Ubuntu to Introduce New, Less Brown Default Theme
Ubuntu to Introduce New, Less Brown Default Theme
Posted 03/03/2010 at 4:03pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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The Linux faithful should see quite a change when they download the next major release of the popular Ubuntu distro. Version 10.04 is expected to come with a heavily revamped default theme. Yes, gone are the days of the brown default theme that has graced Ubuntu installs since its introduction in 2004.
Canonical has evolved the look ever so slightly as the OS has gone through revisions. The look has been getting decidedly brighter as time goes on with oranges creeping into the desktop color scheme. An expected black/orange redesign back in the 8.04 days never materialized, but the idea of a visual refresh never went away.
The new theme uses “light” as the model. The iconic logo has also been refreshed slightly with a thinner font and overall reduction in size. The Canonical design document claims, “We're drawn to Light because it denotes both warmth and clarity, and intrigued by the idea that 'light' is a good value in software.” There are two different looks currently posted on the wiki page, it is unclear which will be the new default theme. Both have purple and orange elements, while one makes heavy use of slate grey, and the other uses light tans. These are still in the early stages, but it seems clear that Ubuntu will never look the same again.
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bjoswald
March 12, 2010 at 1:19am
Call me crazy, but I think I just fell in love with the darker theme!
Keith E. Whisman
March 03, 2010 at 8:56pm
Purple and Brown are two colors that I've noticed that African Americans prefer. I am of course in an inter racial marriage and can say this as an insider. So the color change is in keeping with the Africa Theme of Ubuntu. And I do love Ubuntu but it's not completely easy to use because it does alot to keep you from mucking around in the system as SU unless you use Ubuntu on a daily basis Ubuntu is a little difficult at first especially when all you want to do is install sound and video drivers and the SU command wont work until you change some other settings.. LOL..
I don't use Ubuntu alot just ever so often and therefore I'm not entirely familiar. So it shouldn't be that hard but it is unless Ubuntu has changed it since that last time I mucked around in Ubuntu about 8months ago.
The colors to me at least are very appealing as were the old brown colors.
van_helblaze
March 03, 2010 at 9:20pm
Well 10.04 has a lot of new changes, one being that it will read iPod's and iPhone's out of the box, no extra installs necessary, If my printer would work with Linux, I would deffinatly have my netbook running Ubuntu as it's sole operating system, (I dual boot with Windows 7, Ubuntu has better battery life)
filip007
March 03, 2010 at 6:23pm
Menu are too dark...
I use snow leopard purple wallpaper and purple color as basic selection color it doesn't get any better than this, just combine the extreme together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuKjsQ6j1yI
van_helblaze
March 03, 2010 at 5:38pm
I like it, I've been using the Studio edition's theme on my netbook because it's less brown, looking forward to this come April
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