Dark Nimbus is still available as a theme option in b130.
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 15:33 +0000, Calum Benson wrote: > 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.
