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Interview with a Gnome artist, William Szilveszter

Posted by Hemos on from the cool-stuff dept.

Pascal Klein writes "William Szilveszter, a Gnome desktop artist has recently released an extensive suite of goodies for our Gnome desktops, including a GTK theme, Firefox and Thunderbird themes, an extensive icon set and 2 media player skins, as well as a high in demand wallpaper. His Graphic Suite, on Gnome-Look.org has become the most highly rated contribution to the Gnome-Look.org community in just under 5 days, and has scored over 4900 downloads to date.

Wombat has interviewed him in light of his recent release... You can find the interview here."

20 comments

  1. Not Graphic Suite by the_rev_matt · · Score: 4, Informative

    Graphite Suite. I'm fairly sure the artist would appreciate you getting the name of his work right.

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    1. Re:Not Graphic Suite by Randseed · · Score: 2, Funny
      What do you think this is? A reputable news source?

      :)

    2. Re:Not Graphic Suite by Linus+Torvaalds · · Score: 2, Funny

      What do you think the editors are? Some kind of mythical elf-like beings with the magical ability to "read" and "write"?

  2. Gnome desktop artist by Curmudgeonlyoldbloke · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doesn't he find it difficult to reach the top of the desk?

    1. Re:Gnome desktop artist by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1

      No. 'Tis but three palm's breadth from the garden a-growin'.

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  3. Not that special by youknowmewell · · Score: 4, Informative

    Graphite suite isn't all that special. I was looking at it last night and was turned off by yet another white theme. Geez, how many different white themes do we need? Not only that, but it uses the Clearlooks engine, and although I like and use the Clearlooks engine myself, it certainly means that his theme isn't all that special. Thank the Clearlooks devs for the engine. And that wallpaper isn't his work either, it's Stanley 'artgerm' Lau's work. The icon theme looks like a modified default GNOME icon theme by the looks of the screenshots.

    I'd say that the only thing that the Graphite Suite brings is a full desktop theme rather than just a GTK or Metacity theme. Other than that, it's over-hyped by the article.

    1. Re:Not that special by sneakers563 · · Score: 1

      No kidding - it looks exactly like every other Gnome theme released in the last 3 years... except it's grey!

    2. Re:Not that special by Silkejr · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The guy's putting together stuff for the benefit of all of us, and all you can do is criticize? Who cares if he borrowed from the work of other people. The whole idea of open source is building upon the work of one's peers.

    3. Re:Not that special by thsths · · Score: 1

      > Graphite suite isn't all that special.

      To me it looks just a little bit less ugly than most other Gnome configuration. Neither visually stunning nor really functional. SuSE at least has a default theme that looks reasonably well together with KDE applications in the plastik style.

    4. Re:Not that special by Knights+who+say+'INT · · Score: 1

      Plastik is awful, gaudy, overdesigned, overstated.

      This is minimal, subtle, soft, sophisticated.

      (I'm an OS X zealot looking at the first Beautiful X11-based GUI I've ever seen)

  4. Oooh! Boobies!! by ArmorFiend · · Score: 1

    Q: why do you think its the most downloaded ever?
    A: BoObIeS!!@1

  5. Re:Oooh! Boobies!! by Reorax · · Score: 1

    Hey, you're right! That "log out" icon does look vaguely like a breast!

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  6. he should stick to graphics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Never been a big fan of the crippled Blackbox, Fluxbox, XFCE4, etc."

    These window managers were designed not to have all the features (and bloat) of the DEs, so "crippled" isn't really the right word.

    "I use Gnome (came from KDE) because its light weight, fast..."

    GNOME is lightweight and fast??? I hate hearing the views of non technical people about technical issues...

  7. Better, but not up to KDE by rocketman768 · · Score: 1

    I remember the first time I got introduced to linux with RedHat linux 6.1 from Best Buy. Redhat's default (at least since then) has been Gnome. The first time I tried KDE instead, I was instantly hooked and never installed linux with Gnome again. I don't know what it is, but KDE has definitely got the upper edge. At least now I'm seeing the potential that Gnome has, although Gnome comes configured pretty weird...two application/task bars? Gnome still seems more "different" than it seems useful. Artwork is the first thing that will attract people to the G, but there has to be substance there too.

    1. Re:Better, but not up to KDE by rekrutacja · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I know, it's just a flamewar as usual, but for one accusation i must (as a Gnome user) reply.
      Two taskbars are really usefull. You have very similar solution in os-x: one taskbar for apps and system, and second for all current work.
      This makes Gnome desktop very intuitive, much more than KDE which sticks to Windows look'n'feel with everything hidden in folding menus.
      There are other issues - some apps are better in KDE, and some are better in Gnome. But i see most of them improving in both enviroments, so now it's not a big problem.

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  8. Jimmac is the real author... by kosmosik · · Score: 1

    jimmac [http://jimmac.musichall.cz/%5D made the icons - he was making it for a long time.. Oh. And hi also produced windows decoration that you see. It is called Industrial (as theme) and it is owned by Novell...

    I don't like cheating - be it slashdot post - but it also puts the mentioned (in shity as usual) Slashdot post.

  9. As an OS X zealot, I must admit by Knights+who+say+'INT · · Score: 1

    This is great GUI visual design. Absolutely fabulous.

  10. Not that FUNCTIONAL! by ArmorFiend · · Score: 1

    I've actually installed all his crab, and it doesn't even seem to work right.

    The gnome theme highlights white text with white background on menu mouseover. Thanks!

    The firefox theme I had to switch out because it was clearly corrupting memory - suddenly all my nav buttons started to look like the "back" button.

    I couldn't get the gnome icon theme to install at all.

    Nothing to see here, folks.