Comment 13 for bug 934270

During a session at UDS, mpt said people would laugh at Ubuntu One if they pushed this app with its current look. Now we're replacing a GTK-native app which looked alright (and consistent) with a very crappy-looking non-native-looking one using the branding colors that have been universally replaced (unless the tans of old-school Ubuntu have been brought back with Ubuntu One?).

Not to mention that it doesn't follow any sort of a set of HIG that I can see. The buttons, spinboxes, links, tabs, and everything else looks out of place.

Keep in mind this is an *Ubuntu-branded* app made by *Ubuntu* developers on the *Ubuntu platform*, and it doesn't fit in at all.

What the heck.

If we want to go for consistency and cross-platformness, what we really need to do is make it look absolutely stellar on Ubuntu while fitting in with the platform and the HIG, then push that look out to the other platforms. It'd be much better for the Ubuntu brand as a whole than showing everyone this currently-crappy-looking one. Seriously. Take a page out of Apple's book for this one; make it awesome on your mother platform then port it for the others while keeping the look and feel to help draw people in.

I'm afraid that, in its current state, the Qt-based interface really will be something that gets laughed at unless it undergoes a complete redesign making it look really slick.