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[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxx>]

Well Gnome-Shell is glossy but in the short term the panels are quite
ugly and the brown makes it worse to look at. My point is that at the
moment compared to Mac OSX. In something as basic as the theme we have
brown. Mac has its white solid and slick. Windows has black ish grey
which also looks quite nice. So the competition has put a lot of effort
into having a good theme with a good colour. So we should change to
something a little cooler to compete, even if its only being included in
the two releases (probably) before Gnome 3.0 is included in ubuntu.
Orange is still too close to brown in my opinion. I think it isn't a
papercut but its still is related to desktop experience. 

Shane_Fagan

On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 18:46 +0200, Steve Dodier wrote:
> Just a few comments :
> 
> Orange being associated to low quality is an USA cultural specific
> issue, as far as i know. In fact, if it's almost not used in Europe, i
> don't think companies that use it are looked at as low quality at all.
> And since it's an uncommon color, it's very practical for building a
> strong standing.
> 
> I don't think an issue such as the default theme itself could be a
> paper cut at all. A theme is a lot of work (make sure it works with
> all the apps, with any kind of screen, with different luminosities),
> and i believe this is why it hasn't been changed. A default theme
> shouldn't be glossy or whatever, it should be easy to use, and I must
> say Human never went in my way, so it's a good theme on this aspect.
> 
> Cordially, SD.