Proposal For Xfce spin

[Zachary Snyder]

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 at scrye.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:30:45 -0500
> Zachary Snyder <sadin at 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
>
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