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Get Gnome Art at art.gnome.org

Posted by timothy on Monday September 30, 2002 @12:28PM from the gnome-more dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Do you use GNOME? How about GTK+, Sawfish, Metacity, Nautilus, or any other components? Well, then you may want to check out art.gnome.org. A great site, though not fully finished, you can't be anything but woowed by the quality and sexiness of these various pieces of art for your GNOME component. Please no Desktop Wars, just appreciate the work these people put into making GNOME prettier than ever!"

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Hmm by redhotchil · 2002-09-30 12:32 · Score: -1, Flamebait

How can you make something that sucks as bad as Gnome any better with pretty colors? Pansies...

Oh: Please no Desktop Wars, just appreciate the work these people put into making GNOME prettier than ever!
Well... by infornogr · 2002-09-30 12:35 · Score: 3, Funny

Well... that sure was... a nice... screenshot. Let's do this again sometime. *dodges flying troll moderations*
No thanks. by penguin_punk · 2002-09-30 12:39 · Score: 1

I don't mean to troll or flame, but Five 404's in Five minutes? No thanks - I'd expect better.

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1. Re:No thanks. by larry+bagina · 2002-10-01 04:07 · Score: 1
  
  well, 5 404s is easier to achieve than 5 9s.
  
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  Do you even lift?
  These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
FIRST KDE POST by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 12:43 · Score: -1, Troll

kde > gnome
1. Re:FIRST KDE POST by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 12:47 · Score: -1, Flamebait
  
  Word. GNOME totally sucks ass these days, especially gnome2. Gnome 1.2 was the last usable version of GNOME. GMC is a lot better than Nautslowus and Konqueer.
  
  KDE 3.1 beta1 is a lot better than gnome2, except for Mozilla, which is a lot better than konquerror.
2. Re:FIRST KDE POST by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 12:48 · Score: 0
  
  Konqueror konquers your arsehole, though!
themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting by fault0 · 2002-09-30 12:50 · Score: 4, Insightful

I still miss the first version of themes.org. It seemed to have the most usable interface, and the widest support for different Window managers and desktops. Now that KDE and GNOME both have their own themes sites, everything has become fragmented. There is no universal place to get themes for X11 anymore.

Oh yeah, for me, and a lot of other people, the themes @ freshmeat don't cut it.
1. Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting by leviramsey · 2002-09-30 12:59 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Have you tried Theme Depot?
2. Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting by fault0 · 2002-09-30 13:02 · Score: 2
  
  Ah very nice. Never heard of it before. Perhaps it should be posted to slashdot :o (hey, if art.gnome is, then a more general solution should too)
3. Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 13:08 · Score: 0
  
  Always glad to be of help....
  
  --leviramsey
  
  NFL picks: make some money off your local bookie!
4. Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 13:17 · Score: 0
  
  Theme Depot is nice, and I've posted some of old E 0.16 themes on it, but a number of things need to be changed. First, Fluxbox and Blackbox don't use themes, they use styles. Second, why are there two different sections for Fluxbox and Blackbox? Their themes pretty much work with each other. Third, there are a number of sections that need to be added. First, where are the Orborous themes? Second, the site is a bit more GNOME friendly than KDE friendly.. They posted their announcement on news.gnome.org, but not dot.kde.org. They cover GNOME apps pretty well (GDM/Gnome-CD/GnomeICU/Galeon Themes/Galeon Spinners/Nautilus Emblems/Nautilus Scripts/Nautilus Themes), but the only KDE things they have are KDE styles. There isn't even any kwin themes.
5. Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting by Otter · 2002-09-30 16:11 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  I still miss the first version of themes.org. It seemed to have the most usable interface, and the widest support for different Window managers and desktops.
  Agreed.
  Now that KDE and GNOME both have their own themes sites, everything has become fragmented.
  Agreed, again. The collapse of Themes.org was hardly the most spectacular aspect of "VA has way too much money for its own good" but it was the one that affected me the most. And while they screwed around, kde-look.org took all the KDE traffic, and now the GNOME stuff has gone elsewhere.
  Oh yeah, for me, and a lot of other people, the themes @ freshmeat don't cut it.
  I will note, though, that they've picked up all the old Themes.org content. If you're looking for that old WindowMaker theme (or GTK, or E, I assume), Freshmeat is the place to go. Kudos to Scoop, and Hemos, I think, for at least rescuing the old stuff.
  I'm still using Alan Cox's desktop tile from the old "Three Questions and a Tile" column. Anyone else remember that? ;-)
  
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6. Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting by leviramsey · 2002-09-30 16:18 · Score: 1
  
  Well, KDE has been pretty much locked up by kde-look (which has a link on themedepot). In some way, I think it may be better to have a network of sites devoted to certain small subsets of theming and have them link to each other.
7. Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 17:54 · Score: 0
  
  I love palladium.
8. Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting by perlyking · 2002-09-30 23:07 · Score: 2
  
  Thanks for the link, theme depot does look good. Handy sounding nautilus scripts there too.
  
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  no sig.
GIMME CRAC by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 12:54 · Score: 0

Konqueer has been konquering arseholes since the dawn of history, j00 racist motherfucking asswh0le. GOD DAMNIT FUCK U JOO ASSBAHG I HATE JOO GIMME CRAKC OK FUCKER SHIT I LOVE U JOO IM QUEER HEH!
winner=fluxbox by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 13:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Expected replys to this article:

1. GNOME SUX0RS USE KDE
2. KDE SUX0RS USE WINXP
3. LUNIX SUX0RS USE OSX
4. OSX SUX USE BEOS
5. BEOS SUX USE AMIGA
6. AMIGA SUXORS DICK USE OS/2
7. OS/2 SUX0RS USE WINDOWS 3.1
8. WIN3.1 SUX USE DOS
9. DOS SUX USE CPM
10. CPM SUX0RS USE VAX
11. VAX SUX USE UNIX
12. UNIX SUX USE BSDI
13. BSDI SUX0RS USE OPENBSD
14. OPENBSD SUX USE NETBSD
15. NETBSD SUX USE FREEBSD
16. FREEBSD SUX0RS USE LUNIX
17. LUNIX SUX USE ENLIFHTENMENT
18. ENLIGHTENMENT SUX USE GNOME
19. GNOME SUX USE KDE
20. KDE SUX USE FLUXBOX

winnar=fluxbox
1. Re:winner=fluxbox by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 13:06 · Score: 0
  
  Very nice list, but what are "replys"?
  
  English 101
2. Re:winner=fluxbox by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 13:09 · Score: 0
  
  If you had taken English 101, then you'd know that the last question mark in your post should go before the final quote.
3. Re:winner=fluxbox by infornogr · 2002-09-30 13:23 · Score: 1
  
  It's called logical quoting. It's widely used on the internet to prevent confusion when quoting commands and things. In many ways, it's superior to traditional American and British quoting. Learn to love it.
w00p! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 13:04 · Score: 0

I've been waiting for this since sunshineinabag.co.uk went down. Mandrake was just released and I had to use the default window decoration.
English 201 by fault0 · 2002-09-30 13:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If you had taken English 201, you would have known that "you'd" is not proper English.
1. re: English 201 by gailwynand · 2002-09-30 13:59 · Score: 1
  
  'tain't so.
  
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2. Re: English 201 by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 03:57 · Score: 0
  
  Would that we all spoke perfect textbook English, no one would ever accomplish anything. :p
Desktop Wars? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 13:37 · Score: 0

"Please no Desktop Wars, just appreciate the work these people put into making GNOME prettier than ever!"

No desktop wars on slashdot? WHAAAT?!??!?! Please rank the story +5 funny. Oh wait, this isn't kuro5hin, we can't rank stories. :(
1. Re:Desktop Wars? by quinto2000 · 2002-09-30 14:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Posted by Timothy, who seems to love flamewars and uses Slashdot editorial power as one gigantic troll.
  
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  Ceci n'est pas un post
A simple query. by Xenex · 2002-09-30 16:44 · Score: 4, Insightful

Ignoring the images with pictures of G-styled feet and the word "GNOME" on them, how is a desktop image environment specific?

What's stopping me from using these images with KDE, Windows, the Mac OS, BeOS...

Nothing. Not a thing.

So, why launch a desktop environment specific art site? DE specific theme sites make sense, but DE specific background images just creates more needless "wars".
1. Re:A simple query. by forsetti · 2002-09-30 23:12 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  A desktop theme is more than just a background image -- it is also a set of icons, color scheme, fonts, etc. But most relevant to this thread, there is also config information. The format of the config information bundled with the theme is what makes each theme desktop environment specific.
  
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KDE alternatives by CoolVibe · 2002-09-30 23:02 · Score: 3, Informative
(Heck it's only karma)
Here's some places you can go to if you fancy KDE more than Gnome (hey, tastes differ. Get over it already) :
- KDE-Look dot org - A nice theme repository. Even has GTK themes and icewm themes because KDE can use those too.
- Official KDE art site
Re:KDE alternatives (watch out, AC post) by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 15:22 · Score: 0

kde-look.org

I really enjoy kde-look.org. It's one of the few sites that's devoted to a DE and gets updates regularly. The community is very active and it may even get more traffic than the dot.kde.org. The interface of the site if very good as well with sort by rank, up front previews, changelogs, search, comments per entry and everything else that you would miss from themes.org but in a very straitforward, untrusive format.

It's also been a cool place to watch Crystal/Keramik come to life.

I'm just waiting for somebody there to upload Bluecurve sources for Qt styles and GTK+ themage
sure by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 15:59 · Score: 0

desktop wallpaper
Last post! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-15 11:03 · Score: 0

Well, someone's gotta do it...