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New GNOME2 default theme proposal

Submitted by erikg on Fri, 2003-06-06 15:05. Gnome Art

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 AnonymousA on Sat, 2003-06-07 02:38.

I agree with you on some of your points. Most gnome 2.x themes *do* seem very professional to me. They are very easy to read and don't shock the eyes. I think that an ideal default would be "Mist" or "Etria.org-blue," both based on the Mist enigine. These themes, with the Esco metacity theme, look very pleasing on the eyes, and are also very professional.

As for "eye candy" themes, why doesn't someone start porting the enlightenmentish gtk1 pixmap themes? I haven't seen any ports all, not even of absolute e... there really needs to be more pixmap themes that actually use textures, not just a million mac clones, there are already too many of those.

I agree with you about kde's themes, none of them look professional to me.

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