I think it's stuck with that look because they aimed for the new splash screen software... Or because they wanted newbies to have a "stable" picture of ubuntu as an operating system. Either way, we just have to wait and see the next stable version, 10.04! Btw, there is a package with community themes, I forgot the name unfortunately (community-themes maybe? apt search it!). :-)
On 10/29/09, Thanos Lefteris <alefte...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- Sent from my mobile device
