The fourth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release includes the all-new artwork for the 2008 Spring release, further improvements to the Mandriva software management tools, WPA-EAP support in the network configuration tools, KDE 3.5.9 and available 4.0.1, some new default applications in KDE and GNOME, and the latest pre-release of OpenOffice.org 2.4. See here for download information. And URPMI got support for rpm5.
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Member since:2008-03-02
Well, I see that as branding. Ubuntu is brown and brown is Ubuntu. When you see those brown desktops in a Google search, you know that those are Ubuntu desktops. It is recognised, and they cultivate that brand recognition.
They could, of course, do something keeping the colours but changing other things, like the the theme engine, or the icons, or the panels (which they have done). I, personally, would like that they kept the colours because they help giving the distribution identity, something desirable in a 'market' as diverse as that of Linux distributions 
And please forgive any broken English found in this message. I try to keep it within the bounds of sanitary regulations 
Member since:2005-07-24
Love it or hate it... Ubuntu's choice of color scheme was daring. I'm no graphic artist, but twenty-eight years of sitting in front of computer monitors has taught me that brown is probably the most variable color there is when it comes to different monitors, display cards, and lighting conditions. It can look very good. But then change the lighting a bit, and you've got baby feces as your background image. And even when it looks good, brown still has that unfortunate association with solid waste.
I like the Ubuntu theme alright. But I would not be averse to them switching to, say, green. Green is a nice, warm positive sort of "feel good" color. It suggests "nature". And it is easier to get right on a variety of displays.
As an aside, I note that cmost managed, as usual, to get his usual anti-Ubuntu comment in, under this thread about a completely different distro.
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2006-07-16
If by "Human" you mean the point at which they switched to orange icons and the Ubuntulooks GTK engine, you're right of course. Those did arrive with 6.06. I'm referring to the overall brown look (wallpaper, default color scheme, etc.) that has indeed been with Ubuntu since its inception with only small tweaks made here and there with each new version. Take a look at Google images for screenshots of the very first Ubuntu release up to the current 7.10 release. You'll be hard pressed to spot anything significantly different by taking just a passing glance. I expect more from Ubuntu, frankly. With another LTS release looming, they've really missed an opportunity to present something truly spectacular on the surface to match the innovation under the hood.