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[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxx>]

Personally another earthy colour scheme isn't what im looking for. I
like notify-osd I think its slick but at the moment its a little out of
place with the desktop look. So in that way maybe making a darker theme
to match might work well but not brown please not brown. Like a light
grey might be nice IMO. 
The gnome-colors thing sounds very interesting I think it should be
looked into. It would solve the issues of themes and colour. It seems a
little limited though it only has 6 different colours but it is a step
in the right direction. The one thing we have to keep in mind that space
on the cd is limited so anything we add will have to be fairly small. 

Regards 
Shane_Fagan

On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:24 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote:
> 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 
> 
> 
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