the progress bar color doesn't fit into the theme

I do agree that it doesn't really fit.. I will mark it as confirmed and leave it up to the devs as to what they want to do.

I also think the progress bar color should be changed as above.

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Maybe this should be in a new bug report...

Second thing is the window "close" button. It is always "bright" like the color of the progress bar.

It suggests that the button is somehow active.

Note that when out of focus, all of the window buttons dim. This is a good thing.

The focused window have buttons that appear ready to use. This too is a good thing. But the window close button is colored distinctly from the others. Why draw attention to the button at this time?

It seems better to make those buttons the same, except for when mouse over. At mouse over then make the color change to a brighter setting. This makes the potential choice more visible to the user. This would be a good thing.

again, another comment about color palette...

the default light theme appears to be "ambiance", yet the login screen is "radiance"... it seems more seemless to make both gdm login and default theme to be the same.

This bug was fixed in the package light-themes - 0.1.5.6

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light-themes (0.1.5.6) lucid; urgency=low

  * Bringing things back inline with the original design

light-themes (0.1.5.5) lucid; urgency=low

  [ James Schriver ]
  * Ambiance/Radiance: Deprecate pixmap scrollbars now drawn via the murrine engine
   - Visual refresh of buttons, notebook, comboboxentry for theme consistency
   - Add border_shade and colors
   - Add additional murrine options through_shades, shadow_shades, etc.
   - Sync scale with visual scrollbar changes for theme consistency
   - Fix blurry BG[INSENSITIVE] text/menubar text
   - Fix GtkScrollbar::min-slider-length = 36 (LP: #533537).
   - Adjust global border_shades for consistent shading with combobox
  * Ambiance: Fix text on memenu (LP: #532843).
   - Clean up panel; Fix (LP: #533081) panel buttons with no contrast
   - Fix statusbar (LP: #532964).
   - Fix dark text CPU applet on panel (LP: #532385).
   - Fix system monitor artifacts (LP: #533271).
   - Fix Gedit and Gimp menu separators (LP: #532323).
  * Radiance: Fix indistinguishable notebook tabs (LP: #532340).
   - Fix statusbar (LP: #532693).
  * Ambiance/Radiance: Fix metacity frame_style_maximized close and minimize unfocused prelight (LP: #532690).

  [ Kenneth Wimer ]
  * Ambiance/Radiance: set trough border only under scrollbar
  * Ambiance/Radiance: set automnemonics to 1 (lp: #532927)
  * Setting focus_color
 -- Kenneth Wimer <email address hidden> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:42:16 +0000