Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Sun 13th Jul 2008 17:26 UTC, submitted by ZephyrCat
For many, their first experience with Fedora leaves them in awe of the incredible artwork. This is an important part of Fedora's reputation, so if you're a fan of Fedora art, you should definitely check out what the art team has come up with.
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To be honest, altough I dislike Ubuntu itself a little, I love there colour scheme. I find it the most comfortable scheme there is. I actually set dwm to use the exact same colours.
My girlfriend who does like Ubuntu loves it also, but she loathes the standard theme of Fedora. People just have different tastes.
(btw Ubuntu's colours go well with our curtains :-) )
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RE[2]: Ubuntu != beautiful
by cmost on Wed 16th Jul 2008 03:55
in reply to "RE: Ubuntu != beautiful"
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Fedora always puts tegether a gorgeous and consistent theme for each release. I especially love the Solar system theme proposed here. I can't, however, believe some people here are even mentioning Ubuntu when talking about artful theming in a Linux distribution. Forgive me for the imminent flame war but Ubuntu is ugly. Sorry fanboys, but it is. Furthermore, it hasn't changed much since its inaugural release. Oh wait, it did create the Ubuntulooks engine which it quickly set to orange and brown, just like the inaugural release, and left it in place for every release since. Wow, how innovating. When Edgy was set to debut, an entirely new theme was designed. We all waited with bated breath hoping against hope that the days of splattered pumpkin were over...no such luck. At the last minute it was "decided" that the same old human theme would remain. Then 7.04 and 7.10 came and went with no change to the default theme. Whatever happend to that new theme? Then again, our hopes were raised when it was announced that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS would sport a new theme..finally. Then, as before, it was decided at the last minute to retain the human theme yet again (so as not to confuse Enterprise users or some such ridiculous reasoning.) What's wrong with the Ubuntu developers? Obviously someone over there has a love affair with garish color schemes. I know Ubuntu has sort of created a calling card for itself by sticking with this horrid default theme as opposed to more soothing colors (flying in the face of years of usability studies conducted by Apple and others) but at some point things must change. At the very least, give us a couple of choices with a default installation!! We now have such fantastic innovations as Gnome compositing, Avant Window navigator, dynamic wallpapers, and pages upon pages of gorgeous GTK themes and icon themes courtesy of the always innovating Linux user base (see gnome-look.org for many examples.) I hope a change of guard occurs before too long and someone with some marketing sense as well as a sense of aesthetics is installed as an influential Ubuntu developer.