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New GNOME2 default theme proposal

Submitted by erikg on Fri, 2003-06-06 15:05. Gnome Art
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Eugenia over at OSnews has published a proposal for a new default theme for GNOME2. This is a follow-up to a recent article
about GNOME2 where she says: "Gnome's default widget look is a very boring one, and maybe one of its weak points [...] most users stay with the defaults, so these should be attractive and make sense". I must say the proposed theme looks very, very nice, and I would really want to see this as the default GNOME theme.

Re: New GNOME2 default theme proposal

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2003-06-07 01:48.

What people don't seem to realise, is that the default theme SHOULD BE BORING. The theme Eugenia created is preety, but it is too preety - you don't want the theme to be so colorfull it draws notice to itself. A good theme is one that matches your UI needs, and that you can FORGET until someone asks you what theme you are using.

I think this is the reason why Windows had a gray theme for so long.

In my previous job, everybody would play with the themes on their first day. By their first month, people ususally shifted back to the gray theme for good.

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