@bwat47 I totally agree with your statement; Ubuntu MATE doesn’t have to be ugly, but that’s not really what I was on about.
The development team for Ubuntu MATE, the small group of people who actively maintain this distribution already have enough on their hands with the custom software necessary to distinguish it from a vanilla copy of Ubuntu. What I am really saying, the entire time is that the dev team should concentrate on the backend; getting everything working behind the scenes which facilitate system functionality.
If someone wants to supply a decent theme to supersede Ambiance-MATE or suggest replacements for supplied themes, that would be fine. Just remember: every megabyte counts and the default set of themes, I believe had been optimized to take as little space as necessary to provide a selection. You want more themes, you install them.
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