Hi everyone, ive been involved with the fedora design team for quite some time now for my initiation project i designed the banner that marked the fedora 16 release :P (really proud about that) anyway, ive been using xfce the entire journey ive had with linux. I love xfce and i think it is an amazing DE. However there is one thing i havent been able to get over, being a person who loves creativity and design. Xfce has some nice styles shipped with it by default but for alot of people i know it just doesnt "cut it". Ive recently joined up with a group of people in the FOSS world called The Shimmer Project.
http://shimmerproject.org/about/
Many of the shimmer project core members and leader are infact ubuntu users and were once part of the ubuntu design team but they have broken off "We, as a collective are not part of any particular project. Our individuals, however, are members of various communities". They did this and now develop xfce themes for any user wishing to use them based on this mentality "make Open Source beautiful". I too shared those ideals so i joined them. My suggestion is to make the fedora xfce spin more attractive, just as attractive as it is usable and functional. I use their greybird theme myself and it is simple amazing.
Being FOSS its open to any distro any person who wishes to use it i would like to suggest we possibly shit One or all of The Shimmer Projects xfce themes with the spin.
Ya wanna rephrase that last part?
John Deal
On 01/27/2012 09:30 PM, Zachary Snyder wrote:
Hi everyone, ive been involved with the fedora design team for quite some time now for my initiation project i designed the banner that marked the fedora 16 release :P (really proud about that) anyway, ive been using xfce the entire journey ive had with linux. I love xfce and i think it is an amazing DE. However there is one thing i havent been able to get over, being a person who loves creativity and design. Xfce has some nice styles shipped with it by default but for alot of people i know it just doesnt "cut it". Ive recently joined up with a group of people in the FOSS world called The Shimmer Project.
http://shimmerproject.org/about/
Many of the shimmer project core members and leader are infact ubuntu users and were once part of the ubuntu design team but they have broken off "We, as a collective are not part of any particular project. Our individuals, however, are members of various communities". They did this and now develop xfce themes for any user wishing to use them based on this mentality "make Open Source beautiful". I too shared those ideals so i joined them. My suggestion is to make the fedora xfce spin more attractive, just as attractive as it is usable and functional. I use their greybird theme myself and it is simple amazing.
Being FOSS its open to any distro any person who wishes to use it i would like to suggest we possibly shit One or all of The Shimmer Projects xfce themes with the spin.
xfce mailing list xfce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
Yes im sorry i didnt mean to send that i hit send by mistake while trying to save as draft. I didnt mean for that.
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:54 PM, John Deal jdeal@columbuscounsel.comwrote:
Ya wanna rephrase that last part?
John Deal
On 01/27/2012 09:30 PM, Zachary Snyder wrote:
Hi everyone, ive been involved with the fedora design team for quite some time now for my initiation project i designed the banner that marked the fedora 16 release :P (really proud about that) anyway, ive been using xfce the entire journey ive had with linux. I love xfce and i think it is an amazing DE. However there is one thing i havent been able to get over, being a person who loves creativity and design. Xfce has some nice styles shipped with it by default but for alot of people i know it just doesnt "cut it". Ive recently joined up with a group of people in the FOSS world called The Shimmer Project.
http://shimmerproject.org/about/
Many of the shimmer project core members and leader are infact ubuntu users and were once part of the ubuntu design team but they have broken off "We, as a collective are not part of any particular project. Our individuals, however, are members of various communities". They did this and now develop xfce themes for any user wishing to use them based on this mentality "make Open Source beautiful". I too shared those ideals so i joined them. My suggestion is to make the fedora xfce spin more attractive, just as attractive as it is usable and functional. I use their greybird theme myself and it is simple amazing.
Being FOSS its open to any distro any person who wishes to use it i would like to suggest we possibly shit One or all of The Shimmer Projects xfce themes with the spin.
xfce mailing listxfce@lists.fedoraproject.orghttps://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
xfce mailing list xfce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
Well first we need the themes as rpm in fedora, before we think about adding them to the spin. So this should be the first place to start working.
Johannes On Jan 28, 2012 11:01 PM, "Zachary Snyder" sadin@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Yes im sorry i didnt mean to send that i hit send by mistake while trying to save as draft. I didnt mean for that.
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:54 PM, John Deal jdeal@columbuscounsel.comwrote:
Ya wanna rephrase that last part?
John Deal
On 01/27/2012 09:30 PM, Zachary Snyder wrote:
Hi everyone, ive been involved with the fedora design team for quite some time now for my initiation project i designed the banner that marked the fedora 16 release :P (really proud about that) anyway, ive been using xfce the entire journey ive had with linux. I love xfce and i think it is an amazing DE. However there is one thing i havent been able to get over, being a person who loves creativity and design. Xfce has some nice styles shipped with it by default but for alot of people i know it just doesnt "cut it". Ive recently joined up with a group of people in the FOSS world called The Shimmer Project.
http://shimmerproject.org/about/
Many of the shimmer project core members and leader are infact ubuntu users and were once part of the ubuntu design team but they have broken off "We, as a collective are not part of any particular project. Our individuals, however, are members of various communities". They did this and now develop xfce themes for any user wishing to use them based on this mentality "make Open Source beautiful". I too shared those ideals so i joined them. My suggestion is to make the fedora xfce spin more attractive, just as attractive as it is usable and functional. I use their greybird theme myself and it is simple amazing.
Being FOSS its open to any distro any person who wishes to use it i would like to suggest we possibly shit One or all of The Shimmer Projects xfce themes with the spin.
xfce mailing listxfce@lists.fedoraproject.orghttps://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
xfce mailing list xfce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:30:45 -0500 Zachary Snyder sadin@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hi everyone, ive been involved with the fedora design team for quite some time now for my initiation project i designed the banner that marked the fedora 16 release :P (really proud about that) anyway, ive been using xfce the entire journey ive had with linux. I love xfce and i think it is an amazing DE. However there is one thing i havent been able to get over, being a person who loves creativity and design. Xfce has some nice styles shipped with it by default but for alot of people i know it just doesnt "cut it". Ive recently joined up with a group of people in the FOSS world called The Shimmer Project.
http://shimmerproject.org/about/
Many of the shimmer project core members and leader are infact ubuntu users and were once part of the ubuntu design team but they have broken off "We, as a collective are not part of any particular project. Our individuals, however, are members of various communities". They did this and now develop xfce themes for any user wishing to use them based on this mentality "make Open Source beautiful". I too shared those ideals so i joined them. My suggestion is to make the fedora xfce spin more attractive, just as attractive as it is usable and functional. I use their greybird theme myself and it is simple amazing.
...snip...
I agree we could ship more themes, and more higher quality ones at that.
I guess the first step is to get these packaged up and added to the fedora repos. Then we could all take a closer look and see if we want to change the default or just ship them as options. ;)
Would you like to package them up? I'd be happy to review/sponsor you, or if you don't have time or aren't interested in that, perhaps someone else here in the SIG would be interested in packaging them...
I see greybird lists as also having a gtk3 theme? That could be very nice for us as we use some gtk3 apps by default and it would be nice to get them matched up with whatever gtk2 theme we are using (NetworkManager, etc).
kevin
Id love to attempt to package them up for everyone ive never done anything like that before i mainly work with design but i would be happy to give it a shot. ill get to work!
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:30:45 -0500 Zachary Snyder sadin@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hi everyone, ive been involved with the fedora design team for quite some time now for my initiation project i designed the banner that marked the fedora 16 release :P (really proud about that) anyway, ive been using xfce the entire journey ive had with linux. I love xfce and i think it is an amazing DE. However there is one thing i havent been able to get over, being a person who loves creativity and design. Xfce has some nice styles shipped with it by default but for alot of people i know it just doesnt "cut it". Ive recently joined up with a group of people in the FOSS world called The Shimmer Project.
http://shimmerproject.org/about/
Many of the shimmer project core members and leader are infact ubuntu users and were once part of the ubuntu design team but they have broken off "We, as a collective are not part of any particular project. Our individuals, however, are members of various communities". They did this and now develop xfce themes for any user wishing to use them based on this mentality "make Open Source beautiful". I too shared those ideals so i joined them. My suggestion is to make the fedora xfce spin more attractive, just as attractive as it is usable and functional. I use their greybird theme myself and it is simple amazing.
...snip...
I agree we could ship more themes, and more higher quality ones at that.
I guess the first step is to get these packaged up and added to the fedora repos. Then we could all take a closer look and see if we want to change the default or just ship them as options. ;)
Would you like to package them up? I'd be happy to review/sponsor you, or if you don't have time or aren't interested in that, perhaps someone else here in the SIG would be interested in packaging them...
I see greybird lists as also having a gtk3 theme? That could be very nice for us as we use some gtk3 apps by default and it would be nice to get them matched up with whatever gtk2 theme we are using (NetworkManager, etc).
kevin
xfce mailing list xfce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:31:22 -0500 Zachary Snyder sadin@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Id love to attempt to package them up for everyone ive never done anything like that before i mainly work with design but i would be happy to give it a shot. ill get to work!
great!
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers
may be of help.
Also, there's already some themes... might look at how they are packaged:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=gnome-themes-standard.git;a=summary
(that has the Adwaita themes in it)
kevin
Am Sonntag, den 29.01.2012, 17:49 -0700 schrieb Kevin Fenzi:
Also, there's already some themes... might look at how they are packaged:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=gnome-themes-standard.git;a=summary
A real good example how to package a theme so the individual parts can be used separately is http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=nimbus.git;a=blob;f=nimbus.spec
Regards, Christoph
Would anyone be willing to package the theme(s) if i helped them out i dont really understand how to do this after working with it for a good day or two its not really my area of expertise i usually stick with design and web development.
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Christoph Wickert < christoph.wickert@googlemail.com> wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 29.01.2012, 17:49 -0700 schrieb Kevin Fenzi:
Also, there's already some themes... might look at how they are packaged:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=gnome-themes-standard.git;a=summary
A real good example how to package a theme so the individual parts can be used separately is http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=nimbus.git;a=blob;f=nimbus.spec
Regards, Christoph
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