aesthetics

[jmak]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Dave Morley <davmor2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 10:57 +0300, Jari Rahkonen wrote:
>> jmak kirjoitti:
>> >> If we pick Unity as our default theme the panel color should be:
>> > bg[NORMAL] = "#d6d6d6"
>> > -Add this line to the panel code just above the 'xthickness = 0' line.
>> >
>> > jmak
>> >
>>
>> Hardcoding the color will be a pain for everyone who switches to another
>> theme. The panel specific theming should be added to the Unity gtkrc
>> instead. Of course, that might have been what you meant.
>>
>> - Jari
>>
> Things like this make XFCE feel like a modern OS
> http://bp2.blogger.com/_o9XphA5b4fA/R7h5WGS4b8I/AAAAAAAAAGY/2U7z5zr1oCQ/s400/Screenshot-9.png
>
> I understand that by making Xubuntu feel like Ubuntu that it won't feel
> so foreign to people, but how many user actually mod there desktop?
>
> I think it is about time that Xubuntu grew up.... I think that following
> the Ubuntu ethos is good but sticking to it like glue make the Xubuntu
> desktop feel dated.
>
> KDE4 looks fantastic and it looks completely different from either
> Ubuntu or Kubuntu previously.  However you still know that Kubuntu is a
> related project.  Why can Xubuntu not do something similar?
> --

I agree with you. I am also running dreamlinux, in fact that is the
only distro that I didn't feel the need to change its defaults
setting.
This just shows what I said before; how important the look is. And how
important to understand the target audience preferences.
By the way, AWN developers are working on a standalone launcher that
works without compiz. Maybe, we can already start thinking about
replacing xubuntu's bottom panel in the upcoming releases with AWN
launcher. I already mentioned many releases ago that xubuntu needs a
personality, a character rather than slavishly copying gnome layout.
This is all the more important, because with the fantastic release of
kde 4, there is a chance that gnome will fade into the twilight zone.
Even Mark Suttleworth indicated, it is possible that in the future kde
will be the main ubuntu desktop rather than gnome.

jmak