> Would Sun ever consider employing someone who has a clue about graphics > design? > OpenSolaris is somewhat 'half done' looking. You can really tell they > spent time to make Ubuntu themed out to hell with the new releases.
I have to disagree here. I think that the original OpenSolaris 2008.05 had a beautiful dark blue "Nimbus" desktop theme that was, overall, the best looking GNOME desktop that I've ever had in any operating system... ever! Way better looking than the syrupy, overly sugar-coated Mac OS X desktop or Microsoft's blandness, and it was also much better looking than the ugly brown stuff that Ubuntu had going on at the same time. So what ever happened to that 2008.05 color scheme after I upgraded to newer versions of OpenSolaris? What I don't get, is why do we keep changing the color scheme and GDM login screen to different shades of blue from one OpenSolaris release to another? Why not just keep the original OpenSolaris 2008.05 Nimbus theme for all OpenSolaris releases? I think the original dark blue theme was perfect, and it's pretty much impossible to improve on perfection by tweaking the blue shadings around for each and every 6 month release of OpenSolaris. Plus, CDE kind of looked the same in Solaris 8, Solaris 9, and Solaris 10, so why not keep the same 2008.05 look for all OpenSolaris releases? Long term stability at both the command line and GUI interfaces is supposed to be one of the major selling points as to why people should use Solaris and not Linux. People who are thinking about migrating from Linux to OpenSolaris are tempted to do so because the hope is that after OpenSolaris is eventually "finished" and in a reasonably stable state, we will have something that won't have the constant change / upheaval / breakage that plagues most desktop Linux distros right now. Message was edited by: system5 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
