Comments on: "Ubuntu Light Re-Imagined" Theme Released

By: Delano

Delano — Wed, 05 May 2010 01:54:00 +0000

Hey!! I have some problems with firefox and openoffice, menu texts appear white. Any solution?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:47:00 +0000

No kidding. Even if appearance is somewhat similar, functionality is very different.

By: daas88

daas88 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:17:00 +0000

Good answer. I would add that mac panel doesn’t have an applet like the “Me menu” :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:34:00 +0000

Since its an alpha i’ll not try it. Waiting for a final!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:58:00 +0000

You just need to make the ubuntu panel transparent, increase height, move it to the bottom and it looks just like windows 7.

The fact that the mac one has an application menu across it while ubuntu has applications, places, and system… those are fairly different. Mac has dedicated search, while ubuntu has a user switcher and power options… fairly different. add to that that ubuntu comes with two panels, one on top, one on bottom, and you get even more difference. The mac bottom ‘panel’ is a dock, which is used to launch programs. Ubuntu launches programs from the top left menu.

As far as the icons, how many differeny, efficient ways are there to show sound, or wifi, or a clock?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:49:00 +0000

You just need to make the ubuntu panel transparent, reduce height and it will look just like the mac one. I don’t really see any difference between the icons.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:16:00 +0000

I would love it if there was a way to prevent windows that don’t have all the “minimize, max, and close” icons to load properly, it looks ugly when one side is a smooth round, and the other is this straight line..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:50:00 +0000

Its much thicker then the mac panel. It is much lighter colored. The icons are lighter. And its really not very similar, except its on the top and is moderately monochrome.

By: Paradiesstaub

Paradiesstaub — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:37:00 +0000

Einstellungen means options in German :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:25:00 +0000

I might not like the new themes as much as I like the plymouth theme and the rest of the artwork, but at least they (artwork team) are moving in the right direction, maybe in a few releases the themes will be polished to a point that will surpass the expectations.

I was very disapointed when I saw the GTK+ themes and I bashed the artwork team, but when II thought about it I realized it was a step in the right direction and that the themes weren’t final and are going to be polished.

By: Tom Wright

Tom Wright — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:29:00 +0000

3. Yes, of course – existing themes will work fine in gnome 3 and if that were not the case, the underlying engine would be updated anyway.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:59:00 +0000

I’m sticking with Dust and elementary. But I think this is a good start on implementing the mock-up’s vision. Always great to see slick new themes available. Great work!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:08:00 +0000

I agree completely. Some amateur comes on, makes tweaks on something that the Ubuntu team has been working on for a long time, and people talk about it like they were working on it coincidentally, and this guy made the better one. He basically stole all of their work, and then added a little bit of his own.

I don’t mean any of that with disrespect to this new guy, its alot more work than I would ever be willing to do, people just need to stop mindlessly trashing what the ubuntu team is trying to do.

I actually really liked the original, I especially thought that the indented minimize, maximize and close buttons looked slick, and I miss them here. Its good that people in the Ubuntu community are willing to put in the work to remix themes for themselves and others, but the disrespect here is incredible. I’m a little tired of people praising this guy as a messiah that should replace the Ubuntu team.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:43:00 +0000

Yes, you are right.

You said:
“I love how it takes one amateur designer 48 hours to come up with a theme that trumps what the Ubuntu Art team had months to make. ”

1. He created this theme so fast because he used others work (which is very good).
2. Yes, it is in alpha stage only, so it is not ready for normal user.
3. I don’t now too =)
4. He used docky. Docky without hardware acceleration? That’s why this theme can’t be default :(

I didn’t expect that someone will answer my questions. All I want to say that your post was a bit unfair. Ubuntu Art Team is not only responsible for theming and they must think also about usability, future technologes etc.

Despite this, I am also a bit disappointed. Current theme isn’t bad, but it could be better.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:32:00 +0000

i think that the original theme has its virtues…..and so does this one
however, i would recommend labeling the window buttons (matter of preference i guess)

By: Tom Wright

Tom Wright — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:20:00 +0000

Why on earth would implementing a particular design be ‘impossible’? – some might be difficult without improving GTK and the Window manager, but those are things which need to be done.

By: daas88

daas88 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:17:00 +0000

looks nice, but what is the “Einstellungen” at the left? Is that the menu bar?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:09:00 +0000

I am getting rather frustrated at people bashing the ubuntu art team….
just remember that they were behind this original art and that tweaks are to come
its like saying that arrows are stupid….why didn’t they just make the gun right away?

just my 2 cents

By: nathan

nathan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:02:00 +0000

why does the ubuntu art team can’t come up with “at least” something like this ?????

yeah yeah, free fonts, gnome3, gnome12, compiz 54……….. What about a nice looking theme like this one that doesn’t look retarded like the old one :-p

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:52:00 +0000

Is it just me or is the panel really very similar to Mac panel?