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[John Richard Moser]

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The simpler solution:  Orange and brown are simply ugly as hell.  Soft
blues and greens seem to be generally better.

I'm curious, is anyone really creaming in their seat to the orange/brown
hues Ubuntu has always flagshipped with; or is it really true that
bluish and greenish hues are almost universally easier on the eyes?
There is a blue-green color blindness issue with this but.. well, if
everyone pretty much universally finds a new background and theme after
install, maybe Ubuntu should find a new default theme.  (Radical
marketing change)

For the record I use Nuvola; a few of my friends prefer clearlooks.  I'd
like clearlooks more if the title bar was a bit brighter personally but
that would likely raise a contrast issue for colorblind people.

Paul Sladen wrote:
> This got some +1's on IRC, so I'll send here to preserve it.
> 
> <sladen> jdub: the hue has moved from ~25° to ~19°
>          (the brown->orange slant), the saturation was gone from ~55% to 
>          ~70% which is the less appealing change as this reduces
>          the contrast between the background and 'white' (effectively
>          making the background gradients into foreground colours)
> <sladen> jdub: if you reduce the saturation back to what it
>          was, there's a probability that the changes should become more
>          useable and less distracting
> 
> Doing some checking in The GIMP, taking the luminance down -14% and the
> saturation down -33% keeps the new 'orange' hue but places the window-border
> gradients back in the background:
> 
>   http://www.paul.sladen.org/ubuntu/bugs/ubuntulooks7-saturation.png
> 
> This shows the current and saturation-reduced states against a neutral
> background.
> 
> 	-Paul

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