On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:10, Anon Y Mous wrote: >> Would Sun ever consider employing someone who has a clue about graphics >> design? >> OpenSolaris is somewhat 'half done' looking. You can really tell they >> spent time to make Ubuntu themed out to hell with the new releases. > > I have to disagree here. I think that the original OpenSolaris 2008.05 had a > beautiful dark blue "Nimbus" desktop theme that was, overall, the best > looking GNOME desktop that I've ever had in any operating system... ever! Way > better looking than syrupy looking, overly sugar-coated Mac OS X desktop or > Microsoft's blandness, and it was also much better looking than the ugly > brown stuff that Ubuntu had going on at the same time. So what ever happened > to that 2008.05 color scheme after I upgraded to newer versions of > OpenSolaris?
All that changed was the desktop backgrounds (which is in keeping with what pretty much every other desktop operating system, not just Linux distros, does with their major releases). The Nimbus theme itself has changed very little in that time. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
