Comments on: Ubuntu Hardy Heron Theme Work Begins

By: Editor

Editor — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:23:11 +0000

Malou,

I don’t think this theme was ever made official and put into a separate download… fortunately the upcoming theme from Hardy Heron though is a dark theme and will look somewhat like this.

By: Malou

Malou — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:08:18 +0000

I love this theme. Where can i download it?

By: Nix

Nix — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:56:54 +0000

Excellent themes Great work.

By: riko

riko — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:59:10 +0000

great themes, i like it.

By: Frost

Frost — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:18:17 +0000

If it works can you please mail me that theme to my email?
Very nice theme, would like to use it

By: umattu

umattu — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:22:19 +0000

One great thing about ubuntu (and most any linux distro) is that if you don’t like the default theme, you can make it look ANY way you like with very little work.

By: Phil R.

Phil R. — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:37:31 +0000

Dude, When can i get my desktop to look like that. Is this for Gnome 3? I love it. I’m using KDE on my daily partition because it is easier to customize that gnome. but i really want the look.

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:31:25 +0000

James thanks for the link, there are some interesting mockups there.

I think I’m the only looser in the group that still likes the way Human looks… they did a pretty great job already… some of these newer ones, while flashy look a bit flatter.

I guess either way we are going to get a nicer looking Ubuntu come 8.10.

By: James Savage

James Savage — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:18:57 +0000

Just to clarify this, that is not the theme, it is A theme out of many. Many people are reporting this as a chosen theme. It may still win out but as of now, it is just one of many. I don’t feel that this shows the best screens (all taken from the wiki) so I included the direct link to the ubuntu wiki.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/BasicIdeals

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:34:31 +0000

Hacemossupagina, that’s a pretty slick UI. Nice job!

By: Hacemossupagina.com

Hacemossupagina.com — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:35:05 +0000

Hi im the creator the ubuntu studio Theme, now. have a new theme for ubuntu Hardy Haron. for any Phone……….

http://www.hacemossupagina.com/blog2/?p=436

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:57:48 +0000

Guys thanks for following up, I think a lot of folks are really excited to see what you do with the Ubuntu theme. The release is sneaking up faster and faster… 2 more months? I imagine the theme is finalized now?

I haven’t tried out Beta 4 yet, but I’ll try and dig up a few screenshots from it to see how it’s coming.

By: Ru

Ru — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:28:04 +0000

I can offer one feature that could be added done by our team. the task bar at bottom of gnome that you can add icon links, system tray, clock so on. some people like to use auto hide and others like it to show all time. the method in how this is switched is to long form we believe. Simply by adding a icon that you click once and it returns the taskbar into auto hide mode. click again to make it stay open all time. This method makes it fast and easy to switch from autohide to a task bar all time there. This feature could be choosable under the ‘add to panel’

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:21:07 +0000

We Currently do not have our work publish to the internet. But once done with the modifications will be posting a mock up link page.

Best Regards

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:41:12 +0000

Sam/Ru,
Do you have a link to a desktop screenshot or theme that you think would be a step in the right direction? You said the new theme isn’t “over the top enough”, I’m just curious what kind of improvement you would have wanted to see?

By: ru

ru — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:32:05 +0000

I think the human looks terrible compared to what is out there. Human theme could be compared to windows 95 to xp. very behind. When asking a multitude of people at different office locations. That all tend to agree totally on this mater. So I really don’t think its just My Opinion but a majority.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:28:11 +0000

Ithink human theme was plain jane and good for old timers or someone with very little imagination. But this new them is very nice but not over the top enough. that said I hope u can keep the theme and alter the colors..say to same layout but black or blue and so forth. also would be nice to have everthing at the bottom and not top and bottom. Linux distro’s have had a long time need and coming for a over all visual refresh..lets hope they go all out on it because visual hardly ever changes for long periods of time. if they stick to more plain boring look as in past. U can expect only the few that use it now to be using it and not the masses.

Best of luck on refresh visual:)

By: Mano

Mano — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:31:25 +0000

In my opinion the theme is ugly :s I hope they will do a 360° turn around..

By: Sam Barrow

Sam Barrow — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:40:21 +0000

I like the human theme better, I think it looks much more professional and clean.

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:52:02 +0000

Mohammed, that is one of the nicest looking OS X conversions I’ve seen in a long time.

Thanks for documenting it all here:
http://mopedia.blogspot.com/2007/12/pimp-my-ubuntu.html

By: Mohammed

Mohammed — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:27:09 +0000

It definitely looks better than what we have now but I still prefer something like this:
http://mopedia.blogspot.com/

By: manny

manny — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:04:51 +0000

yea they are from the developer of Avant window navigator (awn) and affinity.

he really is not shy at making linux look good.

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:32:00 +0000

Damn, manny both those links are really beautiful mockups… I like that first one, very polished.

By: manny

manny — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:03:25 +0000

yea it’s e17 theme but has most of the colors the ubuntu devs are looking for hardy.

and it’s plain clean, simple and attractive.

i suggest the new theme has to be attractive enough that even MAC users would like to make their macs look like ubuntu (ok maybe am dreaming :p).

right now the coolest ubuntu is ubuntu studio, without that theme anyone would rarely download it.

the ubuntu studio theme looks so good people are porting it to their cel phones
http://www.hacemossupagina.com/blog2/?p=15

if we want 2008 to be the year of linux it has to become more attractive. “Looks sell by themselves”.

something as simple as a theme could give a huge promotion to ubuntu and make our work to converting friends to linux easier.

something like this
http://www.silverwingsonline.com/ubuntu1.jpg

http://bp1.blogger.com/_Xie1ydrCav4/RcnoynbQdxI/AAAAAAAAAA8/RiCmewlMRCQ/s1600-h/affinity-start-composited.jpg

maybe we are afraid of making linux (specially ubuntu) look “too good” ?