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New look for Ubuntu with the release of Lucid Lynx!
Xiong Chiamiov:
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--- Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on March 13, 2010, 05:15:40 AM ---The Windows 7 windowing decorations are a straight copy of the most popular QT theme (Oxygen?). The issue is that Ubuntu (combined with the terribleness that was KDE 4.0) has people convinced that Gnome is the prettiest "Linux" there is, which is completely not true, according to most people's aesthetics.
Honestly, Linux can be quite beautiful. Most of us just don't feel the need to make it so.
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I believe you, it just seems that well-done Gnome, KDE, xfce, etc themes are in the minority. The last time I had a look around places like gnome-look.org I can honestly say that I was not impressed at all. Perhaps I was just looking in the wrong places... do you have any suggestions as to where these aesthetically pleasing Linux themes might be hiding?
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Try KDE-look. Screenshot threads are always nice (and people usually provide links to their configs), although they do tend to lean towards the minimalistic.
nstgc:
I'd advice against KDE. Its kinds kind of glitchy and not as functional as it looks.
iindigo:
Indeed. Last I tried it, it was also something of a clunkbeast in comparison to other WMs...
darkphon22:
I'm a huge fan of the Elementary icon theme, Albatross GTK+ theme, and Xfce for many of these reasons. The themes are simple and easy-to-recognize but quite beautiful as well.
Xfce is awesome because of its configurablity and speed. Everything down to how your clock displays time is easily customizible (and 99.9% of time you don't have to edit a text file, though there is always that option). Most of all though, it is designed to be fast and to stay out of your way. There are no animations as there is no reason to hide slowness. Windows can simply pop-up instead of ssssllllliiiiddding into view.
User interfaces should not just be pretty, they should be elegant and even graceful, which is a much harder thing to achieve.
nstgc:
Xfce is indeed nice. Its clean, functional, and fast. The Xfce task bar also comes with an icon box. Its functionality is comparable to the WIndows 7 taskbar, and below that of OS X's. I would use Xfce if it weren't for the fact that Compiz Fusion works better with Gnome. The Scale plug-in (which is what they call expose) is extremely useful, making multitasking so much easier.
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