Comments on: Ubuntu 8.10 Screenshot Gallery: New Human-Murrine Theme

By: symon

symon — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:37:26 +0000

lol well Omar…
maybe we can just say that you are young at heart
and the “majority” of the gnome team or grandpa’s still using their amiga’s that love the blocky old style gui’s. lol. I dunno… I just can’t understand why gnome looks the way it does, it works well, but the design is horrible.

Overall, I like gnome for its stability and how everything just works…. and i like kde for their way of thinking and always wanting to have the latest and the greatest when it comes to looks/funtionality and tweaks.
if only kde and gnome can merge together…? hmmm. lol, not gonna happen.

By: Omar Upegui

Omar Upegui — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:20:44 +0000

symon wrote:

arghhh. the ubuntu team must be a bunch of old men that still use atari.

I take issue with this comment. I’m 61 and can be considered by many as an old man; however I use very modern software, hardware, and gadgets. I’ve seen computers owned by people much younger than myself with very old software.

I think age is state of mind, and has nothing to do with years. Just ask George Burns if he was an old man. A good question would be: How old is old?

By: symon

symon — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:07:18 +0000

arghhh. the ubuntu team must be a bunch of old men that still use atari.
ubuntu has always looked crap and always will. end of story. I use to be an ubuntu/gnome fan, now Im so put off by the way they think, that i’ve switched to kde. KDE 4.2 is gonna be da bomb! kudos to the KDE team.
Gnome/ubuntu…get with the damn times! get rid of that 1980’s Look! for the love of god!

By: waver

waver — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:38:20 +0000

It is even uglier

By: waver

waver — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:37:42 +0000

It is still ugly as usual !

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:57:33 +0000

Kevin wrote:

That’s not the new theme. If you check the ubuntu alpha site, it tells you that a bug in the current alpha is that it loads the wrong default theme. You can load the new theme out of the appearance menu. It isn’t supposed to be that classic brown that has always been there.

You're right, there is a bug. The bug is that Human Murrine was supposed to ship as the default, but it wasn't completely enabled. I mentioned that in the article. The theme is NOT drastically different from the current Ubuntu theme.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:01:30 +0000

That’s not the new theme. If you check the ubuntu alpha site, it tells you that a bug in the current alpha is that it loads the wrong default theme. You can load the new theme out of the appearance menu. It isn’t supposed to be that classic brown that has always been there.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:50:01 +0000

Vexorian wrote:

Btw, you should avoid using words like ’space’ for captcha, I was actually typing ‘ ‘ (without quotes)

Huh, never thought about that. Good point.

By: James

James — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:44:06 +0000

Damn, they really gotta ditch the orange, and get Black or some other color. i really dont see the difference between 8.04 and 8.10

By: Vexorian

Vexorian — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:43:43 +0000

Much nicer than the one you linked, too dark, bad yellow plus black combination, and it was quite an incomplete shot.

Btw, you should avoid using words like ’space’ for captcha, I was actually typing ‘ ‘ (without quotes)