Blubuntu!
No, I haven’t followed suit to countless other people and changed Ubuntu’s Theme and/or Wallpaper and claimed “New Distro!”.
I am referring to Ubuntu’s default theme though.
Ubuntu has looked very “Brown-Orange” for a long time. The only really major change was from Ubuntu 5.10 “Breezy Badger” to 6.06 “Dapper Drake” (the first Ubuntu LTS release). With this change, Ubuntu dropped the more “Squared” window decorations for the smoother Window Decoration we are used to now (Listed as Human under Window Controls). With Dapper Drake came a new Icon Set as well. If you would like to see a progression of how Ubuntu has looked from 4.10 through 7.04, check out this article over on Phoronix: The Visual History of Ubuntu. If you look at that article, you will see that what you see now under Ubuntu 8.04 (and even what you will see later this month in 8.10) has changed very little since 6.06.
I really don’t mind the default Ubuntu theme too much, even though I don’t tend to live with it very long - it does “wear on me” after a while - it’s not very refreshing. I do think it’s given Ubuntu an
Written by jaysonrowe on October 7th, 2008 with no comments.
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