As far as I can see, this is finally heading into a cool direction for the average graphics fetishist.
Looking at all these mockups made me realize what bugged me the most when I was trying Ubuntu. It was the default system font. It may sound weird, but imo this was the ugliest thing on Ubuntu, and it was never changed. I hope, that they finally included a more reader-friendly font, where the words don't look as if they were smacked a n d t h a t s p a c i n g s u c k e d t o o . Of course, you could change the default font and skin and everything, but as a noob to Linux in general this is the stuff that made me feel not right from the start.

Now here's some interesting stuff.
First mockup, I assume
Clear Intrepid
Good Dark Theme
Dark Orange
Sharp Chocolate
Silver Wings
Ubuntu Dark #1
Ubuntu Dark #2
Ubuntu Dust
Dunno the name

All this can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/

This seems like the final skin and looks pretty cool to me. I'm seriously considering to get this thingie on my not-yet-existant laptop.

It's not even brown. Great. Kubuntu with KDE 4.1.x will be nicer IMO.

Some of those looks NICE. Ubuntu does not need to be brown.

Some of the mockups look very nice. But looking at the video from the alpha it is the same thing again. GTK is too limited to achieve the nice effects in the mockups.

dIM wrote:Some of the mockups look very nice. But looking at the video from the alpha it is the same thing again. GTK is too limited to achieve the nice effects in the mockups.

What GTK limitations are you referring to? I haven't spottet anything in the mockups yet I couldn't imagine being doable with GTK - much of that is compositing, which isn't in the responsibility of the toolkit.

gnome vs kde flamewar starts in 3...2...1....

GnomeDE sucks!

KNOME sucks!

XFluxCEnlightenment sucks!

In my opinion the windows xp luna beats both gnome and kde looks, even macOS looks pathetic in comparison.

*runs off and never dares to look into this thread again*












for the ones that might think I was being serious: I wasn't. I just wanted to see if I could attract some trolls

Ed wrote:It's not even brown. Great. Kubuntu with KDE 4.1.x will be nicer IMO.

KDE 4.1.1 is still pretty unusable. There is a huge lack of options and dual monitors... forget it. Maybe by 4.2 it'll be usable. But as a power user, I found it hindered my performance more than anything.

Hey, it's dave!

anyways, I think the default theme is still the same, I don't really know though...

Psychcf wrote:Hey, it's dave!

This puzzling exclamation aside, the new human theme they're including is lightyears ahead of the old human theme, and works well with the exception of firefox elements, where the dark brown buttons and drop-downs have black text.

Self fulfilling prophecy, woo hoo!

I found this today. Looks like an even more noob-friendly distribution than Ubuntu or Mandriva. (in fact it's an Ubuntu-fork, thus compatible to its repositories) Very Vista-esque Start menu for the Windows-users out there.
It seems to have a better hardware compatibility than Ubuntu too.
The problem/bless is that it uses proprietary plugins out of the box, which doesn't quite match the Open Source philosophy, but seems to work. And that's what Average Joe wants from an OS right from the start. Gotta try to foist this on a friend of mine, whose PC has been all mixed up by a nice trojan. She's gonna be my guinea pig

yay! guinea pigs FTW!

(btw, guinea pig is "cochon d'Inde" in french)