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Ubuntu Dust

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Description:

Dust is a concept for a new, refreshing look for Ubuntu. The idea was to take the defining aesthetic elements of Ubuntu and remix it into something clean, modern, functional, and unique.

It's a new take on the Ubuntu aesthetic using a dark palette and subtle colors.

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alex100
12 years ago

Exactly my opinion.

New Scrollbar = ugly.

Sep 14 is definitely the most usable release so far (I dislike current toolbar as well)

ou3
12 years ago

I don't mind it.. only thing I'd change would probably be to make the background a little darker so there's more contrast between the scrollbar's fore/background.

krig
12 years ago

on 8.04 not work :(

rico-ambiescent
12 years ago

Did you try the DEBs of Murrine, and did you extract to ~/.themes?

alex100
12 years ago

Unfortunately Eclipse is buggy as well.

Dark toolbars are really ugly. Please consider a "light-toolbar" hack for Eclipse - if possible - as well.

Anyways, I really like Dust!

KingCam
12 years ago

As of the September 13th update, there is a new menu button, and well... it sucks, even after I flipped the image to try and make it flow with the design better, I find it is still very ugly. I would recommend that is looses the 'inset', and becomes just a symbol, like the circle you already have. The circle btw, is flawed as well, if you zoom in on it, it has 2 misplaced pixels on it, making it look like it has horns.

Enough of the critisism, I must say that this is one of the most professional looking themes for GTK, good work!

greasedbolt
12 years ago

Reverted to the old left-aligned version anyway. The centered text wasn't so nice.

greasedbolt
12 years ago

No, scratch my previous comment. We'll have a better menu image soon.

perfex
12 years ago

Possibly one of the most usable themes I have seen.

Great work

newversion2
12 years ago

i like the round metacity buttons from the mockup https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/DustTheme?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=ubuntudust.jpg more.

the brown does not look bad in this one, but a color-neutral version would be even better. no color, no danger of interfering with something else on your screen.

anyway, i like dust, it has a future!

coldmast
12 years ago

@newversion2
the theme is color-adjustable (metacity, GTK AFAIK)
but the: minimize, maximize, and close buttons aren't color-aware, but it's not that difficult to use GIMP to do this yourself. But for ease of use, it would be nice to have colorless mouse-over effects.
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the one problem that I had is the theme needs an all dusty dark brown theme because when I adjusted the theme light colors to the dark brown and I could no longer read the text on the menus. (I could read through the file but it would be nice to have a dark version of this theme)

Anyways I really like the default and I always prefer cool coffee colored themes over ugly orange ones.

prytania
12 years ago

Amazing work. Well done.

Moredhas
12 years ago

I love the look of it, and I hope Ubuntu 8.10 includes this, or something like it. One slight modification I'd like to see though, is a smoother colour transition between the tool bar and the menu bar, so they look like one object, instead of two pieces of an object. That's just a personal preference though.

IstrikeAgain
12 years ago

I don't know how to port it.. could someone port it to xfwm4? please

ou3
12 years ago

Is there something I can add to the gtkrc so that the theme will also alter xfce panels to match your gnome panels?

Izo
12 years ago

Rated amazing.

Where DO you get that wallpaper from?

/izo\

dilomo
12 years ago

Nice theme ;)

Ninjitisu
12 years ago

Good job looks great

amr2205
12 years ago

Very serious, but looks nice ;)

mondzhu
12 years ago

the drop down menu is too dark, I am afraid.

rico-ambiescent
12 years ago

FYI: As of Sept 9, the dropdown menus look as they should, but the Firefox3 awesomebar dropdown is abhorrently ugly.

Try having a translucent dropdown menu in Compiz. This'll make it look good I promise ;)

aantn
12 years ago

Why? It makes the words and icons extremely easy to read and see.

eitreach
12 years ago

It's a good theme. It's solid well-made. Definetly voted good.

However, I don't think it will be a wise choice for the default theme in Intrepid. It is dark, and it is too dark. When makinga default theme for a distribution that prides itself with being for the masses - for everyone, these niche-tendencies does not work.

I believe in the lighter themes, when it comes to Ubuntu. All these dark and even more dark trends has made me worry about the final outcome. In my case, I don't see particulary well - which means that I won't be able to use this for very long periods of time.

And I'm just one person. Imagine all those other people, individuals who won't be able to use a dark theme productively. Of course, one can always change the theme into one with more contrast - but should one really need to, with Ubuntu? When it's for human beings, it's for all human beings.

cypherpunk
12 years ago

I personally find a dark theme much, much easier on the eyes. If I wanted to stare at eye scorching white there are plenty of light bulbs in my house. :)

MikeDK
12 years ago

have to say i L-O-V-E this theme, very nice, but however why not put those nice dark colors in all panels, windows etc. etc.???

Kind Regards MikeDK

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