Get Gnome Art at art.gnome.org

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!"

Well...

[infornogr]

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

No thanks.

[penguin_punk]

I don't mean to troll or flame, but Five 404's in Five minutes? No thanks - I'd expect better.

Re:No thanks.

[larry bagina]

well, 5 404s is easier to achieve than 5 9s.

themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting

[fault0]

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.

Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting

[leviramsey]

Have you tried Theme Depot [themedepot.org]?

Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting

[fault0]

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)

Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting

[leviramsey]

Well, KDE has been pretty much locked up by kde-look (which has a link on themedepot). In some way, I think it may be better to have a network of sites devoted to certain small subsets of theming and have them link to each other.

Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting

[perlyking]

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

Re:themes.org and X11 theme site fragmenting

[Otter]

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? ;-)

re: English 201

[gailwynand]

'tain't so.

Re:winner=fluxbox

[infornogr]

It's called logical quoting. It's widely used on the internet to prevent confusion when quoting commands and things. In many ways, it's superior to traditional American and British quoting. Learn to love it.

A simple query.

[Xenex]

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".

Re:A simple query.

[forsetti]

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.

KDE alternatives

[CoolVibe]

(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) :

• KDE-Look dot org [kdelook.org] - A nice theme repository. Even has GTK themes and icewm themes because KDE can use those too.
• Official KDE art site [kde.org]