


GTK2 Themes by olinux 38 comments

GTK2 Themes by rezza 134 comments
They are however much easier to work with and alter, at least for graphical people, perhaps not coders.
Theming in Linux really needs to get better and easier to do. It has an endless amount of potiental, yet only utilizes a small portion of that. - May 13 2006

GTK2 Themes by rezza 134 comments
Another person who is getting sick of round corners :) - May 13 2006

GTK2 Themes by Phrodo00 24 comments

GTK2 Themes by Phrodo00 24 comments
I dont charge my clients an amount based on finished product, I charge the entire time spent. Sure it might take 8 hours to find 30 ways you don't want a button to look like, and only 8 minutes to get it exactly how you do want it. What's the total billable hours? 8.
Creative work doesn't spring foreward; everything in life requires planning and insight. Not unlike inventing.
It took 200 attempts to create electricity. When attacked by the media, Edison replied: "I didn't waste all that time, I found 200 ways NOT to make electricity."
If one can understand the moral behind that story, well they probably understand a lot more about art and about science ;)
Point is you cant look at a finished product and sum up its parts. Because a piece is much more than the sum of its parts. - Mar 05 2006
Its funny, whenever I am confronted with some shmuck who says my work is nothing special, I recall a guy who would go around and look at people work. The work was good and bad: a mixed bag of sorts. So for the bad, he would just snicker, the good he would quickly find out what was used and recite aloud (like a recipe list) what tecniques were used in a sarcastic tone. "Oh, that's easy, a joke, nothing but a lense flaire, contrast up, colour down, add one pixel border..." he would spew and conclude that the work was poor.
I was blown away at how some people think. Here is a perfect example on how simplicity: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/29500520/
He was awarded a DD for his work and no doubt time. But I think all of us can do what he did ;) Does it take away from it? Not one bit.
Thanks for the kind words on my work. I think those that are art appreciators and those that have an eye for art, can see the great amount of effort I put into my work. Those are the people I cater too, people like yourself. The haters can go whistle for all I care ;) - Mar 05 2006
Its a shame there arent more people like yourself respite. Epathy and intelligence are in short supply it seems. You certainly have my respect :) - Mar 04 2006
Stop spreading FUD and move on with your life cause I don't think mine really should concern you. - Mar 03 2006
My main concern is not about money. My main concern is protecting my digital rights. Money is not the only motive in this world (and I wish people would look pasy monetary gain or value, we are dealing with something more intrinsic here) and doesn't move me. My main concern is about losing my digital property.
If a person cannot understand what it means to paint the Mona Lisa only to have 3 other people paint her as well but with blond hair or a purple dress, then I cannot further exemplify my stance beyond what I have already said.
I will talk with cimi86 as he has been more professional and respectful in meeting my demands.
I again thank you for being understanding (ashame there aren't more people like you in this world) as art means a great deal to me; it is a part of myself and that is why I am motivated to take the actions I am taking.
Much respect and signing off,
Lokheed - Mar 03 2006
I can see why you were confused about the GPL licence, but as per the clarification now made, there is nothing contrary to my claim that any image is bound to a GPL licence.
In fact, all images are held within my copyrights which you are in violation. The pixmap engine itself is free to use, I make to claim against that. But again, all images created by me, are held under my CC licence.
If you can show me any evidence that I have specifically attached the GPL licence to my images, then I will take them under consideration, but I feel that I have been more than consistent.
This is not a personal issue. I am merely looking out to protect my intellectual property. I appreciate the fact you like my work. There is nothing that stops you from making such themes and enjoying them yourself, but you cannot freely release them for others to copy as well. This has caused my work to spiral out of control and become parts of many other peoples themes. This is my major concern here. - Mar 02 2006
Sorry, I dont get this. Are you CC'ing your theme? Cause it's released under GPL.
If you do CC it, you better remove my arrows, my frames, my handles, my list-headers, and my sliders, cause sadly those are under my Creative Commons licence. Or you can change them. In fact, would you please remove or change them, as do are in violation of my CC licence.
Cheers. - Mar 02 2006

GTK2 Themes by Hadret 9 comments
My problem came when you treated my theme as a repository and someone that saw yours and redid it was told to pump your name, not mine. Rightfully a decent person would have given the true source. I cant make you do anything and you have shown your colours. I am just dissapointed by the lack of respect for an artist here.
I mean tit for tat, how "graphically" different is your theme from Mint??? - Feb 15 2006

KDE 3.x Splash Screens by tuxxland 5 comments

Kbfx Startmenu by nookie 43 comments
You have quick launch (one click) icons, then you have start meny items which can contain more launchers and save space (not to be burried under directories (2-4 clicks away), then you have a control panel with the variety of options.
If anything, more work on control panels to encompass more and be more user friendly and intuitive is needed, not copying Windows XP start menus. Just because MS says it is, doesnt make it so... - Jan 30 2006

Icon Sub-Sets by imaster 8 comments
Then ask permission to use them. Make sure you respect their copyrights if they have any. You cant release something that is GPL because you feel like it or have good intentions. Stealing someones art or claiming it to be your own is probably an all time low.
Putting a few sentences that you did not create them and a link to the site and a few nice words doesnt hurt either.
No one can stop you from altering images on your own PC, but its not good practice to release the stuff, especially if you have no concent at all.
Regards. - Jan 27 2006

Icon Sub-Sets by imaster 8 comments
This is of course is then not GPL since you did not create the character. Since you made no mention whatsoever that you did not make the image (here or on your site), I am assuming you are a simple thief? - Jan 26 2006

Metacity Themes by zegnus 13 comments
Its not just Windows however, there is a working port of Clearlooks for Windowsblinds that is getting rave reviews in Windows land. Its just people who think something is nice, want it too :) I am sure people will get pretty sick of Vista when it goes gold...that is when they stop those BSODs, heh :)
This is just the way of people jumping on fads and whats new. Personally I agree with you and dont think Vista is worth copying in the slightest (whats the deal with the close button being bigger than the other two?) but it doesnt bother me much. No one forces anyone to use a theme and if someone wants to spend their time making Linux look like Windows 3.1, then by all means let them ;) - Jan 10 2006

Wallpapers Gnome by ellion 6 comments
That would be classy. But great work on the bottle cap, nicely done :) - Jan 08 2006

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by BorgQueen 35 comments
Based on your arguments, women show more emotion than men. Emotion is known to cloud judgement and rational thinking. Therefore, men are more rational and less clouded by emotion when making decisions.
Important decisions don't call for emotions, they call for the ability to do what is right. A man would let that person drown because there is no more room on the boat as apposed to the woman that would haul him in causing the little vessel to capsize and kill everyone. Again, based on your argument, women are therefore weaker in making important decisions and this perhaps correlates into women not having much control in this world.
Its a patriarchal planet baby! Now shutup, look pretty, perk up your tits, and just nod your head when you are spoken to!
Ahaha, I am priceless!!!
Seriously, positive emotions uh? I gotta agree with you there. Maybe thats why I hang out with more women than men... - Dec 26 2005

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by BorgQueen 35 comments

GTK2 Themes by graig 13 comments

GTK2 Themes by graig 13 comments
Thanks. - Sep 15 2005

Various Gnome Stuff by ilishin 6 comments
Text on buttons in Firefox (buttons in Preferences window for example) are missing. The throbber is also MIA. Aside from that it works OK, but the bugs above make it unusable at this point.
The check/radio elements do not also display correctly, ending up with a awful looking mishmash of the current look and the clearlooks looks. - Sep 12 2005

Various Gnome Stuff by NikolaP 6 comments
http://emps.l-c-n.com/articles/77/firefox-widgets-yet-again - Sep 12 2005

Various Gnome Stuff by NikolaP 6 comments
I have gotten it to work but admittedly am not a coder. Here is what I have and most elements do work. Perhaps you could support Firefox trunk as I would love to get everything working harmoneously in clearlooks.
Here is the tarball:
http://members.shaw.ca/titancreations/gnome/clearlooks-elements.tar.bz2
Firefox version string:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050910 Firefox/1.6a1
Cheers - Sep 12 2005

Cliparts by mateusz93 5 comments
If you want to talk like that (IE: 'rip'), then you might as well point your finger at Ubuntu cause guess what? They 'ripped' this theme themselves. Linux is about GPL and as such, everyone is free to dump their creativity into a big pot and those that want a scoop, are free to do so. This is not about 'ripping' or C's.
It is one thing to claim something is of your own creation but another thing to simply release a piece of art for everyone to use. While I think Jakub should have been given a mention, no one 'ripped' anything here. - Sep 02 2005

GTK2 Themes by kerrle 61 comments
On the topic at hand, yes it remains to be seen if an actual theme can do justice against the screenshot. There is still alot of work to do with GTK+ and themeing, but I hope that our author accomplishes what he has set out to do.
I love seeing creative and prominent work spring to life, from a mockup or whatever. I think many things can still be achieved with quality people doing the back end.
I am looking forward to seeing just how close he can get it as it "looks" very promising, a large load to take, but lets hope he surprises us.
I still stick by my comments as I do think its gorgeous and the voting issue doesnt concern me. I would like to think that he is not here to amass votes but to get some feedback.
If it is releases as a working theme as per the screenshot, then I am sure he is going to get all the "good" votes he can get :) - Jul 30 2005

GTK2 Themes by kerrle 61 comments
I love this theme. Its simple, minimalistic, and beautiful. Rounded edges simply would not work with this theme. The y would certainly look out of place and take away from the smooth, yet defined contours.
Truly an awesome job, simply gorgeous. - Jun 06 2005

Icon Sub-Sets by epicbard 104 comments
If you want to change it you need to edit the gimp-remote.desktop file in /usr/share/applications and point the icon to whatever you like. If you remove the path and simply put something like
icon=gimp.png
Then it will pull it from the theme (providing there is a gimp.png located somewhere in the icon set). - Jun 01 2005

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zvonSully 34 comments
Having a menu option to enable "advanced settings" would have been much more ideal. This is just more Linux overkill.
You dont need 4 different levels. You need concise and easy to understand descriptions not the common ones you come across.
IE: RDPd: The Reverse Depenency Protocol Daemon.
That is the norm in Linux and is NOT a satisfactory description. What it needs is attention to the finer things, not more buttons, check boxes, radio boxes, options, features, menus, or selections.
Sorry, but this really needs to be set back to the drawing board for a complete retooling. - May 26 2005

Icon Sub-Sets by epicbard 104 comments
Anyway its fixed so its all moot at this point. - May 25 2005

Icon Sub-Sets by epicbard 104 comments

Icon Sub-Sets by epicbard 104 comments
I would suggest using mine as a template and overwriting the icons you have so far and then simply overwriting each icon you have left with your own from the GANT theme...that would be the easiest and most precise way.
Guides and tutorials are few and far apart. I had some help from people in the community who were really nice in ironning out a lot of icons that needed to be either changed or fixed.
My best advice is to use mine as a template as mentionned above. It should cover pretty much anything.
The hardest part sometimes is when an icon is "hardcoded" to a specific place and unable to be themed without altering the .desktop file...
In my opinion these should be condemned and the author of the program should fix them to point simply to a .png file (GIMP is one for example). - May 24 2005

Icon Sub-Sets by epicbard 104 comments

Icon Sub-Sets by epicbard 104 comments
If you gotta scale higher (IE: 24x24 to 48x48), it will look like crap. If you are always scaling down (IE: 48x48 to 24x24), then thats fine.
Dont waste space by adding anything under 128x128 unless you are going to do more than just open up GIMP and hit scale image because GNOME will do that for you, and at no extra charge ;)
Keep making your theme complete. The GANT set has thousands of icons, you can certainly pack everything into it.
If you need guidance feel free to take a look at my set to fill in anything you might have missed. Take a look at the 48x48 directory (unless you want to reference the gtk folder, look at the 24x24 directory for that) as it is by far the most complete.
Keep at it and great work so far. GNOME needs aesthetic boosts. - May 23 2005

Icon Sub-Sets by epicbard 104 comments
Maybe email the GIMP crew and tell them to change it in the .desktop file so it points to an icon that can be changed by the theme. - May 23 2005

Icon Sub-Sets by epicbard 104 comments
Let GNOME scale it down for you. - May 22 2005

GTK2 Themes by SoN1C 5 comments

Icon Sub-Sets by theturner 23 comments
I am going to have to go ahead and say I dont believe you created the hardrive icon from scratch.
Yes some of your icons are almost perfect copies of ones done by Jimmac but the hardrive icons dont even match the rest of the icons. They are detailed beyond the others and again, I dont believe you when you say you did them from scratch... - Apr 11 2005