Mark Shuttleworth has been bothered enough about themes. He should know where priorities stand so far with the desktop edition. I am not blaming him nor insulting him, I am just reminding him what hundreds, possibly thousands of others have already bothered him with.
With the release of gnome 3 , everything will have to change. This is something Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical or anyone else cannot stop from happening. Projects such as gnome-shell will revolutionize certain aspects of the traditional desktop we know. I am hoping that within this revolution, someone will actually grab a palette and fix the brown disaster known as the "human" theme. M.