Comments on: Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid) Artwork (Proposed)

By: Fernando

Fernando — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:29:51 +0000

Nice themes.
I think that there is no problem to Ubuntu share some graphical appearance with Windows.
People are free to choose which theme to use, as long as the use Linux. :-]

By: khiang

khiang — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:25:14 +0000

does it like “theme” on version 3.6 for windows? cool…

By: kaddy

kaddy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:55:52 +0000

I applaud Canonical for changing the butt ugly brown theme, but these are not good

By: Marin Ivanovski

Marin Ivanovski — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:20:32 +0000

I like the idea, but a night theme is missing. I’d really like to see a moon (blueish dark) theme. Also the idea of KB to connect the themes rotation to system clock is cool.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:07:40 +0000

I’m a big fan of the dusk and day. They should scrap the dawn one.

I like the newer design look (like Mac and Windoze), while sticking true to the core Ubuntu fashion. Nice work guys. I love this stuff.

By: KB

KB — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:24:55 +0000

someone PLEASE tie this in to the system CLOCK. These themes need to rotate automatically through
out the day

By: S.S.

S.S. — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:22:19 +0000

@Plippo

GIMP or Inkscape, it’s still ugly. Hehehehe ))

Too much colors for me…

By: Plippo

Plippo — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:05:17 +0000

Oh, and @ S.S.: It was made with Inkscape, not GIMP

By: Plippo

Plippo — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:04:35 +0000

Hi all,

thanks for the encouraging comments (and also for the criticism). I’ve uploaded a new version that addresses some of the comments (especially that about Dawn looking too Windows-like). You find it on the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Lucid/UbuntuSun

About changing the tone depending on time: Great idea, but I don’t think that this is possible. But what maybe would be possible is to select the initial theme depending on what time of day the user is installing Ubuntu…

And just to make one thing clear: This is just a proposal – I’m no member of the Ubuntu Art team, just a regular user, so I really have no influence whether this or something like that will be the default theme or even on the CD

By: Phillip

Phillip — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:28:55 +0000

I concur with mike -- make them dynamic, shifting with your time setting.

By: Waldir

Waldir — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:06:20 +0000

I like all three a lot, specially Dusk. And I disagree that it resembles MS Windows. Keep up the good work!

By: zenwalker

zenwalker — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:24:50 +0000

Day seem to be a bit blunt and not attractive than night/dusk.

Also auto change of this themese based on system time wud be good feature.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:51:46 +0000

Use all three of them. One for night time, one for morning, etc. Hook em to the real time

By: S.S.

S.S. — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:40:17 +0000

I don’t like it. It looks like somebody played with Gradient tool in GIMP.

By: L4Linux

L4Linux — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:37:56 +0000

Really cool!! I’ll use the night theme I guess.

By: digi

digi — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:07:19 +0000

I like it. I often adjust my display, as at night it is too bright, and during the day too hard to see. I sometimes use the negative feature of compiz too. This could help. I just hope that the transition will be smooth and not distracting. I also hope that the transition between black and white letters will be readable. High contrast is important.

By: Daniel de Souza Telles

Daniel de Souza Telles — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:26:55 +0000

Oh this is terrific! What about a theme auto changer with fading and synchronized with real day time? That will be so fucking awesome!

By: GodLikeCreature

GodLikeCreature — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:28:12 +0000

I think subjective taste is irrelevant. These will be appreaciated by some, hated by some, as usual. The important thing is that they look, IMHO, as a step forward in terms of look and feel.

I think these themes will also be cool for new users, who will no longer feel the urge to find something better than the default theme.

Congrats to the designers/developers, great work!

By: Mohan

Mohan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:07:52 +0000

Dusk and Day look cool, not too keen on the Dawn one.

By: Yaron Shahrabani

Yaron Shahrabani — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:34:03 +0000

Reminds me of Win7 and since Win7 looks pretty good I can say the same thing about these designs