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The Creative Penguin: The GNOME Art Duo Speak

Posted by timothy on from the undervalued dept.

uninet writes "After spending time with Torsten Rahn and Everaldo Coelho earlier this year, we continue our Creative Penguin series in a discussion with Tuomas "Tigert" Kuosmanen and Jakub "Jimmac" Steiner of Ximian. If you've ever admired the beautiful artwork of GNOME, these are the gentlemen responsible for it. How did they get involved? Why should you be interested in desktop artwork? They discuss all of this and more with Open for Business' Timothy R. Butler. Read the full interview here."

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  1. No pictures? by hoegh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How can you have an article about artwork and not having any pictures?

    1. Re:No pictures? by da2 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Easy, leave out all of the tags

  2. Re:"beautiful"? by ChangeOnInstall · · Score: 3, Informative

    Umm ... I use GNOME at home and work, and enjoy it very much, but it's a far cry from beautiful.

    Take a look at this site and this one. As far as GUI artwork goes, it's about the best I've ever seen. The OSX stuff may give it a run for its money, but the Microsoft folks can't offer anything close (obviously this is just my dumb opinion). Keep in mind that the truly "good" artwork hasn't really shown up until Gnome 2.0, and I think quite a bit of it is only packaged with 2.2 and beyond.

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    What has *science* done?!? -- Dr. Weird (ATHF)
  3. Re:"beautiful"? by ChangeOnInstall · · Score: 3, Informative

    Forgot to add one more link: Gnome 2.2 screenshots showing the artwork "in action".

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    What has *science* done?!? -- Dr. Weird (ATHF)
  4. /. Icon? by misfit13b · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does that mean that we're updating the slashdot Gnome topic icon? ;^)

  5. Beautful icons by jeorgen · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I have started using Gnome/Redhat recently, and I am seriously impressed by the icons. I teach user interface design, emphasizing silouette and clean lines with regards to icons. And the icons on my Gnome desktop are gorgeous (I normally use Windows though I believe Macintosh 6.05 and thereabouts was the bees knees user interface wise).

    This good UI design seems to permeate more areas of the Gnome world. Yesterday I discovered the moleskine editor. It has the same graphical style and user interface simplicíty. Well worth a look. Gorgeous.

    /jeorgen

  6. Re:"beautiful"? by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'd have to disagree. Take a look at some of these screenshots:

    this
    or this

    and of course my own desktop

    There are a load more here.

    Default gnome can have an ugly widget, but 2.2 goes quite a long way to addressing that with the metathemes system. And really, I think with only a smidgen of effort you can make it look better than anything else out there, including MacOS, which I find just to look too "fat" and stripey. GNOME2 feels clean in comparison.