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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 Steve on Sat, 2003-06-07 04:45.

One thing that always attracted me to GNOME was its appearence; whereas KDE has all the bells and whisles (of dubious quality), GNOME has concentrated on simplicity and clarity. I -personally- think this is one of its greatest qualities.

The default theme is however -I admit- quite lacking. Look at the default button shapes, huge, angled rectangles; they would benefit greatly from even just a small bevel on the corners. Also, people may dislike LUNA, but everyone's got to admit, the coloring of cream beats grey anyday.

Most professional GNOME themes, however, such as Redhat's or Ximian's, address these issues so it might not be that big a problem in the future. Better concentrating on functionality than appearence just now, its all ready good enough.

Steve

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