If you want to make a Blue/Green theme for Ubuntu using aurora then a Theme Team is a good way...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/ThemeTeams You could get the guy that develops aurora to do it if he wanted? On Jan 5, 2008 12:55 AM, Nemes Ioan Sorin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > shadowh511 wrote: > > Thanks for the GTK theme, Ken. > > I think that it could use one thing to make it perfect. > > The color, it needs to be brown.e > > When I think of Ubuntu, I think of a clean, simple OS. the color brown > > represents cleanliness and simplicity, while blue represents sadness and > > fear. If we want to have people download hardy, why not give them a > > nice theme such as union and give them the desktop cube and the wobble > > windows and all of that eye candy. > > Hey, its an idea > > > > Hey shadowh511 > > ;) Blue is not FEAR - Blue is freedom - You can believe a designer. And > an UI designer. > > Blue OR blue + green, well combined will give you a Peace of Mind > feeling [don't think a second that $MS designers are stupid]. > > Brown will give you after a while a sensation of sadness. > Red Derived colors accelerate beat of your heart. > There is no way to use Porto / Brown themes and to have millions of lovers. > > Blue (warm blue) is a healthy color associated with peace. > Cold blue ( or cold blue + cold green ) generally mean Fresh. > > $MS for example combined (in their logo's) all 4 base colors - which > combined - will obtain the best influence for the eye of mases. Blue, > Green (Sky and Grass, Peace, Silence, Free Space) and Orange + Brown ( > which are comestibles colors [= colors used in Food's industry for > advertising especially - because human eye association { bread, burgers, > etc }]) > > So Ubuntu want to use comestible colors in general. That's not bad but > in intention (is working for commercials). > > But an OS must use neutral colors for UI - like colored grays (that's > what Solaris do now with Nimbus theme) - which must have a minimal > influence to your mind on long term [that's why they use gray + a bit of > blue in their colored gray]. Any other stories are speculations. Those > thinks are known. > > Human Eye and Hyman Brain - they have some rules which we can not change > by our own pleasure even we are Bill Gates or Bil Laden - because this > is from Nature and this rule will rule until the end. > > Those rules are known - and I asking myself why that fact does not count > here. > > Also Clearlooks (Gummy) are a pretty nice theme. What's wrong with > Clearlooks ? - can be colored at your desire - base colors are customizable. > > Also please take a look at the AURORA gtk engine, theme and proposals at: > http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Aurora+Unified+Suite+(Preview)?content=70138 > AND > http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Aurora+Gtk+Engine?content=56438 > OR take a look to my screenshoot to see Aurora in action on my desktop : > http://www.leclubyahmala.ro/aurora.html > > SO why not ask / invite the author to design for Ubuntu Artwork a theme > based on Aurora if we desperately need something "of our own". This is a > nice concept and metaphor and is almost perfect. The author is an > experienced designer and programmer hhttp://www.nanolx.org/ > > > Wait for a response from the community side about Aurora. > > Yours, > > Nemes Ioan Sorin > > > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art