[ubuntu-art] New Theme

[Chris5976]

Steph <orkerone <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Hi everybody, first thing I'll ask is to forgive my English, I'm French.It 
has been said on the french forum that Ubuntu was actually very ugly. Go to 
your friends's houses, boot on the Live CD and you'll see most of them 
saying "creepy ! I'll keep Vista !". And we have to admit that the only good 
thing in Vista is the Aero interface. No need to talk about OSX, it has always 
been quite beautiful, and no wonder why the most downloaded themes on 
> Gnome-Look.org are some OSX look-alike ones.Now check Ubuntu's default 
themes. Human and Glossy are correct, other ones are really old and ugly. On 
the seven themes integrated, two looks correct, but still old, and the other 
ones are just as beautiful as Win95. Why can't we add a few modern themes ? 
Just one or two, that could replace the Crux or Glider themes (have a look).
> See, Ubuntu aims to be a distro for everyone. Mr Everyone is not stupid, but 
still he's often a n00b :D . So the thing he's gonna look first is design. How 
to convince Mr Everyone Ubuntu's a great OS ? By showing him a nice design, 
something that looks clear, simple and efficace. Then everything will "Just 
Work" and all this on a nice theme :).
> Now, the solutions. If everyone agrees of course. I've talked a little with 
Brian Ward (author of this nice orb : 
http://www.brianward.us/myspace/public/ubuntu-orb.png
>  :) and agreeing to what I just said, we told that creating a totally new 
theme would be some really hard work, and with the tons of themes available on 
Gnome-look.org, would be time wasted. So what we thought was to make a 
selection of the best themes on 
> Gnome-look.org (Aero and OSX-like excluded of course), then try to mix 
everything in a new, fresh, modern themes.Who wanna join ? :)
> 
> <div><p>Hi everybody, first thing I'll ask is to forgive my English, I'm 
French.<br><br>It has been said on the french forum that Ubuntu was actually 
very ugly. Go to your friends's houses, boot on the Live CD and you'll see most 
of them saying "creepy ! I'll keep Vista !". And we have to admit that the only 
good thing in Vista is the Aero interface. No need to talk about OSX, it has 
always been quite beautiful, and no wonder why the most downloaded themes on 
> Gnome-Look.org are some OSX look-alike ones.<br><br>Now check Ubuntu's 
default themes. Human and Glossy are correct, other ones are really old and 
ugly. On the seven themes integrated, two looks correct, but still old, and the 
other ones are just as beautiful as Win95. Why can't we add a few modern 
themes ? Just one or two, that could replace the Crux or Glider themes (have a 
look).
> <br><br>See, Ubuntu aims to be a distro for everyone. Mr Everyone is not 
stupid, but still he's often a n00b :D . So the thing he's gonna look first is 
design. How to convince Mr Everyone Ubuntu's a great OS ? By showing him a nice 
design, something that looks clear, simple and efficace. Then everything 
will "Just Work" and all this on a nice theme :).
> <br><br>Now, the solutions. If everyone agrees of course. I've talked a 
little with Brian Ward (author of this nice orb : <a 
href="http://www.brianward.us/myspace/public/ubuntu-
orb.png">http://www.brianward.us/myspace/public/ubuntu-orb.png
> </a> :) and agreeing to what I just said, we told that creating a totally new 
theme would be some really hard work, and with the tons of themes available on 
<a href="http://Gnome-look.org">Gnome-look.org</a>, would be time wasted. So 
what we thought was to make a selection of the best themes on 
> <a href="http://Gnome-look.org">Gnome-look.org</a> (Aero and OSX-like 
excluded of course), then try to mix everything in a new, fresh, modern 
themes.<br><br>Who wanna join ? :)<br></p></div>
> 




Hello Steph,

It would be a pleasure for me to work with you and propose a new good looking 
theme for Ubuntu. But i know how to make it (the design) but i dont know how to 
make it compatible for ubuntu...may be it exist a TDK...(Theme Developpement 
Kit).

I am also french so it will be simple to communicate, i work with photoshop, 
artrage and blender.

Regards

Chris