To Canonical: what’s so wrong with the design thing ?
Several people around the net are increasingly disappointed by the UI redesign (originally meant for Hardy if I recall correctly) getting postponed from cycle to cycle, from year to year. [I apologize on lack of time to cite sources here]
Don’t be so insistent about it. Really. It’s not that other distributions redesign that much, beside maybe a new wallpaper every so often.
If you can’t get a design team together or can’t get it to work in time for a release, it’s not that problem.
Next year, we swear !
Just stop promising it, it’s okay. Until you can – at least – show a handful of credible mockups.
Share it !
Are you serious? I completely agree with you. Just stop promising or do it!
Maybe they’re waiting for GNOME 3.0…
Yeah, I’m serious !
Linux Mint is based Ubuntu technology, brings preinstalled multimedia codecs and a more appealing default theme – the latest RC looks quite nice:
http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=796
Might be an alternative for people like me who do not like the brown default Ubuntu theme..
amd-linux, I’m using linux mint on my eeepc and graphically it’s really much better. Apart from this, I like to change everything by myself, so after a week my desktop looks completely different from the default one… so IMHO it’s not such a big problem.
The serious need to get rid of that eyesore coffee theme. It literally hurts my eyes. But then, so do most gnome themes. There’s just something about the way they’re drawn.
They’ve been promising a new theme since Feisty, actually. They have yet to deliver. Still stuck with ugly abstract wallpapers and god-awful poop brown and horribly orange color schemes.
Human, as a GTK theme, never impressed me. Of course, since switching to KDE I’ve found things like QtCurve that makes most themes in GTK look like crap.