Default Theme

[Ville Vainio]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 21:08 +0200, h.engemann at basicartstudios.de wrote:

> mmh,
> i dont understand all the critics,
> its nice styled, a bit innovative,
> gives the touch of humanity all the way.

> If someone dont want his boss to see it, than change it.
> Its 3 clicks away.

Boss, girlfriend, relatives...

It just makes sense to have a default theme that is not going to be
switched off by most users (may god help the poor people that don't know
how to do that).

BTW, how do you switch the splash screen? I could easily switch the
login screen, but didn't find the control for the splash screen. I don't
want to change the whole theme. It's going to be 3 clicks for
experienced Gnome users, the rest of us are bouncing around nervously,
trying to switch everything before anyone sees the new... "sensual"
theme.

> I know it can be hart for some radical moralistic people ,

I'm sure the theme is going to disturb a teen that plays in
"massmurder666" quake clan, probably every bit as much as your average
christian moralist. To a certain extent it makes sense to shock, but
that should be done e.g. in the Ubuntu web site, not in the distro that
is with you every day.

> hasnt  humanity the goal to break this chains for a better world?

This is irrelevant in the context of this discussion. Ubuntu should
"just work", any additional message that is convoyed should IMHO be
introduced in a more subtle manner. Having to change the theme to make
the theme tolerable is an additional, nontrivial configuration step.

As far as furthering the concept of "humanity" goes, I would be more
partial to planetary themes... like planet earth bathing in
sunlight :-). It's a more "spiritual" and stylistically abstract
approach than naked young people.