[ubuntu-uk] Intrepid Themes

[Michael G Fletcher]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Iain Lane <laney at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Dave Murphy wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:28:56 +0100
>> "Chris Rowson" <christopherrowson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what's going on with the look of Intrepid? I did think that
>>> it was supposed to come with a new theme, but from what I've seen so far it
>>> seems to be rather similar to Hardy. At one point there was a bizarre
>>> slightly unreadable dark theme but that seems to have disappeared...
>>
>> Human remains as the default theme, but there is a new theme in
>> Intrepid - DarkRoom (was NewHuman).
>>
>> Although the new theme is very nice, there are some issues[1] with it
>> which is why it's not the default (yet).
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/NewHumanTesting
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Wasn't this the point of it though? To weed out issues with applications
> that don't work well with dark/nonstandard themes?
>
> Iain
>

I rather like the new theme :-) I think with the new graphic designers
in canonical[1] Jaunty will hopefully be very "pretty".


--Michael

[1] - http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/162

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