<br><br><b><i>Mark Shuttleworth <mark@canonical.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"><title></title> bvc wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20060429061425.53015.qmail@web38708.mail.mud.yahoo.com" type="cite">How did we go from three to TWO?<br> </blockquote> I'm talking about external themes (things that exist in the Gnome world, like Gorilla and Mist etc which are high quality but not part of the Ubuntu project). At the moment we have a couple of themes in there as options by default, but I think you guys could pick much better ones than the current list:<br> <br> - Clearlooks (this should stay, it's great)<br> - Crux<br> - Glider<br> - Grand Canyon<br> - Mist<br> - Ocean Dream<br> - Simple<br> - Smokey Blue<br> - Traditional<br> <br> Other
than clearlooks, consider them all optional and figure out between you which TWO we should ship along with Human. Then we can have THREE community-contributed ones. If we can't actually get three community-contributed ubuntu ones, then pick THREE from Gnome-look.<br> <br> <blockquote cite="mid20060429061425.53015.qmail@web38708.mail.mud.yahoo.com" type="cite">and<br> How can we vote when there's only one commited theme (SandSkater)?<br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/AdditionalThemes?highlight=%28theme%29">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/AdditionalThemes?highlight=%28theme%29</a><br> ...and it isn't even close to being default quality IMO. Is the mist engine installed by default? I've had this install since warty-beta so I do not know.<br> </blockquote> Ah, well, if we can't get more from u-art then we should just make sure we pick and ship the best of what is already out there. Can you guys organise that?<br> <br> Mark<br> <br> </blockquote>Thank you
for clearing that up!.<br><br>The only one I think could be worthy of remaining in the list above is Glider (with a 1px trough border instead of 2px) but I think SmoothGnome is better (also with a 1px trough border instead of 2px).<br><br>Other than that it is hard for me to make any suggestions because of my bias in gnome themes. Since no one else will make any suggestions, I will go ahead and be bias and suggest something of mine from the smooth-engine.<br><br>Smooth Blended<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=35841">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=35841</a><br>screenshot<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/35841-1.png">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/35841-1.png</a><br>these look good with the BlendedSmallSquare metacity theme, as seen in the screenshots above<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=35277">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=35277</a><br><a
href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/35277-1.jpg">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/35277-1.jpg</a><br><br>Smooth-Pastel (it also comes in flat)<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=35727">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=35727</a><br>screenshots<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/35727-1.jpg">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/35727-1.jpg</a><br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre2/35727-2.jpg">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre2/35727-2.jpg</a><br><br>Something from Smooth9 (which also has a metacity theme)<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=34670">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=34670</a><br>screenshots<a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/34670-1.png"><br>http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/34670-1.png</a><br><a
href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre2/34670-2.png">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre2/34670-2.png</a><br><br>I also have some simple, color mods of the Simple theme to ditch the blue and the white menuitem. They use the thinice engine, which is very light and fast.<br><br>Some of the current themes are pixmap so if that is an option there's the current popular Candido<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=35812">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=35812</a><br>screenshot<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre2/35812-2.jpg">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre2/35812-2.jpg</a><br>which I personally can't use because of the lack of contrast but people seem to like it a lot.<br><br>Gentle was suggested on the wiki's additional themes but I'd need to do some touchup on it, which is no problem at all.<br><a
href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=35516">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=35516</a><br>screenshot<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre2/35516-2.png">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre2/35516-2.png</a><br><br>Other pixmap themes could be(though I have never used them except to check them out);<br>VistaBut<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=32227">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=32227</a><br>screenshot<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/32227-1.jpg">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/32227-1.jpg</a><br><br>PlatinUm<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=33112">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=33112</a><br>screenshot<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/33112-1.png">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/33112-1.png</a><br><br>For metacity themes I'll again be bias and suggest;<br>Unity<br><a
href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=32167">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=32167</a><br>screenshots<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/32167-1.png">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/32167-1.png</a><br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre2/32167-2.png">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre2/32167-2.png</a><br><br>SystemGXF<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=32169">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=32169</a><br>screenshot<br><a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/32169-1.png">http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/32169-1.png</a><br><br>I won't make any excuses for my bias since no one else has commented and since I have spent a lot of time trying to ensure that everything works as it should in my themes, which is usually not the case.<br><p>
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