The Creative Penguin: The GNOME Art Duo Speak

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."

Re:"beautiful"?

[ChangeOnInstall]

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 [musichall.cz] and this one [gimp.org]. 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.

Re:"beautiful"?

[ChangeOnInstall]

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

Re:Why theme everything separately?

[Anonymous Coward]

In Gnome 2.2 you don't have Nautilus themes. You got icon-themes that change gtk stock icons and nautilus icons.

KDE and Gnome is working on a standard together, freedesktop.org, and the goal is to create a standard for things like themes.