The Final Artwork of Ubuntu 9.10

it 's ok for the theme. At least the gui has been improved ( a little bit). I am a little bit shocked when seeing the last wallpaper. I thought some one holding sh!t in their hands :D

Live long ubuntu :))

man it really looks nice. its amazing how everyone complains about the look i guess thats how great ubuntu is when the only thing people can complain about is the default wallpaper. is the next LTS going to have gnome 3.0?

are they even serious... i tought they were goin to make it compete against windows 7...the theme sucks, the gdm theme sucks, and everything is like it always is in ubuntu....other than the wallpapers everything is normal ubuntu .....
im not at all impressed

I have to agree, and I can't seem to find an easy way to change it.... I'm sure I will as soon as I stop looking, but the login theme really has me annoyed at the moment.

Thanks or the share :)

Ohh and why don't you rename the site to buntupedia :P J/k . There are lots of news for other distro but hardly included here

There are more important things to fo in Ubuntu than a new wallpaper or theme.
I still can't test the web pages I made on IE, can't edit properly PSD templates, can't even open Word document without messing page breaks, paragraphs and inline pictures... All I can do is to chat with friends and write code with Geany (really nice text editor, the only one linux editor that can replace Notepad++).
Ubuntu had made a lot to make linux painless to work with it but is still far away to be main OS for people that doesn't use PCs only for chat and music.

Virtualbox with windows in it will work of course for everything. Sadly theres the VM performance hit, but hey must not be so bad considering W7 is doing this with XP.

1 : Wine can run IE mostly, enough for render and testing. This is Microsofts fault IE doesn't exist for Linux though..
IE7: http://www.wine-reviews.net/wine-reviews/applications/ie-7-on-linux-with-wine.html
IE6: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=469
IE6 or lower: http://www.wine-reviews.net/ies4linux/ies-4-linux-internet-explorer-50-55-60-on-linux.html

2: PSD belong to Adobe and as such only they have the correct specifications usuable for actual editing and not just reversed viewing. GIMP has XCF something more open and Photoshop should get the ability to import XCF or make PSD code open.
Your options here are to use gimp in its native format until you need to export to PSD, because its the compression switching that really tangles things. Things like this are why GIMP2.8 will use saving to XCF and exporting to other formats to make things more clear. The other option is to use Photoshop itself, CS2 works in Wine and with the DIB engine at the same speed it does on windows, as for other versions Wine CS3/4 support is being worked on and Adobe might make a Linux Photoshop considering they're recent get ahead of the game and be truly cross platform.

3: MS Word works fine in Wine. The issue here is exactly the same as with Adobe's PSD files. doc files aren't open and docx files are only partially open with broken ends. OpenOffice.org has the features that people need already, is portable ( I have it on my USB drive ), and is open. Other than that theres plugins for MSOffice to read OpenDocuments, and no not the Service Pack brought support from Microsoft (purposely incomplete/done wrong).

Good afternoon

All who love Ubuntu as I!
Well, on the new theme, is not good! Improved software.
But it is still very far from being good!
The icons that are next to the clock, as the network ... became SHOW! BEAUTIFUL! PERFECT! These icons gray was beautiful!
The wallpapers (images) were also good!
What needs to improve most are the icons and window borders! HOW NOT HAVE THE ICONS BE MORE REALISTIC??? TYPE KDE 4, EXAMPLE!
I know I'll be hated, but I'm telling the truth! As I said before in other comments, "The AMO Ubunto and want it to BE THE BEST!
"ALWAYS LOVE UBUNTU!!

Reginaldo

you can not be talking serious Anis... I love the new ubutnu theme, icons and wallpapers... this is what i have ever wanted, live long ubuntu, at the end ubuntu is doing great!!!!!!

Reginaldo... ubuntu is ubuntu... kubuntu is kubuntu, kde icons will NEVER feet gnome, that is a bad idea with all due respect, i love thew new humanity icon theme... keep the good work canonical... ubuntu is become famous... Thanks GOd!

@ Vladimir
Such is the way of closed standards my friend. Don't like it? Then tell Microsoft & Adobe to pull their stuff together and open their standards. Certainly isn't Ubuntu's fault.

As for everything else:
I'm not too keen on the yellow background, but I think this movement to the right side of the brain is the first step in a good direction.

I like the new look. When comparing the new Ubuntu theme to Windows 7, I think quite a few people will lean toward a glassy look, because that seems to be the "in trend" today. Overall, the icons in the new Ubuntu theme really look great and I think they are the glue that ties the desktop wallpaper with the windows. I can't wait until Ubuntu 10.04, I think the addition of Gnome 3.0 will really look great!

Thanks for keeping us updated with the latest and greatest stuff that's happening to our beloved Ubuntu.

Can't wait to try 9.10 Beta! Of course, after reading your review first!! Looking forward to it..

I didnt like this brown theme. The orange one that appeared in the Alpha 5, or even in the 6, at the moment of release, was awesome. Why did they changed??? I want that again...

Its still looks like a GUI from the 1990's era.

These actually looks very good! The folder icons are a little odd-looking, but it is still an improvement over the past icon theme, closer to tango is what ubuntu's default icon theme really needed. Something that would beat this is... actually using tango. Honestly, tangerine all the way...

"are they even serious... i tought they were goin to make it compete against windows 7
"
Mein gott, I actually saw windows 7 in action the other day. You know what? This new MS tendency to make everything BLUE is driving me sick... It is actually hard to notice anything at all on a windows 7 environment. At least ubuntu keeps some neutral colors around, and it is actually easy to change the orange into blue or green without further harm, in windows 7 everything is blue, forever! That's annoying...

"...the theme sucks, the gdm theme sucks, and "
You are entitled to your opinion. But I love it.

"everything is like it always is in ubuntu....other than the wallpapers everything is normal ubuntu ....."
You are either blind, didn't bother looking carefully or don't know past ubuntu versions beyond screen shots.

"im not at all impressed "
You may always change the theme completely to something you like (and legally as well).

"I still can't test the web pages I made on IE"
So, your solution to this is what? Force MS to make IE work on Linux?

You know what most sane devs are doing? Just ditching IE altogether and focusing on standards... IE8 has moved to standards as well. IE6 support is like a plague that must be ended.

If that does not work for you, you CAN run IE on WINE, there are tutorials for that. There's also always a virtual machine, if you are a dev you really can't do without a virtual machine, no matter what OS you are on.

"can't even open Word document without messing page breaks, paragraphs and inline pictures" This seemed to improve with OOXML and OOo 3.0 , though really, MS keeps making it every hard for some odd reason. Anyway, you may always run cross over office if what you want is MSOffice (and you can pay for the licenses...)

@ Vladamir:

1.) Test against standards, not against IE.
2.) Talk to Adobe about the PSD templates. That's not an OS issue
3.) Word isn't always consistent with itself, especially between versions

Hello i'm french, just to know if this theme is also present in the GRUB and during the usplash?? Because it's a good work i think, very nice with this africa's color!

Thanks for your answer!

No, this theme only applies to the applications and the desktop environment. The goal for Ubuntu 9.10 is to skip the GRUB and usplash phases, or to make them so short that they won't require themeing.

"There are more important things to fo in Ubuntu than a new wallpaper or theme"

All the things you listed are issues that affect linux as a whole, and here's the thing! we can't fix them, adobe and microsoft have their code locked up nice and tight, if you break into it and make it work on linux they'll happily sue the crap out of the maintainers or do as microsoft did and just threaten the hell out of them.

However there is a way of doing what you want in linux/ubuntu!

It's called virtualbox,

http://www.virtualbox.org/

and here is a guide to installing windows 7 in virtualbox:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAcUGlDOUB4&feature=related

Good luck.

Mein gott, I actually saw windows 7 in action the other day. You know what? This new MS tendency to make everything BLUE is driving me sick... It is actually hard to notice anything at all on a windows 7 environment. At least ubuntu keeps some neutral colors around, and it is actually easy to change the orange into blue or green without further harm, in windows 7 everything is blue, forever! That's annoying...
((( from all the people in the world i would have to say that 90% of them would prefer windows 7 look over ubuntu stock gnome look)))

"...the theme sucks, the gdm theme sucks, and "
You are entitled to your opinion. But I love it.
(((as you say every1 has their own opionin and my opinion is that 9.04 gdm looks better and i think many would agree with my opinion)))

"everything is like it always is in ubuntu....other than the wallpapers everything is normal ubuntu ....."
You are either blind, didn't bother looking carefully or don't know past ubuntu versions beyond screen shots.
(((i am not blind and i have been using ubuntu since 7.04 i have recently switch to linux mint its just better dont have to spend my time modding cuz its already done and with a very nice theme and better software, compare linux mint 7 and the new ubuntu theme and tell me which ones better and more elegant, professional looking, again its all opinion but i think there are more ppl on my side of this opinion)))

"im not at all impressed "
You may always change the theme completely to something you like (and legally as well).
((( i do my fave all time theme is mira it looks awesome alothough i do switch back and forth, some of the new unoffical ubuntu theme such as hanso, and turrican look better than the default one,,,why dont they just use hanso or turrican)))

This is good ..., i like this wallpaper, i like new ussplash and the new icons, and i think that they should work again becouse is not done. Some of the icons are beautiful ( help icon, sound icon, new mail, home folder, ubuntu icon ...) not all of them... (i don't like recycle bin, desktop icon, my computer...) , i think that they should meld osx grey colour and darker orange with more glass effects like windows vista taskbar... i love "new wave theme" from 9.04 it was so professional, i love that grey colour , and please i like to see variations of colours for every theme and icons and log on. i don't like to have the same log on wallpaper !!! Good work Ubuntu !!! all wallpapers is beautiful on ubuntu and os x, more than on windows.

Ok

So They Have added more wallpapers which is good and they have added music,video etc.. icons to the folders is also good but the logon screen needs to be improved alot

anon I beg to differ. Even if the FF is standard compliant, You will have an average of about 30-50% use IE (and even worse, they don't have diffrent versions of a broken web-browser).

About GIMP and PSD templates, of course it is an OS issue, the OS is a group of applications, and since it's about the only reasonable thing you can use under Ubuntu to image edit, it's Ubuntu's fault.

I think the Word is ok, esspecially 2007.

I haven't tried 9.10 but, I think it's just that old Ubuntu, with diffrent software versions number. I am not a windows fan, but I just upgraded to 7. It kind of rocks. Dual boot with ubuntu, but I do not feel like using it. It is the cleanest windows version to date.

P.s: I installed Ubuntu on my father's office computer. It's a 5 year old computer and it works ok. I just needed something simple to use and needed to get rid of viruses.

@vexorian: no windows 7 is not blue all the time. You can change the color to anything you want and any colour intensity you want.

I like it. I don't think the theme should be messed around with too much.

The only suggestion would be that the window borders and title font could be smartened up a tiny bit - less blobby and round, a little bit squarer and flatter.


But I figure, don't mess too much with something good. And definetely don't mess with the brown! (It's the hallmark of ubuntu and should be maintained)

Duncan.

The GDM has also been updated with a new theme - not just a new background.

I was new to Ubuntu and to Linux.

I may have found all, certainally many flaws in this.

The first install was abruptly halted, it needed web advice to unstick.

I installed Ubuntu over windows, keep reinstalling, messed around with options, and thought there would be no consequences. I now have an 80G drive that most utils note as 75G. Ubuntu sees it as 80G but will not let me install if over 75G. I'm working on restoring this, lack of money slows this.

Futex! reinstalled application, used C program from web, reinstalled wine, only reinstalling OS worked. Which wiped out the game I was trying to play, along with game history/data.

I have lost a flash drive to hot swapping it in Ubuntu.

The point is that this is not really ready for the uninformed to get their hands on. You should have a UPS box, Linux, like big iron UNIX is not ready for a power outage, either natural or operator induced.
Anyone from a Windows environment knows that powering down is a legit way to solve problems. This false for Linux knowledge will kill systems and programs. The futex error was power down related.

This is not to say that Windows lacks problems, and to the uninformed is safe.

My current metaphor is that Windows is like a flea bitten, diseased junkyard dog, Linux is like a fragile butterfly, and reality is like a thrown brick.
More:
I would be nice if I could easily get information from the Windows network setup wizard and use it to set up a Linux network. Or visa versa. I only got that partially up.

Cannon printer support is very bad, and someone should handle the makefile errors by posting an article that all could point to. Never completely worked, makefile could not notice that 22.2.1 was newer than 22.2. ( numbers made up, situation was not).

The wallpaper is the least of my worries ...dont like the default ...snap a personalized picture of your liking and use it as the wallpaper ! People it just a wallpaper !

I am currently using 9.04 and everything works well with my intended use ...IMHO - the best so far among the releases ..wi-fi ...dvd playback - it does everything and all for free !

I am looking forward to have a try with 9.10 - I've started using Ubuntu since 7.10 and it does gets better with every release.. Keep up the good work UBUNTU :-)

@I still can't test the web pages I made on IE

IE is a BUG not a Browser - doa proper HTML / CSS check W3C Valid with that pages and youll see they are faulthy.

please take care since the new gdm doesn't supports the old themes
this was a real problem for me now i have to revert to jaunty 'couse i didn't noticed
as far as i know this is not ubuntus fault, the new gdm out there is just like this for a year, canonical have waited long enough and now it's at least stable

OMG... i cannot believe my eyes... it's terrible! It's worse than 9.04! This... default wallpaper is... the worst wallpaper i've ever seen in my entire life!

The problem is only with the theme. The side pane in most of the windows(nautilus) have a thick border. This looks ugly. It should be changed. That's one thing I like in Mac OS. The rest ubuntu is better than Mac. The side pane in nautilus needs some organisation. Windows has done this years ago. I think mac copied that from XP. Now we need to copy it from Mac.