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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."
Can't wait to try out my new windoze lookalike desktop.
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Terrorists deserve to eat poopie. Lot's of poopie. So much poopie that they die. They should be forced to eat dog poopie and cat poopie. They should have to eat their own poopie. They should eat my poopie. Taco's poopie. Timothy's poopie. Yes, even Katz's poopie, the most vile, stinking substance on the face of the planet.
This really is a great site.
Over the last few months while they've been "static" I must admit that, on occasion, i've been annoyed at nothing seemingly happening.
Knowing (personally) some of the maintainers at irc.themes.org and that they're probably as annoyed as I was helped me look at things in a different perspective though.
These guys work hard and deserve every praise they get, and no critisism (critique is ok)... they don't get paid for this remember. I know at least one person responsible at irc.themes.org was considering resigning from his position because of lack of progress... just glad he didn't. I'm just glad that things _are_ happening. Kudos to the themes.org team.
i would appreciate it if anyone here would allow me to borrow there daughter (or any 10 to 12 yearold girl they happen to have lying around). you see, i am a pedofile and am currently in much need of polishing my nob on the pert little mouth of a tiny child. i promise i will not damage her much (just a little whipping, beating, her ass and pussy might get a little stretched), she will be returned to you in almost-new condition, just a might bit sticky around her lips and tween her legs.
-- the real j'raxis (posting anonymously to preserve his precious reputation)
Who'd like to see a two-way between Helen Hunt and Claire Danes?
These guys worked hard? How hard? Like an old piece of squirrel poopie? Or kangaroo poopie? Here is what I suggest:
Terrorists deserve to eat poopie. Lot's of poopie. So much poopie that they die. They should be forced to eat dog poopie and cat poopie. They should have to eat their own poopie. They should eat my poopie. Taco's poopie. Timothy's poopie. Yes, even Katz's poopie, the most vile, stinking substance on the face of the planet.
Tasty.
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.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
check out the poll on alpha.themes.org
its interesting to see which people vote for....
The middle eastern ones? The CIA? The Zionists?
Henry Kissinger?
you know lineks doesnt have solitary?
Too bad everyone can't enjoy the brilliant "Aqua" interface of my neato OS X box.
/. and now that i have a dual PowerPC 800 box with a gig of RAM, it's almost peppy.
Display PDF sure does make the fonts res beautifully when i am reading all the goatse* posts on
I can't wait till 10.1 so that it will have a gui to help me close my ports... and burn disks!...
(actually i like os x and am i just in a pissy mood, i hope people realize i am trying to be funny here.)
I'm sure they needed a lil' slashdotting to test their server too, right? Have some compassion!
what mp3 sharing program that you guys use?
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
I just heard some fucking sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen fucking King was found fucking dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more fucking details. I'm sure fucking everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his fucking work, there's no denying his contributions to popular fucking culture. Truly an American fucking icon
I just heard some motherfucking sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen motherfucking King was found motherfucking dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more motherfucking details. I'm sure motherfucking everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his motherfucking work, there's no denying his contributions to popular motherfucking culture. Truly an American motherfucking icon
1) Given the horror stories that have cropped up over the past year and a half regarding how VA treats its volunteers, people would be crazy to help this particular project.
2) The whole idea of "volunteering" for a company thats out to make a profit off your work is beyond common sense anyway.
My $0.02,
Rand
all your skyscraper are belong to us
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I've had the same theme for years...black background, white text.
Before that it was black background, orange text.
Long time ago it was green background, whitish green text.
And my first real theme was white background, blue lines, grey text.
Writers imply. Readers infer.
Are we supposed to golf clap for that drivel? Who the hell is moderating around here. This guy is like Mr. Cheese.
Sung to the tune of the Village People song "Macho Man". Italicized parentetical statements should be spoken in between sung parts of the chorus "Goatse" should be pronounced "goatsay" or "goatseh". Ready? Here we go.
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You can see his picture on goatse dot c-x,
But who can say they've met him in the flesh?
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I want to meet the goatse man!
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(What's the biggest object you ever fit in there?)
Where are you goatse man?!?!
(four-to-the-three-to-the-two-to-the-one-and...
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How many people allow themes in the workplace? Personally, it is my pet peeve to have to work on somebody's machine that has changed everything around so damned much that you don't know where to begin.
Especially on M$, I shudder at the thought of having to look at the screens after the user has changed everything around so much that it is just barely functional.
Click on the Internet Explorer icon. No, I know you have an Internet Explorer icon. It's a blue 'E'. You changed it. Okay, click on the one that says 'Internet Explorer' under it. Oh You changed that too. Why? You didn't like what they called it. Sorry Stan. What, your name's Bob? I didn't like what they called you, so I'm calling you Stan. Shave off your moustache Stan. I Don't like it...
Sarcasm is my last bastion of sanity in the world of user customization.
Angry White Guy
--and while you're at it, change the tie too...
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
Here's wishing everyone the best of luck. BTW, I like the new "peachy" color scheme:-)
THE GOOD HUMOR MAN CAN ONLY BE PUSHED SO FAR
Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 2F18
Sorry, not funny. Try again some other time.
I don't know about #1, but I got to disagree with you on #2.
Most of the work opensource developers will put in will directly influence whether or not the companies that produce linux distros will make a profit. If linux sucks and doesn't improve, then they don't make money. If it rocks and it's getting better, then these companies will make more money (because more people will buy their distro + tech support).
People volunteer for companies that are out to make profits all the time. If I volunteer, it's not because it's for a non-profit cause, but that it's for a good cause.
F-bacher
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
The problem with themes.org is that it is TOO good. Why should that be a problem? It's so good that nobody else is even trying; there's no point. Unfortunately, this makes it a single point of failure (I noticed this when attempting to find mozilla themes; when themes.org was down, it was tough to find anything worth downloading.)
Ok, so that's not a REAL problem, but I have been doing a lot more thinking about redundancy this week. Other people have mentioned this 'problem' about sourceforge, too. We need to make sure that there's not a single point of failure, and that these great sites and the themes/projects are kept going and accessible no matter what bizarre circumstances might happen.
To pull down your pants and give me some booty.
Allot of the most popular sites are ran by the target audience. Slashdot gets its content from user submissions, the moderation is done by the users, the posts are the largest part of slashdot.
Some of my favorite sites are all user driver, blues news, betanews, slashdot, planetsites, freshmeat, themes, infoanarchy, kuro5hin, netctarine and tribalwar. And most of the news sites I read get their submissions and comments from users.
The only problem I had when Themes went down, its about the only place I know for icewm themes and theme screenshots.
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am i the only one that thinks the layout and color of the old site look better than the one at alpha.themes.org?
themes.org is cool.. i've been getting stuff from them even though they are officially not open or whatever, but it just seems to me the other site design worked better and was easier on the eyes..
count me in for helpign thsee guys out. once i sober up a bit.
alright. for those w/o a sense of humor. my point is, even a drunk oss fan is an oss fan, and wants to help progess htings.
http://alpha.themes.org
:)
wasn't that hard to find was it?
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Is there a place for collections of icons and bitmaps for use in applications and themes? I couldn't find any sets of icons on themes.org.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
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 ;-).
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
Mod Everyone in this topic up!
Whatareya doin? Fuckin Sleeping?
Jesus Fucking Christ, what do we pay you for?
How the hell is this flamebait? You cocksucker moderators should get on the fucking ball here! That is a legitimate topic, relevant, and you panzy assed fucks moderate it down?
In the next version of slashcode, they should put in the option of tracking down the moderator, knocking him to the ground and breaking his back in such a manner that when the cops find the asshole moderator who did it, they think he died trying to suck his own dick!
Karma points for everyone in this fucking thread!
AC
This is for my hooligans in Brooklyn!
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Why can't they just die ?
:(
They nearly died before, but sadly - they started kickin' again.
Please die, for the good of al linus ppl.
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Sir, you're either Mike Bouma or simply full of shit.
Breaking News: Osama Bin Ladin IS GAY!
Hemos, age 6, was found fucking dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more fucking details. I'm sure fucking everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you don't fucking enjoy his story posts, such as THIS ONE THAT FUCKING BLOWS!
Solaris saved you in your workplace, and yet you treated it like garbage.
And that's what you are, the King of Refuse. So bow down to SlashDot if you want. Bow to it. Bow to the King of Slime, the King of Filth, the King of putrescence!
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wankers, who couldn't code a line of C, yet stare at pretty terminals and backgrounds and think they're leet
then they even post screenshots (!) of their desktop on the web, like we don't have enugh crap already
Why is this -1, flamebait ?
that I am not a war criminal.
You see, many linux geeks are terribly overweight. Installing the winner theme makes them throw up all the time, so the reach normal weight in a few months. This is much better than any weight watchers stuff and - most important - it works.
So, the winner theme is a so called "health theme" or "digital bulemia". IBM doesn't only bring you good computers, they also keep you in shape.
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/. readers than any other news system before. By posting stories that have no real relevance or interest to the existing community, /. hopes to increase its already massive contigent of trolls by at least 150%.
/. readers by encouraging them to post ASCII artworks in the forums. "I especially like the Goatse.cx ASCII art images with my name in the anus."
/.'s support languages beyond english. "Naturally," he finished, "you must SUCK before you can BLOW."
Slashdot launched a new service today. It's called "Systematic Unvieling of Crapy Knowledge Stream", or SUCKS for short. Slashdot SUCKS version 1.0 is intended to bore more of
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda states that "Slashdot SUCKS is the most obvious next step. The things that our staff can do with SUCKS technology are incredible. We can turn mature individuals to 6 year olds with boring news posts that bring out the trolls deep within. It's really quite exciting." He went on further to state how Slashdot SUCKS would help bring out art skills in
When asked what the next evolution in Slashdot SUCKS would be, Rob commented briefly on Slashdot Bi-Lingual Opressive Waste Stream", or BLOWS for short. Although he would not give many details, CmdrTaco informed us that Slashdot BLOWS would deliver even more "garbage" to the whole world, by increasing
Why bother.
This really is a great site.
Over the last few months while they've been "static" I must admit that, on occasion, i've been annoyed at nothing seemingly happening.
Knowing (personally) some of the maintainers at irc.themes.org and that they're probably as annoyed as I was helped me look at things in a different perspective though.
These guys work hard and deserve every praise they get, and no critisism (critique is ok)... they don't get paid for this remember. I know at least one person responsible at irc.themes.org was considering resigning from his position because of lack of progress... just glad he didn't. I'm just glad that things _are_ happening. Kudos to the themes.org team.
Is people like you who SUCK at spelling
http://alpha.themes.org
:)
wasn't that hard to find was it?
I just did an all-nighter and I'm feeling slap-happy.
mod this up! please!
probably pretty far up into the goatse.cx anus
It's a bit curious that you mention sound. The content in themes.org is very graphics-centric. Lately I've been thinking why it is so.
Maybe the problem is software. Sure there are lots of GNU/Linux audio software, but none of it has really reached the same level of sophistication and integration as Gimp.
What they really need are volunteer lawyers; to defend them from the likes of Apple, MS, and everyone else who claims to 'own' themes...
I guess people didnt stop making themes just
because themes.org where down... anyone know som
other sites, especially looking for kde2 themes.
and running a submission que would be fun, mine would always get in
blackbox themes & screenshots
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"don't smoke, don't drink, don't fuck
at least i can fucking think"
Minor Threat
Themes.org was better 2 years ago what happened. Also miss the adult themes.
Your art is great. I just grabbed a few for my desktop. What design software do you use?
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
http://www.google.com/search?q=css
sans-serif fonts and no colors on a themes site. idiots.
Most of these creators of the themes.org come off as rude and having an elitist attitude. The times ive been on irc.openprojects.net, ive been disgusted at how people are treated that dont "belong" to certain channels. This is the kind of thing that happens in irc servers all over the place, but it should not be happening on openprojects.net. The problem with it is, osdn is run by these same people. Its not a matter of "just leave the channel if you dont like how you are treated", because it goes further than that. It reaches into responses to comments and emails. These people do an excellent job maintaining osdn, but they need to learn how to deal with people. Being a "computer geek" (call it what you will) is no excuse for being an asshole.