I know, it was more a joke. Clearly another British American humor clash. 2010/1/19 Anon Y Mous <music_analyst at yahoo.com>: >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org >
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