Posted on March 9, 2010 - by jono
I Never Realized…
…that this part of my desktop could feel so sleek:
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, we are ready for you. 
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March 9, 2010
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Agreed, I’m loving lucid!
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March 9, 2010
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Sure does look great.
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March 9, 2010
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A certain included theme would like to disagree: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/961121/screenshot_108.png
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March 9, 2010
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Any theme that doesn’t differentiate the close button by a bright red color must do so by placing it in the corner of the window instead.
Dust simply should not be used with these window control button positions.
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March 9, 2010
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In all fairness to the other corners, it all looks pretty good!
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March 9, 2010
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Simon, esta buenisima!! (yeap, it’s awesome)
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March 9, 2010
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Indeed!
Now if we could turn our attention to the top-left of the windows, and fix the order of buttons there. That will be so cool!
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March 9, 2010
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Sexy !
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March 9, 2010
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A couple of those icons look awfully familiar…
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March 9, 2010
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There’s nothing new under the sun. Icons, GUI configurations, UI concepts, guidelines.. they’re not created.
They’re discovered.
Apple is the Columbus of user interfaces. You’d be foolish to think that a good implementation of any basic concept would look significantly different from theirs. Not Invented Here is an ultimately fatal disease for any serious software project.
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March 10, 2010
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Yeah, but… nearly exact, pixel-for-pixel copies?
Forget Mono, Apple has and will sue for less than that.
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March 9, 2010
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It looks great! unless you use other applications that do not play well with this theme… https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/535068
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March 9, 2010
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Looks awesome! Can’t wait to upgrade!
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March 9, 2010
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I really cant believe the look! I keep seeing my desktop and going “its purple!!!” and I feel like a villian from Shaft wearing a purple fuzzy jacket. Such a great side affect of a new identity
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March 9, 2010
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You should see Ars Technica’s review of the theme… It’s not that good at all.
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March 9, 2010
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You should try it on a netbook, with 70% of the panel being just the notification area…
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March 12, 2010
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Yeah. The spacing of the notification area is WAY TOO MUCH. And inconsistent with the spacing in the applets.
But that’s like the other BIG usability bugs, they’ve introduced in the last release.
they fucked up the GDM: it doesn’t fit on 1024 width anymore. How can you not notice this? How could you possible ship this?
the notification bubble, is not in the top right corner, but just below it. They aren’t going to fix it, because the 100+ people reporting this as a bug is explained it’s a feature. They reserve space for the volume/brightness notification. Which is just ridiculous.
SO everything, they do something, they do it almost perfectly and then they fuck it up with inconsistency.
I’m not even going to touch the window buttons positions.
Let me take a dared guess; and I work with a lot of professional designers (i’m not one of them); this is not done by designers.
This is not done, by people, who have an actual clue.
Spacing needs to be consistent. Buttons needs to be at appropiate places, and take into consideration that we close a window about 100 times a day.
Real designers would start with a visual grid. Not just random chosen spacing.
PLEASE CANONICAL.
HIRE DESIGNERS.
THIS IS GOING WRONG AND IT”S IN THE DETAILS!
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April 6, 2010
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You’re totally right!! they’re changing everything every time, it’s good to rethink some things and change them, but not everything!, the windows buttons has to be on the right! as always, this is not Mac. Why they didn’t redesign nautilus interface which is so old and need a refresh?!
Despite these details, ubuntu is great! and although sometimes I do not agree with certain changes, each version gets better and better!
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March 9, 2010
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I actually wanted it PURPLE.
http://twitter.com/owaislone/status/9391695858
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March 9, 2010
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Mostly agreed!
Couple nits though.
1) Text in the clock looks cramped. I find myself having a hard time focusing where to start reading it.
2) The bubble icon next to the username seems out of place.
3) The spacing between network-manager icon and sound-volume icons are different than the others. (Probably a container spacing issue in the notification area applet).
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March 10, 2010
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Does it look like that on a default install? Looks a bit crowded.
(and suggesting “crazy” things like not showing weather and date by default will make some people go berserk, sure, but really…)
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March 10, 2010
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And now turn font down to 9 or 8 instead of 10 and it’ll look even more sleek!
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March 10, 2010
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Looks fabulous, indeed.
I haven’t updated yet, and (shame on me) left aside my testing duties, so I have one question:
How does it look like for non-outofthebox applications? I’m thinking about Dropbox for example. Is there a mechanism to replace icons or applications that don’t have a nice grayish version? Or are we stuck asking the developers?
Thanks!
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March 10, 2010
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Not possible at all in dropbox because it’s closed source and its icon is compiled. Open apps can always be modded though. GREAT
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March 10, 2010
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ahem GREAT looking os, design team. Kudos again.
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March 10, 2010
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Hey guys, there is a vote going on about this on the Dropbox feature request voting system: https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/58/customize-linux-tray-icon
If you are a Dropbox user, please vote!
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March 10, 2010
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Looks great, but doesn’t work too well for me, no mousewheel for sound volume and tooltips only for programs which don’t use the message indicator. These are really big dealbreakers for me.
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March 22, 2010
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I totally concur. Wouldn’t it be wise to have separate applets and indicators (so that we get to choose which one we would like to have up there)?
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March 10, 2010
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Does seem like the icons are rather inconsistently spaced
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March 11, 2010
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Agreed. Un even and way too much spacing. But that’s just the icon, wait until you upen up the menus!!! huge left column >>> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox-applet/+bug/533548
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March 10, 2010
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It looks pretty nice (except the green), but it’s also not in any particular order. The application stuff should be at the far left, not the wifi/volume/battery stuff.
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March 10, 2010
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Given that I don’t know where the home of Canonical is, I cannot stop asking myself how Apple would change (if they every cared) “Redmond, start your photocopiers!”
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March 10, 2010
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Sorry to be a downer, but that eggplant color is just awful. Bring back the orange.
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March 10, 2010
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It really doesn’t do it for me. Inconsistent spacing and patchy icon quality do not a great look make. And the difference between ‘illuminated’ (volume control) and ‘not illuminated’ (mail icon) is way too subtle to be useful.
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March 10, 2010
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+1 for the inconsistent spacing especially with the radiance/ambiance theme.
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March 10, 2010
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It is quite pretty, but I don’t plan on switching from openbox/tint2 any time soon.
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March 10, 2010
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I really like the new brandng. http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/1251/captureqr.png
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March 10, 2010
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I like the direction where this is going, but I’d like some more consistency before calling this sleek. Right now there are:
inconsistencies in size (volume, IM status and battery small, network, shutdown and rhythmbox large, envelope and weather medium)
inconsistencies in color (some icons are darker and the IM status is the only thing with color)
inconsistencies in style (the IM status is the only thing with gradients and some status are contour-based while others are solid)
inconsistencies in position: they seem randomly placed with words in between, with no evident grouping rule.
The Humanity-Icons in Karmic were much better in consistency. I am really worried whether you said “we are ready” in the sense that this is the final version of the icon theme.
Currently, it feels like a mashup of different themes with no real effort in hiding this.
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March 10, 2010
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At first sight, yes – its sleek.
But after going into details, I must agree with other comments here – it is inconsistent.
…perhaps removing the weather applet and using a sort format for the clock would give it a simpler look, but it still have the issues mentioned(spacing, contrast etc).
Having said that, this is WAY better than the old look – even though its a match with apple’s systray.
Congratz
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March 10, 2010
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Looks really great!
But something wonders me: Ubuntu puts a lot of efforts to polish GNOME2. I really love it (themes, your screenshot, new me-menu,…) and I really appreciate it. It’s the best looking and most functional GNOME I ever seen.
But what happens with GNOME3? Are there any plans to integrate this things nicely into GNOME-Shell? For example what will happen to the IMHO extremely useful me-menu with GNOME3?
Does Ubuntu already has some plans for the post-GNOME2 era?
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March 10, 2010
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I was going to say exactly the same. I am also wondering in how far you can take the theme, notification-usd and whatnot to Gnome 3. Gnome 3 has new icons and a new look that also doesn’t look too bad to be honest.
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I really like the new theme. As has been said too often, there are a few parts of it that copy from Apple directly. Namely the WiFi and Volume icons appear to have been ripped directly from OS X. The they can tweak these a little, Ubuntu will have an awesome theme to call its own completely.
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March 10, 2010
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Me too!
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March 10, 2010
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If you use non-standard apps like Banshee Pidgin Skype Dropbox Compiz Fusion Icon Logout/Shutdown Applet You are currently left out, but nevertheless this is the right direction and beautiful!
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March 10, 2010
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I have to agree that that screenshot of the panel is beautiful.
The b&w icons on the dark grey background has a very simplistic look and just “feels right”, somehow.
Good luck on Lucid Lynx.
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March 11, 2010
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now the windows buttons just need to go back to where they were and were set.
if it stays on the left im moving to fedora.
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March 11, 2010
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Ubuntu should work on the app launchers on the left side of the desktop. They’ve always looked wrong and now they look even worse. Maybe scale them so they are shorter than the panel ? Not sure.
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March 12, 2010
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I’m a bit worried you call this sleeck. The spacing between the panel applets (wireless + volume) is different from the other icons.
Which is, I think, a big regression from lucid. Add to that that they still display notifications at some random area which isn’t the top right (to preverse space for a possible brightness or volume notification).
It just feels clumsy. With all the new magic, which is very cool, consistency is king.
If you loose consistency, the new magic means nothing.
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March 12, 2010
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But in real life it’s not so good
Even popular pidgin it is beaten out from a theme