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Get Gnome Art at art.gnome.org

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Well... by infornogr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well... that sure was... a nice... screenshot. Let's do this again sometime. *dodges flying troll moderations*

  2. themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting by fault0 · · 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 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Have you tried Theme Depot?

    2. Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting by fault0 · · 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 Otter · · 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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    4. Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting by perlyking · · Score: 2

      Thanks for the link, theme depot does look good. Handy sounding nautilus scripts there too.

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  3. A simple query. by Xenex · · 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 · · 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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  4. KDE alternatives by CoolVibe · · 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) :