That's correct: the Ambiance theme looks like that (it has white, pink and orange keys); I suppose that the person, that designed the theme based it on the desktop background.
This said, it is not normal that you got the Classic Onboard theme on startup, unless it was set that way in your user preferences. On a vanilla Ubuntu system, Onboard should appear with the nightshade theme. @marmuta (the main Onboard coder) The package from the PPA installs a system defaults file where the theme is set to Nightshade. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to onboard in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210568 Title: Onboard does not take desktop theme Status in “onboard” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am using the current ppa:onboard/ppa PPA version of onboard on an up-to-date Saucy system with the standard Unity desktop (Lenovo Thinkpad Twist convertible with touch screen, Intel Core i7 with on- chip GPU). Onboard does not take the desktop theme. The keys are beige with black text, and not as the menus dark gray with white text. The problem only happens on the Unity desktop. On the login screen of LightDM one can turn on onboard via the accessibility menu and there onboard always shows up correctly. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/onboard/+bug/1210568/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp