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[Allan Caeg <allancaeg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I forgot to mention. I am also suggesting adjusting the current Human
theme to something more "chocolate-ey" if including the themes under
discussion would not be possible. 

I failed to add the links to the project I was referring to. Sorry.

Here it is http://code.google.com/p/gnome-colors/

Shiki-Colors gtk
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Shiki-Colors?content=86717

GNOME-Colors icon theme
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GNOME-colors?content=82562


On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:17 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote:
> Ubuntu always had an earthy color scheme, one with brown and orange.
> There have been a lot of discussions about this because many users have
> violent reactions. However, it is difficult to veer away from the color
> scheme because it defines Ubuntu very much and the rationale behind it
> is reasonable. 
> 
> Perfectska04 has a famous GNOME theme suite. Probably, a lot of you are
> familiar to it and are using it. He has a set of icon themes, GDM
> themes, and gtk themes that have different color schemes. His latest
> color scheme is the "Dust" variant. This scheme's look and feel is based
> on the color of chocolate. Prior to that, he always had a "Human"
> variant, which is orange. The Dust variant feels more earthy and looks
> much more elegant. For some reason, I am much more comfortable with the
> chocolate feel. Maybe because orange really feels cheaper. It has always
> been associated with low end products and services while a dark shade of
> brown, in my opinion, reminds the user of chocolate and leather. 
> 
> Shiki-Dust and GNOME-Dust fit the Ubuntu desktop very well because of
> the look and feel that they create. It is earthy like the Human theme,
> just more elegant, in my opinion. There may be some usability issues
> because of the dark elements of the theme but the only known bug due to
> its dark nature is a small color issue in Firefox which is fixed by
> adding a user style mentioned in
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Shiki-Colors?content=86717 . 
> 
> Jaunty included Dust and New Wave as alternative themes. I believe that
> Shiki is much more bug-free and elegant than most themes and it is in
> very active development. In fact, OpenSuSE 11.2's default theme (Sonar)
> is based on the green variant, GNOME-Wise, of the theme suite. I suggest
> at least including the Dust variant of GNOME-Colors to the future
> versions of Ubuntu as an alternative theme to Human, if not as a
> default. I understand that it has a little different set of principles
> from the Human icon theme as it includes application icons. This can
> easily be fixed by not including those icons, though. 
> 
> I am sending this to the Ubuntu Artwork Theme and Ayatana discussion
> because its an artwork issue that can be included in the 100 papercuts. 
> 
> Here is a link to the screenshot of my desktop with the GNOME-Dust
> theme. http://g.imagehost.org/view/0082/Screenshot
> 
> Best Regards