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[Patrik Bubák <bubapa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to propose (not to anyone, guys, I'm straight), that despite the fact that we are sworn to promote a pure GNOME desktop experience, I believe it's not a violation of that rule if we, by default, with the next cycle start to include also nice shell theme(s) of our choice giving our users a variety to start with, which would directly follow the philosophy of a beautiful and functional operating system working out of the box; if they do not like the default GNOME shell theme (which is btw the first thing most users change).



With that we can guarantee:


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stability and functionality

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provide a soothing desktop experience


Additionally we would make formal contact with the developer of that particular theme and ask for future cooperation as quality insurance and also motivate the developer to maintain their theme for future releases/propose modification suggestions.



My proposal would be the fantastically looking Zukitwo GNOME shell theme in both a light and dark variant that I am using and can't praise enough.



I will not post screenshots, as they are unnecessary and more convincing is to try the theme out yourselves. You will not regret it. For me Zukitwo provides the smoothest GNOME shell look.




Nothing ruins creativity like too many voices weighing in. We call it the Ice Cream Principle. Tell 10 people to go get ice cream with one condition: they all have to agree on one flavour. That flavour is going to be chocolate or vanilla every time. Groups of people don't agree on what's cool or interesting, they agree on what's easy to agree on.