Eugenia writes "The Gnome Project announcedtoday that the ClearLooks theme engine will be the default theme for the Gnome 2.12 (to be released around September). This was a much needed refresh of the Gnome default desktop (old theme, new theme screenshots)."
Yes, make it look more like Windows XP, that'll make it "prettier!" *sigh*
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> everything in the UI is too pronounced.
Well of course, they want you 100% aware that you are running Gome. So every interface detail has to scream GNOME APPLICATION all the time. Then you will LOVE GNOME and RECOMMEND IT TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS. GNOME GNOME GNOME!! (To be fair, KDE does the same kinds of stuff).
A "desktop environment" is a nice thing to have for programmers, but ideally it should be something that be nearly invisible to the end user. Unfortunately the X GUI world has decided to place a big marketing emphisis on KDE versus Gnome, that means very pronounced visual cues in your face.
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Yes, make it look more like Windows XP, that'll make it "prettier!" *sigh*
> everything in the UI is too pronounced.
Well of course, they want you 100% aware that you are running Gome. So every interface detail has to scream GNOME APPLICATION all the time. Then you will LOVE GNOME and RECOMMEND IT TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS. GNOME GNOME GNOME!! (To be fair, KDE does the same kinds of stuff).
A "desktop environment" is a nice thing to have for programmers, but ideally it should be something that be nearly invisible to the end user. Unfortunately the X GUI world has decided to place a big marketing emphisis on KDE versus Gnome, that means very pronounced visual cues in your face.
It's because GTK eats balls. Gaim has the same problem, too.