Troseph

Ubuntu needs beauty work, they admit, it will be the focus of the next release. However, I would like to salute Mark S.’s poor taste in design with WillWill’s GDM Concept. Sadly and in all likelihood it will not work it’s way into Intrepid. Every one of Will’s works has been amazing, yet all get shot down by those who prefer to use every tone of poop brown or puke orange they can document off the floor of a nursery or dance club.

So here it is, the artwork I am wishing would be considered for Ubuntu’s next release. The artwork that inspires Elementary’s upcoming release.

I have been dedicating some of my free time to this project, and it is looking like something real now. The current plan is to base it off Ubuntu, I think Ubuntu Ultimate might be the best option, but we’re keeping our minds open as far as the OS goes. I am working hard to get a .deb installer built for the theme and default settings.

Some highlights/goals of the project:

• clean, useable, and simple UI
• new package manager in the works — dash

Here are some screenshots:

GDM

Default Desktop:

I was wondering why my site was taking FOREVER to load… Looks like something between Comcast and level3.net (AT&T) is really bad.. Here is the trace:

troy@troy-desktop:~$ sudo traceroute troy-watson.com
traceroute to troy-watson.com (69.89.31.181), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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4  COMCAST-IP.car1.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.79.104.110)  1051.037 ms * *
5  * * *
6  * ae-14-51.car4.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.68.105.5)  970.128 ms  829.879 ms
7  INTEGRA-TEL.car4.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.71.156.30)  840.020 ms  498.107 ms  388.462 ms
8  tg9-4.cr01.sttlwatw.integra.net (209.63.114.133)  84.859 ms  74.570 ms  77.684 ms
9  tg13-1.cr01.ptleorte.integra.net (209.63.114.98)  77.398 ms  95.024 ms  137.277 ms
10  tg13-4.cr02.ptleorte.integra.net (209.63.114.142)  895.688 ms  902.977 ms  905.247 ms
11  tg13-1.cr02.boisidpz.integra.net (209.63.114.18)  907.638 ms  910.046 ms  912.363 ms
12  tg13-4.cr01.boisidpz.integra.net (209.63.114.13)  917.004 ms  919.320 ms  921.591 ms
13  tg13-1.cr01.slkcutxd.integra.net (209.63.114.30)  923.985 ms  926.359 ms  928.767 ms
14  tg9-1.ar10.slkcutxd.integra.net (209.63.114.254)  930.246 ms  931.733 ms  933.158 ms
15  gw0-cust-bluehost-com.slkc.eli.net (70.97.59.22)  934.537 ms  74.875 ms  230.638 ms
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1051.037 ms!?!?!? Come on! This is like dialup! 15Mb/s my ass.