The next alpha release of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (Herd 2) is out. The Kubuntu announcement is here. "The Feisty Fawn Herd 2 is the second alpha release of Ubuntu 7.04, and with this new alpha release comes a whole host of excellent new features. The feature list for 7.04 has been slowly growing more exact since Feisty opened late last month." Update: Screenshots for Ubuntu and Kubuntu.
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Member since:2007-01-12
Try a different style or kwin theme. --> www.kde-look.org
Looking good out of the box really isn't (k)Ubuntu's strength... 
I am meant to understand that the above graphic would not be possible without some form of Microsoft input! I hope I am wrong.
Am I meant to understand what you wanted to say here?
Member since:2005-06-29
Member since:2005-07-07
well, i like the purple, tough the default Ubuntu theme is beautiful as well. i can understand why they try to modify the default look, tough - all distro's look so the same.
btw about the parent's screenshot, that's pretty much the default look, but with ugly, non-anti-aliased fonts, right?
Member since:2005-07-06
I don't think your example looks beautiful and crisp, but it's rather easy to make fonts look like that in KDE. Open KDE controll center select Appearance & Themes -> Fonts and uncheck the Use anti-aliasing for fonts box.
Personally I prefer smooth aliased fonts, the opposite looks so windows 3.1 :-)
Member since:2005-10-06
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Member since:2005-12-28
The claims that either Ubuntu Gnome or Kubuntu KDE are ugly start to wear thin when one realizes that it takes all of 5 minutes and a drop of imagination to manipulate your desktop to your liking. Ubuntu doesn't have to be brown, and Kubuntu doesn't have to be clunky and ugly.
So in light of this -- and I've never done this before -- I'm posting some screenshots of my Kubuntu setup on Edgy Eft. It's not busy, it's easy to look at for a long time without strain (for me, anyway), and I've had good comments from friends in the past. And once you get a setup that you like on KDE, it's easy enough to save it as a theme, and you can even upload it to kde-look.org. If you don't like them, that's your prerogative, but the point is KDE doesn't have to be ugly and you can easily alter it to your tastes.
So, the screenshots:
Desktop shot #1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/18498574@N00/357538509/in/set-72157594...
Desktop shot #2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/18498574@N00/357538514/in/set-72157594...
Desktop shot #3: http://www.flickr.com/photos/18498574@N00/357538517/in/set-72157594...
Edited 2007-01-15 00:00
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2007-01-14
Kubuntu's KDE interface is still ugly, sadly. I wonder when it will be possible to have a typical KDE application as beautiful, crisp and a pleasure to look at by default as shown here.
http://kdevelop.org/graphics/screenshots/3.0/subclassing2.png
I am meant to understand that the above graphic would not be possible without some form of Microsoft input! I hope I am wrong.