1) I generally think we should avoid pixmap themes all together. They bring my box to its knees :-S, I will not comment on them here.
2) I think that all included themes should have some kind of Ubuntu feel to it. Not entirely brown or orange necesarily, but maybe a hint... In some cases green can do the trick too.
3) I think we should put suggestions on some wikipages
4) Please put screenshot links in your mails/wikipages like bvc just did
5) Suggesting a wallpaper in the theme is a nice to touch to make a complete experience. I think all themes should do that [1].
6) A theme should not be included just because its cool. It should compliment the other themes nicely, providing a coherent set of _different_ themes.
Now for some comments:
> BVC on 01/05/2006
> Smooth Blended
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=35841
> screenshot
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/35841-1.png
> these look good with the BlendedSmallSquare metacity theme, as seen in the screenshots above
There is a problem with the metacity theme in that screenie (which I also encountered with SandSkater) - namely that window borders without buttons show an "empty" button where buttons would have been. You can check this with the metacity-theme-viewer command under the "Buttons Layout" tab.
One more problem you have in Firefox and OOo where the menubar text is not white (but black) making it hard to read (and inconsistent with the rest of the desktop) - I had the exact same problem in SandSkater too.
Besides these to things I really like the Smooth-* themes...
Specifically on Smooth9, I think it might do good with a little more contrast for my olde eyes, using the flat metacity theme it might do good as a "flat" theme (again like SandkSkater). The green color could do it as the "Ubuntu touch" to me.
> For metacity themes I'll again be bias and suggest;
> Unity
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=32167
> screenshots
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/32167-1.png
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre2/32167-2.png
>
> SystemGXF
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=32169
>screenshot
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/32169-1.png
Regarding the metacity themes Unity and and System*, I think that the buttons in Unity are to flat. The System* themes look more profesional.
[1]: See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/ThemingTricks on how to do that.
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