I saw it :-) I have always been very boring, and just got on with what ever default theme was given to me by my distro. So I generally don't have much of an opinion in this area.
So - a go for it from me. The less delta we have from xubuntu, the easier it is to get help from those guys. Cheers, Ross On 08/05/2016 09:12 PM, Set Hallstrom wrote: > Hi all, > > Bellow i paste this email i sent Thu, 28 Jul 2016 to ask you for your > opinion. It got nested in another thread, so i break it lose to make > sure everyone sees it. > > ( > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/2016-July/007973.html > ) > > Since feature freeze is around the corner, if no one objects before > Sunday 7th august, i will proceed and do the changes from greybird to > numix as default theme with ubuntu studio blue as highligt color, and > switch from murrine to shimmer as xubuntu have done. > > Yours, > Set > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Shimmer and numix (was: unmet dependencies) > Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:48:33 +0200 > From: Set Hallstrom <s...@ubuntustudio.org> > Reply-To: Ubuntu Studio Development <ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com> > Organization: Ubuntu Studio > To: ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > > [snip] > > I've been looking into the theme thing with krytarik. As is now, we ship > ubuntu studio with greybird as default theme. Last time we discussed the > theme/look of the desktop, i want to remember many of us agreed on > finding a darker theme. > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/murrine-themes > http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/shimmer-themes > > Both Murrine and Shimmer have greybird (our default theme atm). But > shimmer is shipped with Numix. And Numix is a pretty excellent theme. > > The cons as i see them for Numix are these: > > - The way focused windows differentiate themselves from other (same as > greybird) > - The very thin window border makes it hard to catch the corners to > resize (same as gryebird) > > The pros: > > - It hear it is well maintained, like gerybird. > - While it is dark, unlike most dark-themes you never get problems with > webpage searchboxes displaying white text on white background. > > The default highlight color of numix is red, but krytarik found a fix > from xubuntu unicorn to address this and let us have ubuntustudio blue > instead. > > So, if i sound like i am pushing for a shift from murrine to shimmer and > for shipping 16.10 with numix as default theme and window header, you > got me alright. :D But of course, we need to agree on it first. > > What are your thoughts, team? > > Yours, > > > -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
