The last few Alpha releases of Ubuntu 8.10 have been a bit controversial because of the dark brown theme , called NewHuman, that it was shipping by default. Good news for those of you who weren’t too fond of that theme… it’s no longer default in Alpha 4! The NewHuman theme is still included as an option, but a new one called Human-Murrine has taken over the default spot.
I downloaded and installed the new Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 4 theme so that I can see what it was like first-hand, but after installing the latest Alpha build there was a slight error with the theme. Human-Murrine is supposed to be shipping as the default theme, but for one reason or another it’s not completely enabled after setting up the operating system. It’s a known bug , but in the meantime you can manually select the Human-Murrine theme from System -> Preferences -> Appearance . After that it should look fine.
So what’s up with the new theme? It doesn’t look all that...
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