more beauty, colour, recognisable icons

[Martin Alderson]

The Firefox icon is not the fault of Ubuntu. It's the fault of Mozilla
Foundation only allowing official builds to have that icon, legally at
least. Which sucks, in my opinion at least.

However, there is not really a whole lot we can do about it, apart
from downloading the official Firefox off mozilla.org and untarring it
at install time. Nasty solution, however.

I'm sure many people don't see this as an issue. Well frankly, it is.
It means that Windows users won't feel at home and it will feel very
alien to them even though the actual browser is 100% the same.

Any other suggestions on how we could get aronud this? Maybe emailing
the mozilla foundation would work, getting them to approve the Firefox
builds done by Ubuntu?

Martin


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:34:22 +0200, Philippe Landau <lists at mailry.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
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