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August 27th, 2010, 07:20 GMT · By Marius Nestor

The New Wallpapers and Theme of Ubuntu 10.10

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Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha with the new Ambiance theme and wallpaper

Canonical uploaded today the new wallpapers and default theme for the up-coming Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system. Seventeen new beautiful wallpapers and a lightweight and eye-candy theme will please every existing and future Ubuntu 10.10 user!

The new wallpapers in the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) release are, in the order of appearance: default Ubuntu 10.10 wallpaper, Aeg by Tauno Erik, Blue box number 2 by orb9220, Blue by ElSlunko, Bubbles by JanneM, Crocosmia by sirpecangum, Feather by quinn.anya, Fern by aalex04, Life by Paco Espinoza, Liquid glass by matthileo, Mirada Perduda by Marxicoli, Morning II by Tadas N., Primer Amanecer 2010 by letoloke, Ropey Photo by Bob Farrell, Serenity Enchanted by sirpecangum, Smile by quinn.anya, Spiral by fiЯas, and Waterchain by Poje Mario.

Below is the refreshed Ambiance theme with the new default wallpaper...

Congrats to the authors of these beautiful photographs!

On October 10th, Ubuntu 10.10 will become the 13th release of the Ubuntu operating system.

Among some of the interesting features that will be present in Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), we can mention the upcoming GNOME 2.32 desktop environment, which brings lots and lots of improvements in many areas, such as Nautilus, Evolution, Empathy, Totem, or Rhythmbox.

Ubuntu 10.10 will be powered by Linux kernel 2.6.35. Applications such as Oracle's OpenOffice.org 3.2 office suite, Mozilla's Firefox 3.6 web browser, Transmission 2 torrent downloader, Pidgin 2.7 instant messenger, Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 e-mail client and The GIMP 2.6.10 image editor (some available only from the default software repositories) will also be present in the final version.

Don't forget to visit our website next Thursday (September 2nd) for a detailed report on the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Beta release, where we will unveil more of Maverick's new features!

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READER COMMENTS:

Comment #1 by: Seth Kriticos on 27 Aug 2010, 12:04 UTC	reply to this comment
I don't know, but somehow the color mixture of the new default wallpaper gives shivers. For me it seems that orange and violet absolutely don't blend well.

Comment #1.1 by: Marius Nestor on 27 Aug 2010, 12:49 GMT

I agree! And after a few hours with that wallpaper in front of your eyes, you will see orange spots everywhere :))

Comment #1.2 by: William on 27 Aug 2010, 21:30 GMT

They need to quit with the orange and the window buttons look worse.

Comment #2 by: Mo on 27 Aug 2010, 12:46 UTC	reply to this comment
Wow the improvements to the themes are really nice!

Comment #2.1 by: Anonymous on 01 Sep 2010, 05:29 GMT

Dark theme looks bad before. Today it looks like s***.

Comment #3 by: Indian_Art on 27 Aug 2010, 13:11 UTC	reply to this comment
Nice wallpapers. I noticed 10.10.10 will have Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 e-mail client. That's interesting. I'm happy with that change.

Comment #3.1 by: Marius Nestor on 27 Aug 2010, 13:37 GMT

Yes, I am using Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.2 right now on my Ubuntu 10.10 machine, and I can say that it's a big difference from 3.0.x versions!

Comment #3.2 by: walrus on 28 Aug 2010, 13:40 GMT

What on earth is 10.10.10?
The wallpaper's a joke I take it. They won't really ship with it. No way.

Comment #4 by: Random on 27 Aug 2010, 22:03 UTC	reply to this comment
You miss the new font :)

Comment #5 by: bubba on 27 Aug 2010, 23:53 UTC	reply to this comment
I will keep using 10.04 and 9.10 wallpapers. These are not an improvement. All subjective anyway.

Comment #6 by: DTDS on 29 Aug 2010, 01:10 UTC	reply to this comment
Who cares???!!! Too much ubuntu 'news', most of which isn't news at all. Seriously, who cares...????

Comment #6.1 by: Gyanos422 on 30 Aug 2010, 11:47 GMT

For some of us it is big news. If you dont care then why are you reading the article and commenting?

Comment #7 by: agus on 29 Aug 2010, 08:01 UTC	reply to this comment
i like ubuntu,....... maybe one time i'll be expert to use ubuntu

Comment #8 by: Keshav on 29 Aug 2010, 12:45 UTC	reply to this comment
Interface is better than windows7

Comment #8.1 by: sosolino on 30 Aug 2010, 12:27 GMT

know any other better jokes?

Comment #9 by: lsd1250 on 30 Aug 2010, 16:18 UTC	reply to this comment
thanks

Comment #10 by: ff on 03 Sep 2010, 13:26 UTC	reply to this comment
the default looks like crap. If I recommend 10.10 to anyone I will be embarrassed on first boot.

Comment #10.1 by: birdman_36 on 17 Sep 2010, 02:06 GMT

Wow, you complain a lot for something that's absolutely FREE

Comment #11 by: volapyk on 09 Sep 2010, 20:55 UTC

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Well, I've seen worse Ubuntu defaults, but that doesn't really say much. The choice of colors in Ubuntu has been bad design decision from the very beginning. This still shows in the newer themes and artwork. From long time use orange (and brown) have become a part of the Ubuntu brand (the look that sets Ubuntu apart and makes the brand unique), hence developers still cling on to this concept way to much. This ends up holding back real progress and change. Developers need to dump the orange and start anew.

I know the brown/orange problably hails from the whole African thing with the Ubuntu name and philosophi, but it really is time for a major change. Ubuntu needs to become much more pleasing to the eye for the majority. It's time to reinvent the overall design concept.

Comment #12 by: big don on 22 Sep 2010, 19:35 UTC	reply to this comment
ugly as sin

Comment #13 by: china user on 16 Oct 2010, 16:54 UTC	reply to this comment
the look's very uncomfortable..

Comment #14 by: sanjeev on 03 Jun 2011, 05:03 UTC	reply to this comment
i having this wallpaper already. give some new one these are default wallpaper of ubuntu 10.10

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