I think votes are valuable. Not for seeing who likes a theme but rather who hates it. Any overly stylised theme is going to polarise people into love it/hate it camps which should be avoided at all cost. Ideally a default theme should not be even noticed by the public - being neutral and innofensive as possible should be the goal. A perfect demonstration of this is Apple, where the current theme for OSX is crips, clean, stylish and probably as neutral as you can get - no loud colours, drastic layouts or hard edges.
This problem befell the Compiz logo effort. I really hated the new one and thought the 2nd choice was a much stronger effort. While the second choice did not elicit an equal poisitive response, it also did not get the same level of hatred as the 1st choice. http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=2921 <-- thread in question. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
