[ubuntu-art] Suggestions about artwork and choice.

[Vincent René-Corail]

Hi everybody,

I had posted this message in Launchpad as I didn't know when to do it.
It is not easy for me to find everything I want in Launchpad as I am french.
So I just paste my message here for you to read it.
Thank you all for your great work.

Hi everybody,

I hope this is the right place to make suggestions about artwork and polish, 
as is it not about bugs.

First of all, I would like to say that it is a very good thing that you take 
care of users feelings about new themes you create/propose.
About that, I know that many people told you that the new theme in Dapper 
was too orange and maybe ugly. But you must keep in mind that this is not 
everybody's feeling about that.

Personnaly, I didn't just like the new human theme (brown windows, orange 
when flying upon buttons and menus and orange folders), I LOVED IT SO MUCH ! 
It was a very good idea.It was very different than what we are used to see. 
And I find the one you replaced it with is ugly (orange folders with blue 
menus are really not good together).

Of course, you cannot satisfy everybody's tastes/feelings about artwork !
That is the reason why I'd like to tell you that you should let users have 
the choice.
For example, you could create a second human theme called "human orange" (or 
in theme's details for menus and buttons). Even if you keep something 
different for the default artwork on Ubuntu, you should, at least, keep the 
idea you had as a possible choice for the user. Why not ? This would satisfy 
everybody.

The second thing is about OOo's icons. Openoffice's 2.0.2 package (the one 
that is distributed by Sun and contributors) let us choose the icon theme 
whatever desktop we are using (even if it uses the correct icon theme for 
the correct desktop by default).
Once again, even if it is a good thing that you focus on gnome's 
integration, you should let the user have the choice (crystal icon theme), 
as everybody is not obliged to like it like that.

Thank you.

Vincent

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