I forgot to mention. I am also suggesting adjusting the current Human theme to something more "chocolate-ey" if including the themes under discussion would not be possible.
I failed to add the links to the project I was referring to. Sorry. Here it is http://code.google.com/p/gnome-colors/ Shiki-Colors gtk http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Shiki-Colors?content=86717 GNOME-Colors icon theme http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GNOME-colors?content=82562 On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:17 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote: > Ubuntu always had an earthy color scheme, one with brown and orange. > There have been a lot of discussions about this because many users have > violent reactions. However, it is difficult to veer away from the color > scheme because it defines Ubuntu very much and the rationale behind it > is reasonable. > > Perfectska04 has a famous GNOME theme suite. Probably, a lot of you are > familiar to it and are using it. He has a set of icon themes, GDM > themes, and gtk themes that have different color schemes. His latest > color scheme is the "Dust" variant. This scheme's look and feel is based > on the color of chocolate. Prior to that, he always had a "Human" > variant, which is orange. The Dust variant feels more earthy and looks > much more elegant. For some reason, I am much more comfortable with the > chocolate feel. Maybe because orange really feels cheaper. It has always > been associated with low end products and services while a dark shade of > brown, in my opinion, reminds the user of chocolate and leather. > > Shiki-Dust and GNOME-Dust fit the Ubuntu desktop very well because of > the look and feel that they create. It is earthy like the Human theme, > just more elegant, in my opinion. There may be some usability issues > because of the dark elements of the theme but the only known bug due to > its dark nature is a small color issue in Firefox which is fixed by > adding a user style mentioned in > http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Shiki-Colors?content=86717 . > > Jaunty included Dust and New Wave as alternative themes. I believe that > Shiki is much more bug-free and elegant than most themes and it is in > very active development. In fact, OpenSuSE 11.2's default theme (Sonar) > is based on the green variant, GNOME-Wise, of the theme suite. I suggest > at least including the Dust variant of GNOME-Colors to the future > versions of Ubuntu as an alternative theme to Human, if not as a > default. I understand that it has a little different set of principles > from the Human icon theme as it includes application icons. This can > easily be fixed by not including those icons, though. > > I am sending this to the Ubuntu Artwork Theme and Ayatana discussion > because its an artwork issue that can be included in the 100 papercuts. > > Here is a link to the screenshot of my desktop with the GNOME-Dust > theme. http://g.imagehost.org/view/0082/Screenshot > > Best Regards -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art