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by KeitIG 2981 days ago
Great release, with great features, and still a really (really) bad UI. The new theme has so many inconsistencies and bad decisions made. And I find it really cringy for an LTS release to distribute this new theme as the default one.

I hoped hard the communitheme would be the official theme of this release, but no.

Examples:

- The active directory effect in Nautilus's sidebar makes me thing there were two sidebars with different purpose [1]

- Changing the background of every other rows in the settings look weird. The fact they are splitting settings by group do not help. I thought it was a theme glitch, and found out it was an actual feature [2]

I understand why people are interested in more serious theme (arc-theme) or even other Ubuntu-based distros (elementary...).

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dbxn7TrV4AItn2f.jpg

[2] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbxoSISVwAAn1fV.jpg

1 comments

Personally I have no idea why they rolled these theme styles for nautilus while they have been worked on Communitheme [1], which does not have tab-like menu [2]. However I'd like to note even in adwaita (and many other styles) there is design inconsistency between nautilus and gnome-tweak-tool. Sadly, Ubuntu dev team and community have not released any stable version Communitheme yet, so they were too late to bring new, consistent theme to 18.04.

[1]: https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-communitheme

[2]: https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-community-theme/