On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:30:45 -0500
Zachary Snyder <sadin(a)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