[Bug 29002] Ubuntu artwork /visual environment doesn't match simplicity goals

[AppleCrow]

Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29002

Affects: ubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
Simplicity depends on recognition by user of the file's contents.

User must be able to recognize immediatly what kind of file he/she wishs
to open whenever he/she uses a different kind of desktop.

In this way, and because technology has evolved in the same time:
-xpm format must be deprecated from projets, and replaced by png
-svg fomat must be deployed

In the way of 'standardisation', simplicity and usability, Tango Icons
Project seems to be the partner to match Ubuntu's goals.

Major problem of most of the actual OS is the multiplicityof mimetype icons, but it's not t simplify user's life:
-Any sound file must be designed by the same icon
-Any video file must be designed by the same icon
-...

Simplicity and usability are also synonyms of instantaneous recognition
by the user.

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By the way: brown is a warm color. But an abusive use of this one makes
the environment sad. It would be interesting to make attempts at
interface's colour tests with hotter (yellow, red, orange) and colder
(green, purple) colors.

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Wallpapers and splash screens don't reflect the general policy and objectives of Ubuntu.
- Splash screens form Warty and Hoary were more representative of them.
- Wallpapers included with Ubuntu releases don't match Ubuntu environment > I think they can be safetly removed from package, in the way users customize their environment by pictures which fill their character.

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General Conclusion:

Ubuntu includes an unquestionable number of stuffs making it possible to personalize the office.  However these packages are not necessary in the absolute, since any user personalizes his office according to his desires, and not of what one proposes to him.
Disk space can be gained by proposing only personalization tools (in a favoured context), and a default desktop theme as base(without wallpaper).