactly the right direction. But for the love of God! , what > is going on with the visuals? It has been "brown" for as long as I remember, > and now it is moving toward yellow. That is more than enough reason to know > it will look horrible on my macbook screen. > > Take into consideration that lots of people in the blogosphere have been > moaning about this for a long time and Canonical still hasn't pulled through > with this. The fact that Ubuntu looks appalling in terms of theming is not a > shallow statement. After all, I'm not the only Linux geek with an opinion > like this. > > In any case, something has to be done, urgently, before people decide to > start using Amigas again =)
I think they choose an ugly default theme, so that the users will absolutely have to change to another one. And there are some nice ones in this release, including a rotating wallpaper with photos from space :) Now the brown window titles and the bad looking gradients in gdm are another story... -- Θάνος Λευτέρης http://thanos.lefteris.info
