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[Przemek Kulczycki <przemekkulczycki@xxxxxxxxx>]

Talking about artwork, why don't why also change the cursor theme to
something dark or black?
A dark/black cursor will be more visible for most people, because:
a) Ubuntu uses a light-coloured theme
b) most webpages have a white background
This is especially visible when you hover your mouse cursor over a
text field - a white text cursor on a white background is almost
invisible.
What do you think about it?
Regards,
Przemek

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Shane Fagan<shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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