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Good karma: an in-depth review of Ubuntu 9.10 (arstechnica.com)
19 points by soundsop on Nov 19, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/11/good-karm...

I think this is the only piece of software where effort has specifically spent on making the interface more brown. Is this what Mark Shuttleworth called 'a designer's touch'?


Ubuntu has adopted a not-widely-used colour (probably there are reasons for /that/) and sticks to it consistently (to the dismay of many :). As an effect, many people (who have seen Ubuntu) now associate orange/brown with it. It's simple brand recognition.

(Personally I don't like their choice, but in a world saturated with bluish/lightgrayish/greenish/sunny spring morning colours, it's a brown cow)


You do know it's not exactly hard to change the looks of the interface, if the brown tones don't make you happy.

Mine is grey-ish/blue-ish most of the time. I spent a lot of time with it looking like OpenSolaris and Fedora too.


Yes, I do. Are you aware people will judge the attention to detail to the rest of the OS by how it looks? And that people don't like unnecessary work?




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