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I don't understand why they don't make the default Ubuntu theme a bit nicer. It seems that they would merely have to hire a single designer to improve this mate

I don't understand why they don't make the default Ubuntu theme a bit nicer. It seems that they would merely have to hire a single designer to improve this materially.

beermonster 4y ago
What is it you think could be improved ?
- symlinkk 4y ago
  The purple / orange theme is gross looking and clashes with neutral colors from third parties. It just looks extremely unprofessional. They should just ship vanilla GNOME, it’s beautiful.
  - sbuk 4y ago
    Beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder.
    - osigurdson 4y ago
      A good read on this theme is Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
- osigurdson 4y ago
  I'm not a designer so it is difficult to point out exactly how it should be improved. My reaction to it however is it has a very amateur look in my opinion. I've typically installed Gnome extensions to make it look better (though I think the one I've been using is probably going a little too far for most users).
echelon 4y ago
I would pay for this. If they could get rid of the slow LibreOffice garbage and make the audio / video system more stable, I'd pay a monthly fee. I would pay for Firefox too.
micromacrofoot 4y ago
what’s not nice about it specifically
mhh__ 4y ago
I actually think it looks really good, certainly by Linux standards at least
- lproven 4y ago
  Agreed. I find GNOME to be unusable junk from the functionality POV. (I'll probably get challenged on this, so here's a shopping list: • Give me back a componentised desktop, the O.M. in G.N.O.M.E. • If I must have a top panel, make it useful. I want menus in there, and as many status icons as I wish, which is lots. • I want 100% keyboard control. I want to unplug my mouse and have it totally usable, everything, no exceptions. • And while we are at that, I want total 100% screen reader compatibility for my blind friends. That means TEXT. I want text menus, not hidden, right there. I want clear descriptions, everywhere, not jargon BS like "Activities". • I want it accessible for me and everyone.) ... but GNOME looks beautiful. Ubuntu just makes it better. KDE is functional, not very but just barely enough, but it's fugly. But this is cosmetic stuff. That's always been a critical weakness of Linux, sadly. So I ignore it, and on everything except Ubuntu, I use Xfce. Doesn't look pretty, but it works, and works well.
  - pacifika 4y ago
    So raspbian
    - lproven 4y ago
      I've only tried Raspbian on PC. It's just tweaked LXDE. Not bad; bit basic. Not as flexible as Xfce. In general a poor copy of Windows 95, like virtually all Linux desktops. As I wrote here: https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/linux_desktop_feature/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/linux_desktop_feature...

I don't understand why they don't make the default Ubuntu theme a bit nicer. It seems that they would merely have to hire a single designer to improve this materially.

beermonster 4y ago

What is it you think could be improved ?

symlinkk 4y ago
The purple / orange theme is gross looking and clashes with neutral colors from third parties. It just looks extremely unprofessional. They should just ship vanilla GNOME, it’s beautiful.
- sbuk 4y ago
  Beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder.
  - osigurdson 4y ago
    A good read on this theme is Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
osigurdson 4y ago
I'm not a designer so it is difficult to point out exactly how it should be improved. My reaction to it however is it has a very amateur look in my opinion. I've typically installed Gnome extensions to make it look better (though I think the one I've been using is probably going a little too far for most users).

echelon 4y ago

I would pay for this. If they could get rid of the slow LibreOffice garbage and make the audio / video system more stable, I'd pay a monthly fee. I would pay for Firefox too.

micromacrofoot 4y ago

what’s not nice about it specifically

mhh__ 4y ago

I actually think it looks really good, certainly by Linux standards at least

lproven 4y ago
Agreed. I find GNOME to be unusable junk from the functionality POV. (I'll probably get challenged on this, so here's a shopping list: • Give me back a componentised desktop, the O.M. in G.N.O.M.E. • If I must have a top panel, make it useful. I want menus in there, and as many status icons as I wish, which is lots. • I want 100% keyboard control. I want to unplug my mouse and have it totally usable, everything, no exceptions. • And while we are at that, I want total 100% screen reader compatibility for my blind friends. That means TEXT. I want text menus, not hidden, right there. I want clear descriptions, everywhere, not jargon BS like "Activities". • I want it accessible for me and everyone.) ... but GNOME looks beautiful. Ubuntu just makes it better. KDE is functional, not very but just barely enough, but it's fugly. But this is cosmetic stuff. That's always been a critical weakness of Linux, sadly. So I ignore it, and on everything except Ubuntu, I use Xfce. Doesn't look pretty, but it works, and works well.
- pacifika 4y ago
  So raspbian
  - lproven 4y ago
    I've only tried Raspbian on PC. It's just tweaked LXDE. Not bad; bit basic. Not as flexible as Xfce. In general a poor copy of Windows 95, like virtually all Linux desktops. As I wrote here: https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/linux_desktop_feature/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/linux_desktop_feature...