OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20039/Concept_Art_for_Fedora_10 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:50:03 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Gears http://osnews.com/thread?322694 http://osnews.com/thread?322694 I can't believe the person missed out (or did not like) Gears:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/Gears Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (VistaUser) Comments Icons are what annoy me usually http://osnews.com/thread?322697 http://osnews.com/thread?322697 One thing I've missed in Ubuntu is a set of icons sharing a unified style. It's really crappy when some icons have padding/empty space more than the others or when a bunch of icons are glossy/"modern" whilst others look like unchanged since 1999.

Dunno how the things are in Fedora, there's only some wallpapers behind the link. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SJ87) Comments Editors, pay attention! http://osnews.com/thread?322698 http://osnews.com/thread?322698 It is you're (as in you are) not your. This isn't an 8th grade paper here. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dniesen2) Comments RE: Editors, pay attention! http://osnews.com/thread?322699 http://osnews.com/thread?322699 you're right, it isn't - it's an ungraded paper on a free website. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (spikeb) Comments erm well http://osnews.com/thread?322702 http://osnews.com/thread?322702 hopefully someone will have a bit more taste and not accept any of these... Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hyperdaz) Comments Horrible http://osnews.com/thread?322715 http://osnews.com/thread?322715 What a horrible, horrible set of themes. My eyes hurt just looking at them.

I *really* wish they won't be accepted. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vvsiz) Comments artwork http://osnews.com/thread?322718 http://osnews.com/thread?322718 To be honest, Fedora's artwork annoys me,but I did like Fedora 7 artwork. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (happycamper) Comments Seriously... http://osnews.com/thread?322730 http://osnews.com/thread?322730 the Fedora developers couldn't possibly accept any of these concepts. Hooking up a robotic hand holding a pencil to a stereo through an interface that turns music into robotic hand movements and playing Scandinavian death metal would yield better art. The only one even worth looking at (and it is actually pretty good) is the following:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/InvinXble

Too bad the original article doesn't even feature this one, in fact it seems to focus on the worst ones in that list. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aperh) Comments Ubuntu != beautiful http://osnews.com/thread?322732 http://osnews.com/thread?322732 Fedora always puts tegether a gorgeous and consistent theme for each release. I especially love the Solar system theme proposed here. I can't, however, believe some people here are even mentioning Ubuntu when talking about artful theming in a Linux distribution. Forgive me for the imminent flame war but Ubuntu is ugly. Sorry fanboys, but it is. Furthermore, it hasn't changed much since its inaugural release. Oh wait, it did create the Ubuntulooks engine which it quickly set to orange and brown, just like the inaugural release, and left it in place for every release since. Wow, how innovating. When Edgy was set to debut, an entirely new theme was designed. We all waited with bated breath hoping against hope that the days of splattered pumpkin were over...no such luck. At the last minute it was "decided" that the same old human theme would remain. Then 7.04 and 7.10 came and went with no change to the default theme. Whatever happend to that new theme? Then again, our hopes were raised when it was announced that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS would sport a new theme..finally. Then, as before, it was decided at the last minute to retain the human theme yet again (so as not to confuse Enterprise users or some such ridiculous reasoning.) What's wrong with the Ubuntu developers? Obviously someone over there has a love affair with garish color schemes. I know Ubuntu has sort of created a calling card for itself by sticking with this horrid default theme as opposed to more soothing colors (flying in the face of years of usability studies conducted by Apple and others) but at some point things must change. At the very least, give us a couple of choices with a default installation!! We now have such fantastic innovations as Gnome compositing, Avant Window navigator, dynamic wallpapers, and pages upon pages of gorgeous GTK themes and icon themes courtesy of the always innovating Linux user base (see gnome-look.org for many examples.) I hope a change of guard occurs before too long and someone with some marketing sense as well as a sense of aesthetics is installed as an influential Ubuntu developer. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cmost) Comments RE: Ubuntu != beautiful http://osnews.com/thread?322733 http://osnews.com/thread?322733 Please stop using words like innovation when talking about themes. Themes can be creative or pretty, but not innovative. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (saucerful) Comments RE: Ubuntu != beautiful http://osnews.com/thread?322734 http://osnews.com/thread?322734 To be honest, altough I dislike Ubuntu itself a little, I love there colour scheme. I find it the most comfortable scheme there is. I actually set dwm to use the exact same colours.
My girlfriend who does like Ubuntu loves it also, but she loathes the standard theme of Fedora. People just have different tastes.

(btw Ubuntu's colours go well with our curtains :-) ) Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (righard) Comments RE: Editors, pay attention! http://osnews.com/thread?322738 http://osnews.com/thread?322738 Are you the grammar nazi here? Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ruel24) Comments Just artwork.... http://osnews.com/thread?322740 http://osnews.com/thread?322740 Are we talking about an OS here? My god, those are just artwork, themes. Nothing that makes the OS better.

Take Windows and slap one of those background pics on it and it will still be Windows. Same goes for Linux. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (truckweb) Comments fedora core 4 http://osnews.com/thread?322745 http://osnews.com/thread?322745 fedora core 4 was nice. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zenulator) Comments Since when does wallpaper equal theme?! http://osnews.com/thread?322754 http://osnews.com/thread?322754 Maybe it's just my interpretation of what a 'theme' is, but to me that means the icons, window decorations, etc... Not just a random wallpaper. That's the least important part of a theme to me, which always gets replaced by something more pleasing to my eyes anyways. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (XemonerdX) Comments RE[2]: Editors, pay attention! http://osnews.com/thread?322757 http://osnews.com/thread?322757 It's got nothing to do with grammar, at least get that right when poking people with your Nazi-bat. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Googol) Comments I like the solar theme http://osnews.com/thread?322761 http://osnews.com/thread?322761 The other ones aren't that pretty, but i like the continuous artwork innovation in fedora, something that other distros lack. And if u don't like it, you can always change the default theme ;) Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jokinin) Comments RE[2]: Ubuntu != beautiful http://osnews.com/thread?322816 http://osnews.com/thread?322816 Themes and most visual expressions can be innovative.
(Though it will probably be quite subtle.)

That being said: more or less no themes are actually innovative.

Still I think it's a tad pessimistic to say that they can't be innovative. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TLZ_) Comments These are only concepts http://osnews.com/thread?322821 http://osnews.com/thread?322821 Keep in mind that these are only concepts so far, so there may not be anything more than a rough sketch of a wallpaper so far. Later on these sketches/concept drawings will be fleshed out into wallpapers, splash screens, and basically every piece of art you can think of. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (computerishcat) Comments Comment by theuserbl http://osnews.com/thread?322848 http://osnews.com/thread?322848 Why points OSNews to the side
http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/07/11/early-fedora-10-artwork/
and not to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes

The fedoraproject-side is the side, where all themes are linked and hosted.
Things like
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/InvinXble
which I really like, are not publied on the linuxloop-side. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (theuserbl) Comments RE: Ubuntu != beautiful http://osnews.com/thread?322867 http://osnews.com/thread?322867 Just dont be lazy and get your ass on gnome-look. That comment is irrelevant. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zelrik) Comments RE: Editors, pay attention! http://osnews.com/thread?322884 http://osnews.com/thread?322884
It is you're (as in you are) not your. This isn't an 8th grade paper here.


I'm thinking that you'll probably want to avoid Moulineuf's posts. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BallmerKnowsBest) Comments neon http://osnews.com/thread?322956 http://osnews.com/thread?322956 The information highway symbolized by the image with extreme shutter setting :-) Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments RE[2]: Ubuntu != beautiful http://osnews.com/thread?323125 http://osnews.com/thread?323125 Personally, I've created many new themes that I've posted on Gnome-look for others to partake. Of course, these days I've given up on Ubuntu entirely and have returned to my Debian roots. :-) Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cmost) Comments