[ubuntu-art] WAS Matte for the next release?

[Johannes]

why not use these wonderfull icon set
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Gnome%2BHumanElephant+Savane%2BMarine?content=67388
i think they fit perfectly with both a bright and dark theme.

johannes

On Nov 23, 2007 11:43 AM, Álvaro Medina Ballester
<xlasttrainhomex at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/11/23, Günther Beyer <contact at guentherbeyer.de>:
>
> > I'm going with James. The use of brown colours hat always been a little
> > shy in Ubuntu, but you can do so much more. Think about the combination
> > of brown nuances and white - very smooth and eyepleasing. Brown and
> > black - very strong. Brown with green and blue - fresh, modern. Brown
> > with red and orange - eyeblasting.
>
> Agree. Just look any of lyrae's themes.
>
>
> http://www.gnome-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=lyrae&action=contents
>
> He/she uses browns and makes the greatests themes I've ever seen in Linux.
>
> > Some thoughts on icons. Most people are bored by the glossy look of the
> > Human Theme. But like someone pointed out, it would be a problem, if a
> > new icontheme would not work with Tango anymore - Suse, Fedora, ...
> >
> > Maybe it would be way better, to rework a huge part of the actual
> > icontheme, making them a little more realistic, making them somehow
> > cleaner than they actually are. Hylkes Discovery icons are a good start
> > or maybe could fuse with the new ones. What about this one:
> >
> > http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Simple+Human
> > +folders?content=41750
>
> What do you think about starting at this point?
>
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Dropline+NOU%21?content=53292
>
> I think that combines Ubuntu look with more realistic & less glossy icons.
>
>
>
> > I've got the feeling, that souch a small change is exactly the right
> > thing for a new Ubuntu Desktop. A simple gradient instead of the glossy
> > feel.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Am Donnerstag, den 22.11.2007, 16:59 -0800 schrieb Troy James Sobotka:
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> > > Jan Niklas Hasse wrote:
> > > > IMHO brown is one of the ugliest colours. I'm sorry but it reminds me
> of
> > > > several bad things. Please don't decide to make a brown theme, orange
> is
> > > > ways better.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm sorry to bother the list responding to this, but I feel
> > > that I must.
> > >
> > > This is the absolute most rubbish opinion ever offered up.
> > >
> > > It is a poorly researched, poorly understood, and knee jerk
> > > reaction.  Your understanding is not only misguided, it is
> > > riddled with flaws that anyone with any ounce of design sense
> > > would understand.
> > >
> > >
> > > Ubuntu's brown is pitiful _only_ because of poor execution.  Arguably,
> > > brown is having a bit of a second life in many other areas of design.
> > >
> > > Notably, as has been said a 100000 times before:
> > >
> > > 1) Ubuntu's use of brown is monochromatic and extremely underwhelming.
> > > A compliment or split compliment would fix this along with the
> > > permission to use contrast from lights to darks.  Brown could easily
> > > remain the base if fleshed out with some supporting cast members.
> > >
> > > 2) Brown has been used many times by many different designers
> > > extremely effectively.  Of notable worth you may wish to research
> > > some contemporary designs utilizing crests, grunge, etc.  Common
> > > pairings are brown with the compliment blue.  Starbucks recently
> > > launched a new campaign using brown as a base with white and a
> > > petal blue.  And yes, many design awards have been won with brown
> > > as a base.
> > >
> > > 3) "Orange is always better".  Superlatives are an immediate sign
> > > that the statement is probably riddled with flaws.  Make no mistake,
> > > monochromatic orange is no better than monochromatic brown.  For further
> > > reflection on this, compare the weak Fedora 8 work to the extremely
> > > strong Fedora 7 work.  The horribly monotonous work in SUSE is also
> > > a byproduct of monotony.
> > >
> > > There is a line between consistency and monotony, and no matter what
> > > colour or psycho-semantic-tripey rubbish that someone is trying to
> > > peddle about color psychology, in the end, it is the monochromatic
> > > lack of contrast that is killing Ubuntu's use of brown.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > TJS
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