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.
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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