Re: New default theme is unpleasant

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 18:10 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote:

> It appears to me that the two major issues are:
> 
> In applications with a large toolbar at the top, the "glossy-gradient"
> effect is a huge throwback to the days of Crux. It's a large departure
> from the old Clearlooks that used a flat surface for the toolbar. The
> top of every window looks like a shinny speedbump, now.
> 
> The color temperature has gone from a more human-friendly warm color
> to something more "blue and icy".
> 
> All in all, it feels less friendly, more sharp-edged.

You might want to bring up your concerns over on the
gnome-themes-list... less traffic over there to get lost in :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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