[ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

[Who]

If you want to make a Blue/Green theme for Ubuntu using aurora then a
Theme Team is a good way...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/ThemeTeams

You could get the guy that develops aurora to do it if he wanted?

On Jan 5, 2008 12:55 AM, Nemes Ioan Sorin <nemes.sorin at gmail.com> wrote:
> shadowh511 wrote:
> > Thanks for the GTK theme, Ken.
> > I think that it could use one thing to make it perfect.
> > The color, it needs to be brown.e
> > When I think of Ubuntu, I think of a clean, simple OS.  the color brown
> > represents cleanliness and simplicity, while blue represents sadness and
> > fear.  If we want to have people download hardy, why not give them a
> > nice theme such as union and give them the desktop cube and the wobble
> > windows and all of that eye candy.
> > Hey, its an idea
> >
>
> Hey shadowh511
>
> ;) Blue is not FEAR - Blue is freedom - You can believe a designer. And
> an UI designer.
>
> Blue OR blue + green, well combined will give you a Peace of Mind
> feeling [don't think a second that $MS designers are stupid].
>
> Brown will give you after a while a sensation of sadness.
> Red Derived colors accelerate beat of your heart.
> There is no way to use Porto / Brown themes and to have millions of lovers.
>
> Blue (warm blue) is a healthy color associated with peace.
> Cold blue ( or cold blue + cold green ) generally mean Fresh.
>
> $MS for example combined (in their logo's) all 4 base colors - which
> combined - will obtain the best influence for the eye of mases. Blue,
> Green (Sky and Grass, Peace, Silence, Free Space) and Orange + Brown (
> which are comestibles colors [= colors used in Food's industry for
> advertising especially - because human eye association { bread, burgers,
> etc }])
>
> So Ubuntu want to use comestible colors in general. That's not bad but
> in intention (is working for commercials).
>
> But an OS must use neutral colors for UI - like colored grays (that's
> what Solaris do now with Nimbus theme) - which must have a minimal
> influence to your mind on long term [that's why they use gray + a bit of
> blue in their colored gray]. Any other stories are speculations. Those
> thinks are known.
>
> Human Eye and Hyman Brain - they have some rules which we can not change
>   by our own pleasure even we are Bill Gates or Bil Laden - because this
> is from Nature and this rule will rule until the end.
>
> Those rules are known - and I asking myself why that fact does not count
> here.
>
> Also Clearlooks (Gummy) are a pretty nice theme. What's wrong with
> Clearlooks ? - can be colored at your desire - base colors are customizable.
>
> Also please take a look at the AURORA gtk engine, theme and proposals at:
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Aurora+Unified+Suite+(Preview)?content=70138
> AND
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Aurora+Gtk+Engine?content=56438
> OR take a look to my screenshoot to see Aurora in action on my desktop :
> http://www.leclubyahmala.ro/aurora.html
>
> SO why not ask / invite the author to design for Ubuntu Artwork a theme
> based on Aurora if we desperately need something "of our own". This is a
> nice concept and metaphor and is almost perfect. The author is an
> experienced designer and programmer hhttp://www.nanolx.org/
>
>
> Wait for a response from the community side about Aurora.
>
> Yours,
>
> Nemes Ioan Sorin
>
>
>
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