Light is a bad idea

Posted Mar 11, 2010 4:21 UTC (Thu) by christian.convey (guest, #39159)
Parent article: Ubuntu changing its look

The light area of the background (center-top) keeps on drawing my eyes to the menu bar just above it. That is, it seems like it's trying to tell me that something important is there, and my eyes obey.

The problem is, there's NOT anything important about that region of the screen.

The design might be interesting, but I think it scores low on usability.