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Ubuntu Gets a New Visual Identity
buntcake writes "Canonical has launched a new visual identity for the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Ubuntu is shedding its previous brown look and adopting a more professional color scheme with purple and orange. The colors will be used in a new GNOME theme and boot splash for Ubuntu 10.04. According to updated design documents that were published in the Ubuntu wiki, 'light' is the underlying concept behind the new visual identity. It displaces the 'human' concept that has been part of Ubuntu's theming and brand vernacular for the past five years. Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon has posted a screenshot and additional information."
They changed the color scheme from brown to beige. How exciting.
The small icons are still too cluttered. They're simply smaller versions of the large icons, which never works very well.
I'm sad that the babysh*t brown color will go away!!!
I choked on the same phrase: "a more professional color scheme with purple and orange"
Say it with me, boys. "Ubuntu: Jumping the shark has never looked so professional!"
Don't you worry. In the 15 years I've been doing web and interface design, I've never heard the words 'purple', 'orange' and 'professional' used in the same sentence.
Then you'd hate the suit I wear to work...
Does anyone else think it looks more like mac os X?
Yeah I can see the plan.
'Hmm... What colour could potentially be uglier than brown...'
'Purple!!! Of course!!!'
Next site I do, I'm making purple, orange, and professional my only design goals.
True that.
"We changed the wallpaper!" OMG! NEWS!
Also everything about Ubuntu and the word brown, such as: ..."
"Ubuntu is shedding its previous brown look"
always reminds me of Apples Zune ad, can't find it on YouTube but it's like they talk about all the colors options and then mentions "[pause] brown
Hurray for brown!
You may want to check your sarcasm detector to see if it was on the big recall list last spring. If not, you probably have your filter threshold set wrong (remember, 1.0 on the filter means "never detect sarcasm," not "always detect sarcasm").
--MarkusQ
After all, it's not all that hard to get new themes for GTK or anything, but still, Purple and Orange?
Two things are clear:
1. Heavy drug use is now too commonplace at Canonical.
2. The drugs they are currently using last long enough for them to make a press release and a couple of websites demonstrating the effects of said drugs.
The only question that remains is what are they smoking and where can I get some?
they went from the color of the asshole to the color of the cock head.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
An Uninterpretable Power Supply is basically a honking big battery (or, in advanced models, a desktop fusion setup) that takes over when the normal electrical supply fails.
And sarcasm is a way of making a rhetorical point by stating something that is obviously untrue and yet is a plausible deduction to reach from a position you are trying to rebut.
Of course, you probably already knew that.
--MarkusQ
Wait a minute... Something was said... Something not good...
I lol'd that JayRott thought it was a "new look". I just gave my Win7 a "new look" by changing the background on the desktop and the colour of the Window frames.
Makes me wonder why this is even newsworthy. Surely there's better things that Ubuntu could be doing?
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Brown and orange at least look good together, like gold or wheat (they finally moved away from baby poop brown and used more orange in the last few releases). Purple and orange look like domestic violence.
You might wanna get that checked out.
How is the mascot gig going anyway?
So Canonical are trying something different, for better or worse.
Yeah, the only problem is that the controls and icons still look like they were drawn by programmers in GIMP.
It is for the Phoenix Suns basketball team.
Life is not for the lazy.
I knew there at to be at least one pimp on slashdot. Do you have the feather hat to match the suit?
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
Ubuntu gets a new theme and ./ STILL uses the Debian icon?
those dotslash people are so behind the times, I hope that never happens at slashdot..
Maybe with some spiffy ads:
"Hi my name is Bobby Jo, and Oohbantu 10.4 waz mine idea."
Ubuntu dumps the brown
I'm an accomplished adult and yet I can only barely resist the urge to make a poo joke.
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Visually, light is a prerequisite.
Some of my favourite people are from th US; Vonnegut, Chomsky, Bill Hicks.
additional minus points for use of 'intrigued'. they're only a gooseberry away from sounding like jilly goolden...
Cabernet/Shiraz Ubuntu, non-vintage:: "It's intense, it's heady, it's like hot Bakewell tart. Like fairy cakes just taken out of the oven - that lovely, lovely, hauntingly sort of sweet fruity taste with a little lactic, pastry edge to it. And it's also got, of course, blackcurrant pastilles."
That said, I do change the compiz desktop to use the cube to impress the ladies, and it helps me keep desktops straight since I'm spatially oriented.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
purple and orange?
They must be kidding.
HA, WRONG!
They were drawn by Shuttleworth's secretary in GIMP.
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011