Feisty's Wobbly Bits and the Albinofication of Ubuntu
Chanchao
custom at freenet.de
Mon Mar 12 08:22:14 UTC 2007
It happened again!! Did anyone else notice that Ubuntu is getting
'pinker' with every release? The Warty/Hoary release was a nice gritty
dark brown, Breezy was caramellish, then at Dapper it got lighter still
and now with the proposed Feisty it is clear: Ubuntu is turning
Albino!
While pondering about how Ubuntu contracted whatever it is that Michael
Jackson has, I stared at the desktop graphic and got this deja-vu-ish
feeling but couldn't quite put my finger on it. Where had I seen that
before?
And then I knew! And had a glorious flashback to the time when mobile
phones first came with cameras, a.k.a. 'my picture-under-girl's-skirts
days'!!
Pictures that clearly demonstrate where the Feisty inspiration came from
are here:
Feisty: http://shw.fotopages.com/14098456.html
Inspiration: http://shw.fotopages.com/14098457.html
Just blur & desaturate it a bit and there you are. :)
Then the other MAIN and EXCITING new feature is that windows wobble. And
Ubuntu now has a 'rain drops' effect on the desktop. I played around
with this for a while, showed my wife who was equally enchanted, but
then wondered: "* WHY * actually?" I couldn't quite answer that
without it being a rant on 'the correction of Bug #1, (Windows
dominance) and in order to solve that situation, Ubuntu apparently has
to become just as big an attention-whore as OSX and Vista have become.
So fair enough, really. :)
I'm loving it!!!
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