New Themes.org Almost Ready; Needs A Little Help

Daelin writes: "Themes.org is almost ready to re-open! They need people to write submission guidelines and then maintain the item queue for item types that people want covered, however. This is a chance for some people to help out a hub which connects several different communities."

Comments

Collaboration At Its Best

[N8F8]

Themes.Org has to be one of the best examples to hand out to Linux newbies of the platform's advantages at its best. So many people with varying skill levels contributing their time and efforts to let people pick from hundreds of desktop configurations and appearances.
Just think about it.

Each Windowing environment has programmers writing open spec API's to allow people to customize the desktop.

Then the people who write the software to create and install the Themes. Not to mention graphics editing software and sound editing software.

Gui, Graphics and sound icon designers working on theme components.

Individuals and teams putting the peieces together to create hundreds of themes with a consistant look and feel.

All the user has to do if he/she wants to completely change the look of their desktop or make the computer an extension of their own personality is go to Themes.Org and click the download button.

Awesome. Nothing comparable comes to mind.

one of the great examples of oss community

[erik_fredricks]

I've been frequenting the site for ages, and in fact, a theme I found there became my impetus for switching to WindowMaker and never looking back. The old site was a great resource, a novel but ridiculously useful idea, and for me, it became one heck of a time-sink and full-time hobby. Nothing this valuable exists for the commercial OS'es, and I wouldn't be surprised if it converted a bunch of folks to Linux/BSD.

Here's wishing everyone the best of luck. BTW, I like the new "peachy" color scheme:-)

It would be cool if...

[Ed Avis]

Is there some way to automatically generate RPMs or dpkgs for window manager themes? Linux distributions could include a few hundred popular themes and a way to switch between them: that might get more new users addicted to the whole theming and eyecandy thing. Hmm, maybe not such a good idea ;-).