It seems you missed the fact that the first part of the post was my appraisal of the rebranding and only the last two paragraphs of the post per se were about my thoughts on gtk. I don’t really follow your comment. The ubuntu design team and the path of gtk development are two completely separate issues in my mind - and they were treated that way in my post.

I’m not sure how you come up with the whole “forsaken for rebranding” point. It doesn’t make any sense and wasn’t my aim.

As far as proper critical discussion goes, it’s subjective of course. It sounds as though you’re from the camp that thinks critical appraisal of something can’t take place unless someone’s got a better idea to present (maybe I’m wrong?) Frankly I think that’s a stupid idea that stifles all sorts of critical discussion in Libre software land.

I still stand by my opinions on the progress of design in Gnome-land.

Sorry that you don’t think you’ll subscribe, but I don’t have subscribers in mind when I write a post. That’s probably why my subscriber list is so low. Oh well.

Thanks for reading anyway.

I dont think I will subscribe to your blog now

Probably stepped into an aftermath, but I would like to say that I feel the design is quite good. I could be wrong about this, but think for one second about the whole theme and philosophy of the word ‘ubuntu’ of which the meaning is ‘available and open to others’. This is a term of African origin and I feel for one that the font of the logo really reflects the feel of that theme. It is clean, but also quite true to it’s roots and also I feel that’s where the real ‘light’ is. Dunno about you, but I can almost see the sunrise in a savannah in the background with a bit of Lion King music in my head!

Perhaps the term was taken slightly too literally…

Prior to the release of the “light themes” I had thought that the old Ubuntu look was being unfairly derided.

Post light themes - I thought they were joking.
What a shame they did not select something decent like the beautiful “New Wave”.

About those window buttons… It looks to me like someone just slid the mac aqua window buttons over on top of the aqua menu button.

@Lubomir - You’re far from the only one who likes the new identity. Quite a few people like it. It’s a step forward. You can go ahead an educate me as well, don’t waste your time asking someone else to. I know what critical discussion is not - asking for a link to be removed instead of asking ‘why don’t you like the way Gnome development is heading??’.

@Thomas - Wow. A single link crapped on a whole event. You give me way too much credit. I think I will actually amend the post to clarify what it is I’m doing. I will however not remove or abstain from posting links that accompany non-positive ideas. To ask me to remove a link because I don’t have anything positive to say is simply ridiculous. I’m not sure how the community will ever progress without being able to handle criticism warranted or otherwise with some degree of aplomb. It’s design we’re talking about, if you want to take everything personally, that’s up to you.

*You* might not like where the look is going, but most folks seem to. Randomly choosing someone else’s blog for trashing in the name of “sparking conversation” is pretty low.

I’d say you do at least owe Máirín an apology, and you should really respect her wishes and remove the link.