Hey guys, I had been on the art team for a number of years. I am really surprised that some of the artwork, ie,,,boot splash and splash screen with progress bar , were able to be considered let alone actually used. I have to tell you that that the choices for these images and colours are completely not ubuntu in any way and certainly the worst choice. When booting into karmic, the white ubuntu symbol should have had the colours gradually fill it in as a progress bar...and the following boot splash the ubuntu logo certainly should have had color and the background for that image most definitely should NOT have been used...it implies a dark..albeit muddy,, theme is going to be default system theme. I have seen none of the major distributions have any inconsistencies...including ubuntu...with graphics during install..or boot..as radical and inappropriate as karmic has. Who ever has made these decisions is most likely a developer and there are NO developers capable of making final choices for anything without discussing the options with at least one "qualified" artist. Creating and deciding on graphics , especially for a distribution as globally used as Ubuntu, takes as much skill and time and mental capabilities as it does to code "any" application...or DE..and any of the developers who think otherwise should be kept as far away from decision making about graphics permanently!!! To mr shuttleworth,,, if you are making final decisions then you need to pull yourself away from graphics altogether and let the art team back in as official...if on the other hand you are relying on an "artist" at cononical to make these final decisions ,, then please give them their walking papers. coz