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Ubuntium

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This concept is for a name of an icon theme and i was inspired by the name of the element Ununbium on the periodic table, and I thought Ubuntium (although I spell the title wrong) I'm not exactly sure what the icon theme will look like but I would like the icons to resemble what you are clicking on them for, for example if its folder with pictures there needs to be some kind of picture logo (or pictures in the folder previewed) so the user can easily be able to distinguish from different photo albums. Device icons need to be similar to what they are in really life so that a user can think "Oh thats my camera" and not " is it drive f, or d" and having to click every single drive to find what they wont. Icons need to be easier to access from the desktop. There needs to be some way of putting a usb stick or cd rom what ever it may be and instead of the annoying what "do you want to do" it pops up in a dock kind of thing. The icons need to be more graphical and nice for the eye to know what they mean instantly. Since coming from windows myself I was fortunate to be persistent at using linux because of getting viruses all the time and not wanting to be anti virus and the next best version of windows to enjoy the graphics. Remember not everybody is like me and they are going to want something flashy and original, nothing that has been done before will grab there attention. so i'm not exactly sure but I will hopefully work on some icons over the next few weeks and see what I come up with.

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This is what have come up for my first try of a folder Icon, it isn't obviously total original and I will try to refine and tweak it to make it look better. Please feedback is wanted so I know what I need to change my opinion is probably not yours and you might have some good points.

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Here is my device dock, simple yet in principle should be quite effective, This allows someone to keep their desktop tidy no matter what device the mount and unmount from their computer, icons don't get muddled up yet you can still easily access your icons from the desktop.

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* In gconf-editor, there's an option to let media appear on your desktop. So when you plug in your camera, external harddisk, the icon appears on your desktop. And in AWN (that's a dock) they can also automatically pop up. Arnout.

Hi, Arnout Yeah I know about awn and that but i guess that portion of my idea should maby be left to awn. I do have an idea that for me because my desktop isn't the tidiest and I needed to be able to open things quickly with out CD and other icons getting mixed up on top of each other, there should be a portion of the screen designated to Drives and media sort of like a dock I guess. Thanks for your comment it was greatly appreciated

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