Comment 3 for bug 61176

I would like to add my support to this proposal, though it may be more appropriate to put forward as a design specification for Edgy +1 rather than a bug for Edgy.

I feel that a visually consistant 'presentation' across the board is important for the following reasons, not necessarily in order of importance,

1. Ubuntu would be more visually appealing, and 'polished', thus creating a really good impression to new user, and first impressions do count.

2. A more consistent use of visual 'metaphors', particularly with the main 'suite' of applications that Ubuntu ships with, would greatly smooth the learning process for users migrating from other platforms.

3. Promote the 'unified' desktop principle as outlined by the Tango Project. This would benefit those users who run a mix of GNOME/GTK & KDE/QT based applications. There would be the added benefit of simplifying the creation of Iconsets.

4. The current release of Gnome 2.16, now ships with an Icon set that is both visually consistent with Tango, as do some applications ie The Gimp. Further to this work is well underway to creating an iconset for Open Office, as such Tango is perhaps the most 'complete' iconset currently available, aside from the previous GNOME/Hicolour 'package'.

5. In keeping with the distinct branding that both Ubuntu & Kubuntu have, it would only be necessary to 'recolour' icons ie folders, rather than (continue to) create unique 'Ubuntu' Iconsets.

On that last point I realise that this has been done with the various Human sets, however, (with all due respect), they don't fit well with Tango.

Regards

David Underwood.