[ubuntu-art] Hardy GTK Theme

[Matthew Nicholson]

On Nov 3, 2007, at 12:22 PM, SzerencseFia wrote:

> Lets say you start to use your newly downloaded/burned Ubuntu Hardy  
> and
> the system is clean, nothing on it only entirely default. This is the
> most common place to start with the new releases, is it?
>
> Take it into account that most people are not designer and they have  
> to
> be treated as such whom are not an expert in theming. Our coordination
> should lead us in that direction where simple user is the target,  
> their
> level of knowledge, understanding to make theme changes on the system.
> Their limitation is the understanding, what do they understand and  
> able
> to do with their Linux system.
>
> Why I say this? I do think our motto has to be SIMPLICITY and we  
> have to
> present to the users the freedom of choice as the main direction in  
> Open
> Source world.
>
> Therefore: we should present one dark and one light theme from the  
> same
> type but with different color. In fact it leaves one question open  
> which
> one would be default in the release. Kenneth, do we have possibility  
> to
> survey few hundreds of simple users?
>
Idea/Suggestion: In past releases, when there was a decent amount of  
art changes, they only showed up to the end user (ie, people running  
the RC's/beta/tribes/herds/whatever Hardy will be) near the final  
release (last beta etc). I would suggest that maybe a few possible  
default/included themes be included as early as possible in the alpha/ 
beta releases (along with an old stand by maybe), and to make it a  
point to get the word out suggestions/feed back/bugs are welcome and  
needed on the new art work. That way there would be amble time to try  
to make the best theme that appeals to the most users. Obviously  
anyone can change it later (I like the idea of have a couple variants  
of the default theme), but this way the few hundred users could be a  
few thousand or more. (We could even go with the old "This is not the  
final art! Feedback welcome" text on the background etc.

Matt

> Cheers, Erno [Szerencsefia]
>
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