Seems like Ubuntu is finally about to dump the primarily brown theme it has been using for the last ... well, since its first release. On the equally new brand page you can find a screenshot for each variant of the theme (dark and bright) as well as the new logo. Personally, I think the new look is really nice, judging from the screenshots I saw (Putting it on my netbook would kind of defeat the purpose of that devices ;-)). It appears to me far more mature and slightly more "professional" than the previous "Human" theme.
What I don't like, or at least haven't come around liking, is the new window-button order (the buttons you see in the upper left corner of each window in these screenshots): For me, the action I use the most on any given window is the "close" action. And this is just easiest to reach when positioned in one of the outer corners. Perhaps has a patent on having the close button in the top right corner and it being red ... who knows.
If you want to know more without installing it, Ars Technica has some nice hands-on article.
Now I just have to find some not-used notebook with an Intel chip that I could put this onto :-/
[via arstechnica.com]
