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You can also download the ibex colors wallpapers:
[[attachment:ibexcolorswallpapers.png]]

Concept

Gnome-colors is an icons scheme which provided a plethora of consistent icons which have the potential to bring new life to the Ubuntu; they are provided with 4 color schemes: brave (blue), human (orange), wise (green) and wine (red). Using the gnome colors icon themes in Ubuntu (human as default of course), we would benefit on many levels:

  • Visual appearances; all of the icons look brilliant and would serve to refresh the Ubuntu desktop.

  • Consistency; gnome-colors provides more icons by far than human so it would have less risk of exposing default icons (such as in synaptic or logos on the menus) which look atrocious on a modern desktop. It also provides custom icon schemes in extras for programs such as inkscape which make them fit in much better.

  • Maintainability; gnome-colors, unlike the current human scheme, benefits from active upstream development on google code meaning it is being constantly improved whereas the human icon theme seems to have stagnated to some extent.

  • Themeability/giving the users what they want; often heard are complaints about how brown the human theme is, almost just as often one hears complaints about any other colour scheme a distro chooses because different colors appeal to different people. If we use gnome-colors this would gives the user the ability to switch between 4 different colourisations of the same icon theme which should serve most users and if we just make 4 recolored versions of the default desktop wallpaper (a simple job in GIMP) and duplicate the metacity theme with different colored highlights we will be able to ship with 4 complete and consistent, color coordinated schemes for the Ubuntu desktop out of the box.

Images

themesthumb.png

Fullsize Comparison of color schemes

synapticthumb.png

Fullsize Synaptic before and after

Testing

You can download the icon themes from the gnomelook page (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GNOME-colors?content=82562), and you must extract all of the icon archives to /usr/share/icons. Next you can download the download one of the themes using gnome-colors from below, extract it and place it in /usr/share/themes:

You can also download the ibex colors wallpapers: ibexcolorswallpapers.png

Google code project: http://code.google.com/p/gnome-colors/

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  • [get | view] (2008-12-29 16:30:26, 0.4 KB) [[attachment:Ubuntu Colors Brave.tar.gz]]
  • [get | view] (2008-12-29 16:30:36, 0.4 KB) [[attachment:Ubuntu Colors Human.tar.gz]]
  • [get | view] (2008-12-29 16:30:46, 0.4 KB) [[attachment:Ubuntu Colors Wine.tar.gz]]
  • [get | view] (2008-12-29 16:30:57, 0.4 KB) [[attachment:Ubuntu Colors Wise.tar.gz]]
  • [get | view] (2008-12-29 19:27:15, 63.6 KB) [[attachment:gnome-colors human.png]]
  • [get | view] (2008-12-29 19:04:27, 6483.1 KB) [[attachment:ibexcolorswallpapers.png.tar.gz]]
  • [get | view] (2008-12-29 15:55:35, 571.5 KB) [[attachment:synaptic.png]]
  • [get | view] (2008-12-29 15:56:01, 405.5 KB) [[attachment:synapticthumb.png]]
  • [get | view] (2008-12-29 15:21:26, 946.6 KB) [[attachment:themes.png]]
  • [get | view] (2008-12-29 15:20:33, 517.9 KB) [[attachment:themesthumb.png]]
  • [get | view] (2009-02-05 02:40:00, 68.9 KB) [[attachment:ubuntu-colors.png]]
  • [get | view] (2009-02-05 02:39:44, 66.7 KB) [[attachment:ubuntu-human.png]]
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