Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

["Ryan D. Egeland" <ryan@egeland.net>]

Quick one as I couldn't find elsewhere.  Libranet, ubuntu, knoppix, etc. 
all have very nice login prompts, default color for "ls," 
high-resolution console bootup, etc.  I agree these should not be part 
of a default install, but is there a simple meta-package or something 
that could customize the system scripts to make things a bit "prettier?"

Bob