Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Sep 2007 22:13 UTC, submitted by Jonathan Roberts
Fedora Core "For a while now, Clearlooks has been the default theme in Fedora; in fact, for a long time, Clearlooks has been the default theme in a number of distros thanks to its place as Gnome's default. Aiming to give Fedora its own distinct and modern appearance is Nodoka: based on its own theme engine it's extremely fast, and when seen in combination with the rest of the artwork for Fedora 8 is beautiful. Read on for an interview with Martin Sourada and some screenshots of the theme."
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Well done distros
by SlackerJack on Fri 21st Sep 2007 22:31 UTC
SlackerJack
Member since:
2005-11-12

Thanks for using all the loads of time you have making themes that already exsist. The gnome themes people may as well just not do any themes.

All that work on the slight variation of clearlooks, totally pointless to me but I guess thats free software for you.

RE: Well done distros
by SEJeff on Fri 21st Sep 2007 22:46 in reply to "Well done distros"
SEJeff Member since:
2005-11-05

Read the article. It is a variation on murrine, not clearlooks.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Murrine+GTK2+Cairo+Engine?co...

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RE[2]: Well done distros
by SlackerJack on Fri 21st Sep 2007 22:53 in reply to "RE: Well done distros"
SlackerJack Member since:
2005-11-12

Thats my point, it looks almost identical to clearlooks.

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RE: Well done distros
by apoclypse on Fri 21st Sep 2007 23:19 in reply to "Well done distros"
apoclypse Member since:
2007-02-17

It does look very much like plain old Murrine, doesn't it. Well at least its a nice shade blue. I think I'll stick with the brown thank you.

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RE: Well done distros
by jaylaa on Sat 22nd Sep 2007 10:52 in reply to "Well done distros"
jaylaa Member since:
2006-01-17

Thanks for using all the loads of time you have making themes that already exsist. The gnome themes people may as well just not do any themes.

All that work on the slight variation of clearlooks, totally pointless to me but I guess thats free software for you.


So I suppose this physics undergrad who spent his free time making this theme could have instead been fixing the suspension problems on your laptop, or getting 3D support for some esoteric graphics card?

Why do people assume that if open source devs weren't "wasting" time doing things like this then they'd be doing whatever the complainer wants them to be working on? If he hadn't spent time making this theme the only thing that would be different now is Fedora would still use Clearlooks and he would have gotten a slightly higher grade on that problem set he should have been doing at the time.

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