Default Theme

[Benjamin Roe]

> Well, it was developed by the project leadership, headed by the 
> project's founder. You are assuming that they don't understand Ubuntu's 
> user base, but that has yet be be seen. We all agree that the team has 
> done an amazing job with the distro so far (technically and generally), 
> so I think it's a fair bet that they know their marketing stuff too. We 
> are certainly not the bulk of the future user base, we are merely early 
> adopters.

But, from the responses on the list, it appears that the intended future
user base doesn't include anyone in business, academia and many
non-western countries. That's a fairly large chunk of potential users
they're missing out on. The point is, the default settings should be as
non-offensive as possible - provide alternatives, sure, but try not to
piss off your users before they even log in.

For those wanting to change, gTweakui is a good tool to fiddle with
gconf settings without having to use gconf-editor, by the way
(http://http://gtweakui.sourceforge.net/).

Ben