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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."

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  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?

  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 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.

  4. 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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