[ubuntu-art] Confirmation that Canonical is making a new default theme

[Danny Piccirillo]

Sorry if this is slightly off topic but I read a while ago that Metacity was
adding composite features like transparency, etc. When will this be
available? Does this mean that at some point we may be able to get all the
features of compiz with metacity and be able to ditch compiz fusion? This
would open up a lot more possibilities for themes, wouldn't it?

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:26 AM, SzerencseFia <szerencsefia at gmail.com>wrote:

> Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:41 PM, AA Boy <smartboyathome at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hello, there seems to be some discussion over at the forums about there
> not
> >> being a default theme, and the references used are the Kyudo Guidelines
> >> Mindset page and that the art deadline that just passed today. So,
> Canonical
> >> is making a theme and releasing it with the Beta?
> >
> > Since this is the first release post-LTS the plan according to our
> > discussion early in the release cycle was to do something
> > revolutionary that would probably require more than one release cycle
> > to accomplish. During the alpha stages there has been a dramatically
> > different theme for the default in order to flush out bugs related to
> > dark themes.
> >
> > I am not privy to the final decision by Mark (if a final decision has
> > been made for Intrepid) but according to the plan from months ago,
> > around now the default would revert to the same for hardy until Jaunty
> > devel starts up again - actually, probably post UDS.
> >
> > Don't be surprised if the theme for Intrepid looks a lot like hardy,
> > big changes are hard to accomplish in the few months alloted for one
> > release. However, rest assured that we have had a *very* active and
> > productive development cycle here on the art-team and there are
> > several great themes in progress.
> >
>
> I can confirm this just like Matt. IMHO the dark theme development is not
> prior to general
> development of Gnome themes today. Additional there are tons of crap themes
> out there based on
> somewhat incomplete or massed up code. In theming dark color base gtkrc it
> make is so difficult to
> find a good and workable combination. So, it gets the focus down on Ubuntu
> Art Team as we are to
> make an easy choice for Canonical.
>
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