38 thoughts on “5 + 1 beautiful designs for Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex””

1. August 12, 2008 at 2:32 pm

   Dusk is great (I like dark themes) and Wall light is good too. Since I don’t like bright or colorfull themes, I don’t particularly like the other ones.
2. Exsecrabilus August 12, 2008 at 2:56 pm

   1. Long live Human & NewHuman!

   2. Dusk will never make it. It’s not brown. XD!!!!!
3. August 12, 2008 at 4:55 pm

   None of those themes will make it.

   I personally prefer the first theme by far.

   Wall-light is ok, but they will need to drop the dock.

   I don’t like them, and the boys from Canonical will never use a dock for their basic setup.

   I still like the Ibex dark alpha theme, but not many people follow me in that.
4. August 12, 2008 at 7:00 pm

   Dusk and Wall-light are just beautiful
5. bjb_nyj101 August 12, 2008 at 9:54 pm

   Themes numbers 2, 3, 4, and 6 are way too bright and are painful on the eyes.

   Number 1 is nice but it has no brown in it and is using Mac icons, so thats not gonna fly.

   Number 5 looks the best

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7. August 13, 2008 at 2:14 am

   I like 1 very much, 4, 5 & 6 they are really nice and make sure that the light is a little bit darker for the eye but really well done they are awesome ;)

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10. Symen Timmermans August 13, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    I really hate when people put Photoshop icons in linux mockups. What’s that all about? Teasing me with what seems to be a native CS2 installation. I’ve been trying to get Photoshop running on my Ubuntubox for weeks now.
11. August 13, 2008 at 1:19 pm

    Very beautiful mockups indeed.
12. August 13, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    Dusk is really awesome. Are these officially proposed themes ? Is there a place where we can vote ?
13. Fabrizio Balliano Post authorAugust 13, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    @Tiago Rodrigues: these are a sort of officially proposed but these are only mockups, not real themes. I don’t think there’s a place where you can vote them, except here :-)

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16. spud August 14, 2008 at 3:45 am

    I like wall-light the best but not the icon theme although it is still loads better than the default ones. (Why do people think the swiftfox icon is so good) Firefox 2006 and 2008 are much better alternatives. I would like it if an ibex is incorporated in the theme like they did with heron.

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19. Wallis August 14, 2008 at 10:05 pm

    2 thumbs up for the wall light! It is just really pleasing to look at.

    1 thumb up for Dusk. But I think this one is too dark. I like some more contrast.

    The rest of them: EEWH! The choise of the colors and all: It looks like… like a mother that let her kids go crazy with her painting equiptment..
    Plain ugly
20. August 15, 2008 at 10:25 am

    When is Canonical going to take Marketing 101, and drop the horrendously ugly orange/brown nonsense in favor of something more refined, like Wall Light? I mean sure, you can change it but people aren’t rational economists. They like to see something that is beautiful and elegant by default. Bands use clever album names and cover artwork, restaurants and architecture firms use bright and bold logos and fonts. There’s a reason. Looks matter. Wake up for christ’s sake.
21. Curt Hendzell August 15, 2008 at 12:48 pm

    Check out what’s entered in the calculator on the Union theme (last one). LOL!
22. Chris Lees August 15, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    Personification isn’t bad. I would prefer Sauna () or Sauna Dark () – or even better, a theme that takes the best elements from both.
23. Brent August 21, 2008 at 7:01 am

    I have my Ubuntu Hardy set up as close as I can get to Wall-light. It’s simply the most pleasant theme to look at that I have seen so far. Needs some tweaking though.
24. Jake August 21, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    LOL look at the calculator on “Union” 5318008 haha
25. Fabrizio Balliano Post authorAugust 21, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    For who wants to know what “5318008” means:
    
    :-)
26. brett August 22, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    They should make a trafelger theme to go with kith and kin
27. August 27, 2008 at 8:28 am

    The themes are absolutely incredible :D Is there a place where we can vote ?
28. lionbeast August 27, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    i have photoshop installed since gutsy. and never had a problem with it. just check you have the latest version of wine. put the install cd. and voila. never had a problem.
29. August 28, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    Awsome themes.. but how do I install them?
30. Fabrizio Balliano Post authorAugust 28, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    @JulioHM: these cannot be installed now, they are simple mockups not real themes.
31. Dazed August 28, 2008 at 6:32 pm

    Why is ubuntu entirely focused on visual effects? Those are the best thing it has going for it already. Face it, ubuntu alrady looks great.

    God forbid they knock down a few of the million annoying bugs. Or implement directx support.

    Nah, just keep rereleasing the same OS with a different wallpaper loaded… that’s cool.
32. Aidan August 30, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    I like the first one… as a Mac user, I have to say, if your operating system doesn’t require that you use a Dock, don’t use one. It’s probably one of my least favorite things about Macs. Plus, I like designers who do their own thing instead of copying Apple.
33. Inan September 10, 2008 at 3:09 am

    Very nice, my choices would be 1, 4 and 5.
    Thanks for sharing.
34. Steve October 9, 2008 at 9:16 am

    First theme is called ‘Dust’, not ‘Dusk’.

    :)
35. lucious October 27, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    I’m truly amazed by the wall-light and looking forward to installing it =)

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37. pedja_portugalac December 19, 2008 at 1:11 am

    N°5. Wall-light looks great.

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