Fedora 8 Nodoka Theme [LWN.net]

Jonathan Roberts talks with Martin Sourada, creator of the Nodoka theme. "For a while now, Clearlooks has been the default theme in Fedora; in fact, for a long time, Clearlooks has been the default theme in a number of distros thanks to its place as Gnome's default. Aiming to give Fedora its own distinct and modern appearance is Nodoka: based on its own theme engine it's extremely fast, and when seen in combination with the rest of the artwork for Fedora 8 is beautiful."

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Fedora 8 Nodoka Theme

Posted Sep 22, 2007 2:45 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

When I first saw it, years ago, I hated it. I made quite of few jokes about its creators being legally blind. I was enjoying the overly-flashy Keramik at the time, if you can believe it. But I switched from Mandrake to RedHat 8.0 and Bluecurve kind of grew on me. I now find it very pleasant and business-like. It looks slightly dated to me today, but is still quite serviceable. I prefer clearlooks. But Bluecurve has stood the test of time pretty well. A tribute to its sensible design.

Fedora 8 Nodoka Theme

Posted Sep 22, 2007 6:41 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

BlueCurve is still installed by default (but not enabled now) in Fedora and a port for KDE 4 has also been recently made available. For the many fans of this theme, is it going to be available for the foreseeable time in the future too.

Fedora 8 Nodoka Theme

Posted Sep 22, 2007 9:07 UTC (Sat) by dweller (guest, #36831) [Link]

Exactly the same happened to me.
When I first saw it, I didn't like it; only after a couple of months I realised its elegance. Simple, clear, professional.
What I don't like, is the bluecurve icon theme, always seemed kind of amateurish to me.

Fedora 8 Nodoka Theme

Posted Sep 21, 2007 22:18 UTC (Fri) by graemes (subscriber, #3788) [Link]

I'm not often motivated to comment but I do have congratulate Martin on Nodoka. Fedora 8 looks and feels 'nice'.

Fedora 8 Nodoka Theme

Posted Sep 22, 2007 9:05 UTC (Sat) by irios (guest, #19838) [Link]

I've seen the latest Clearlooks in Gnome 2.20 in Ubuntu Gutsy's latest beta and it looks extremely nice (not when in "Human" caramel, though). I like it far better than Nodoka, but then, I have not seen Nodoka in combination with the rest of Fedora 8 artwork.

Fedora 8 Nodoka Theme

Posted Sep 22, 2007 17:06 UTC (Sat) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link]

Seems KDE is the better system as this is a blatant copy of KDE whats new

still KDE rules supreme

Fedora 8 Nodoka Theme

Posted Sep 23, 2007 2:36 UTC (Sun) by mikachu (guest, #5333) [Link]

I'd say "extremely fast" is pushing it a bit...
gtkperf figures:
bluecurve: 8.40 seconds
nodoka : 17.95 seconds

Fedora 8 Nodoka Theme

Posted Oct 3, 2007 23:57 UTC (Wed) by Tet (subscriber, #5433) [Link]

Hmmm. It looks mostly fine, apart from the forward and back buttons, which just look amateurish, and nowhere near as clear and concise as they should be.