| Brown streak?
Jan 21 2006 on content simple and safe |
I love the skyscape, and the slogan "simple and safe" relates well with Ubuntu's use of sudo and emphasis on user-friendliness.
My one criticism: the brownish streak. Granted, brown, red and orange are essentially the Ubuntu colors. However, a pale brownish streak across the middle evokes in me the impression of someone giving the sky a Dirty Sanchez. :-)
Perhaps a different color choice for the banner-bar that compliments the blue and white sky, rather than clashing with it? |
|  | | unrelated to GNOME
Jan 21 2006 on content Refiners Fire |
Another reason for the lack of good reviews, besides the busy appearance and disjointed font colors, might be the nature of the content.
Christian? Perhaps, but not of a broad appeal, given the context of the verse quote, as later parts of Malachi reveal what is to be burned in the "Refiners Fire":
" Malachi 4:1-3, “Surely the day is coming, it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire, says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them. But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes on the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things, says the Lord Almighty.”
I'm not a Christian, but even if I was I can't imagine finding an image referring to people being burned in some sort of Holocaustal fire and having their ashes trampled into the ground to be something I'd want staring me in the face when I boot up my computer. Wow. Grim to say the least. Conceivably even a visual expression of hatred (wrath?) toward differing belief systems, which is certainly what the passage seems to suggest.
How broad did you expect the appeal of that image and text to be? |
| | | Re: Icy vision
Jan 21 2006 on content 4949 |
Re:is this hell?
To me, this suggests a sunrise over an African plain during the dry season. Ubuntu is a distribution inspired by the Bantu word "ubuntu" meaning 'humanity to others' or, more literally, "I am who I am because of who we all are." Sunrise suggests beginnings and hope, and an end to a parched landscape stretched between overpriced Winblows and intimidating distros requiring true geek-hood to master .
Or perhaps 4949 just likes reds and oranges and I'm completely overinterpreting . . . take your pick. :-) |
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