[Klug-general] Ubuntu Branding

[Peter Childs]

On 6 March 2010 18:54, George Prowse <george.prowse at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 18:25, James Morris wrote:
>> On Sat, March 6, 2010 16:33, Colin McCarthy wrote:
>>> On 6 March 2010 15:30, George Prowse<george.prowse at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 06/03/2010 14:56, Anoj Perera wrote:
>>>>> Looks like ubuntu is becoming more like Mac
>>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> As a Mac owner (and Ubuntu) I can tell you in no uncertain terms that
>>>> that is far from Mac
>>
>> Maybe, Anoj was not speaking literally in terms of visual style of Ubuntu,
>> but was in fact speaking in reference to the dogma?
>>
> It seems to be fashionable these days to have thin fonts and glossy,
> glassy-style colours. This was not a Mac thing, I remember it in the
> first Alphas and betas of Windows "Longhorn" in 2003-2004 and what we
> know as the OSX "niceness" came in with "Tiger" in 2005.
>
> Actually, come to think of it, I remember a "Longhorn Style" in compiz
> in 2005 - after which Apple *really* started ripping off all of Linux's
> desktop goodies
>
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Actually the issue is why do they keep changing it? If it ain't broke
don't fix it. The new brand looks like change for changes sake, which
means its point less. I'm fast heading toward going back to plain
Debian or maybe Mint as at least the Look and feel does not change
quite so often....

Peter