BREAKING NEWS: NewHuman is DEAD!

August 16, 2008 in Linux | 1 comment

I caused a bit of a stir with my post decrying how ugly the NewHuman theme in the Ubuntu 8.10 alphas is. Well, it seems Mark Shuttleworth (or someone at Human Towers) agrees with me, and in the latest alpha of Intrepid, NewHuman has gone.

The old Human theme is back, even if the wrong GTK engine is applied by default (this will end up being fixed, one presumes). There have been some subtle changes to the buttons, which are very nice, and there are plans to swap the font out before the final release at the end of October. (Softpedia has the scoop.)

Now the theme is sorted out, we can think more about the nicer points of Intrepid, including:

  • a new, encrypted, ~/Private folder
  • GNOME 2.23, including the new, more flexible GDM and guest user capability
  • NetworkManager 0.7, with 3G and better PPP support
  • X.org 1.5, with better plug and play capabilities
  • The 2.6.26 kernel.

So, I think I can consider that a little victory for the sake of Ubuntu users. One for the CV methinks… :-)

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