I guess we can’t complain since they don’t have to invest the time and money they have to provide us with such a great distro.. but boy I sure would love to see them improve the interface. A lot of freelancers have submitted great looking designs, any of which I would be pleased to have at this point, so even if the developers are not designers, the designs have already been submitted. Almost seems they are actively trying not to improve the interface..

*ubuntu has never been famous for its artwork.
Neither wallpaper, nor grub splash or any thing in between.

Mepis, suse, pclinux are much nicer

sad but true.

At least kubuntu intrepid comes with a fairly nice desktop:)

They are… well… Ubuntu-brown…

Who cares what wallpaper will be coming with this distribution. I will be changing it anyway to the way I like. That is the great thing about Linux, you can make it look however you like.

But in the grand scheme of things, is the wallpaper that important? It is not as if it cannot be replaced with whatever you choose. I think this should be one of the lowest priority items. The operating system is stable and on-time. I hope most see this as a little more important than throwing in a ton of wallpapers.

I agree about the interface improvements, and they are working on it. But, if you want bling and cuteness, get a Mac. I use Ubuntu because it Just Works (TM).

I don’t get it. Why is everyone complaining about how Ubuntu looks? If you don’t like the damn wallpaper, change it!!! To me, it is more important that Ubuntu make its OS work, and there are a lot of things that then still need to improve. Regardless of what Ibex looks like, it is the best release I have ever used, and its still a beta. So quit your b*tching and go change the wallpaper.

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I like the way the keep the subtle reference to Debian with the spiral shapes in many of those. The Hardy background did the same with the spiral feather shapes.

Folks are just gonna switch the wallpaper to some naked chick anyways. Why is this an issue.

Now, if you REALLY want to talk usability, there’s tons of other crap wrong with the interface that could get tweaked. EG: when you open a shortcut to change it’s icon, you don’t see a button labeled “Change Icon”. Instead, you have to fiddle around and finally figure out that if you click on the icon itself, it’s actually a button that lets you change the icon.

Likewise, some of the dropdown menus are non-intuitive, either not sorted alphabetically, or jumping all over the place (EG: jumping to the middle of the list instead of the top).

There’s just other nit-picky things wrong with the UI that can be confusing and/or annoying. I find these things much more bothersome than what color scheme they use or what wallpaper they choose.

The theme and wallpaper are easily corrected. Crappy usability that’s built-into the apps themselves is harder to change (or work around).