Humanity without humans (default Artwork)

[Mduduzi Katide]

I think it's a shame that Mark Shuttleworth's original idea of "spirit
of humanity" for Ubuntu's artwork seems to have been dropped.

Is true that having images of people in a multi-cultural product is
totally unacceptable from a interface design perspective, as several
cultures forbid this representations. But I doubt that reverting to a
totally abstract theme is the only possible solution for this. I'd
like to propose an idea for a theme that explicitly portrays the idea
of strong human imagery, while keeping free of direct human
representations.

The idea is to use indirect signs of human activities. This can be
done by showing traces of humans, like footsteps.
Creative thinking, and it's a good thing that themes can be changed. For
some of us, such images are too 'forsaken' and become quite depressing.
The idea that there _was_ a human there but is no longer will gradually
work on the user's psych till the begin to feel quite lonely. I think
the idea of humanity without humanity is too sad to behold for hours and
days on end.

MMK.
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