more beauty, colour, recognisable icons

[Philippe Landau]

for my current taste a large part of
the ubuntu themes appear washed out, grayish, clumsy, dark.

a way to have the fiery fox in firefox's icon:
download it from
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=139696
in a root terminal do:
cd /usr/share/pixmaps
cp /home/.../mozilla-firefox.png .

i did not find out where thunderbird gets the
dull blue-globe-envelope icon from in the ubuntu menu bar,
would like to have the thunder-bird from mozilla there too.

it would be nice to be able to get the firefox buttons
into nautilus, or another way to have happier colours there.

i know many need neutral greyish colours
so they can concentrate on their work,
but for others the vibrant colours of african textiles,
the uplifting purity of african skys,
savannah springs delights and golden artwork
with sun-sparkling age-old crystal and pearl inlays
could integrate well into the desktop of the future,
making the rich tradition of the ubuntu earth blossom :-)

especially if ubuntu can be made to hide more often:
like auto hiding option for the bars on top and bottom,
and the option to have them in darker colours or
auto adapt to the colour and brightness of the screen.

kind regards     philippe