http://disqus.com/by/jnak/enWed, 29 Jul 2009 09:28:01 -0000http://jakedth.tumblr.com/post/150832944#comment-13531699<p>well i guess i was being way too serious. but icons are not more important than the wallpaper imho. the ubuntu wallpaper is more distinctive than the tangerine icon theme that comes as default, which can be changed too btw. it is easy to install the tangerine icon theme on other linux distro's, and i'm going to make a guess that there are more users of other distros of linux with the tangerine icon theme than with the ubuntu wallpaper. it's not that strong a point, i admit, but it is a point.</p>jnakWed, 29 Jul 2009 09:28:01 -0000http://jakedth.tumblr.com/post/150832944#comment-13495584<p> i would say the wallpaper makes the distro more than the theme or icons. the theme and icons. if you have the theme or icons of ubuntu on another distro, you don't think hey it's ubuntu, you just think, hey it's gnome. but the desktop is distinctly ubuntu. this argument is disingenous, like saying, hey, firefox is mostly white, therefore ubuntu's white.</p><p>if you look at the desktop when it boots up, it's going to be mostly brown.</p><p>the background is much more important than you're giving credit, and at best you're exaggerating, at worst lying.</p>jnakWed, 29 Jul 2009 00:04:27 -0000