The theme issue: in search of a solution

Ville Vainio vivainio at kolumbus.fi
Fri Oct 15 14:55:04 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 14:41 +0100, Ben Edwards (lists) wrote:

> > You can disable the splash screen. Go to the Computer meny-> Desktop
> > preferences -> Sessions -> Uncheck "Show splash screen on login".
> > 
> > - Petri
> 
> The issue is what the default theme is.  The idea is that you can give
> someone a Cd and they can easily install it themselves.  First
> impressions are very important and the current images will put a lot of
> people off.

Indeed. Whatever happened to the Gnome philosophy of "sane defaults"?

It would suck to abstain from recommending the distro to anyone, or at
least having to give an "early warning" and describe that besides the
theme, it's a good distro, and that changing the theme is easy (though
you'll have to read the FAQ to change the splash screen).

The theme doesn't need toning down - it just shouldn't have realistic
photos of people. It might take some swallowing of pride on Canonical's
part to revert to the old theme, but it just needs to be done; not doing
it would be analogous to spending billions to design a cutting edge
sports car, then painting "I LOVE BRITTNYE SPEARS" (sic) on the side in
loud letters.

Ubuntu is revving up for a great start - don't screw it all up now.





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