Random pixels

Everyone who signs up for a a monthly Friends of GNOME donation receive a postcard from a GNOME hacker as a thank you. We found the regular, touristy postcards a bit boring, so we decided to create some ourselves, based on motives by four GNOME artists.

They are drawn by Kalle Persson, Vinicius Depizzol, Máirín Duffy and myself (Andreas Nilsson).

So if you would like one of these, sign up to be a monhtly donor!

Once you’re done with that, you can encourage others to donate by putting one of these badges on your blog or website.

I wonder if some of this could give us more of this.

Are you a artist who feel like contributing a couple of pixels to the GNOME project, but don’t know where to start?
Here are ten open issues that need your help today:

Been working on the appearance of Thunderbird for the last two months now and as things are starting to land in the Nightly builds, things are indeed starting to look quite nice. As always, Lapo have been of great help in the icon department.

I’ve always enjoyed Thunderbird and it’s predecessors that have been following me since I started out with web stuff when I was around 14 years old. Therefore, working on this would really scratch my own itch as I felt it always looked out of place on my Linux desktop and allow me to give back to the e-mail client that served me with so many messages over the years (and pay the rent, yay!).

Anyway, here are some shots:

Main window:

Compose:

Address book:

As you might note, the icons in the main toolbar pretty much look the same, this is mainly because they are going away as soon as the great work that’s been going on with the new toolbar layout lands.

As we’ve used GTK+ stock items wherever we can, your folders in the sidebar will of course look native. Comparison between regular GNOME, Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu:

Please check out a Nightly build and report any issues.

Cool, it appears MadsRH took my work and remixed it.
Next step, take his work and remix it for the GNOME 3.0 schedule!

Ever wish you had your own UI-lab, but can’t build one with all the expensive cameras, big boxes and one-way-mirrors in your house right now?

Pongo 0.1 (requires python and istanbul)

It catches sound and video from your web cam, records your desktop and merges it together into a ogg file that’s ready to publish on the web.
Hope anyone finds it useful. We’re planning on a more proper UI and something that catches the key and mouse presses.
Here is a short screencast (sorry for the colors, don’t hesitate to send fixes if you know what’s wrong)

Big thanks to Daniel and Olivier, who helped me with some initial tests and Jan, who put together the final python code.

Went to FOSDEM during weekend. As always at conferences, I got a lot of requests for artwork for various things. As I tend to have somewhat of a goldfish memory, can everyone who asked me for stuff please add it to the GNOME Artwork requests page?

Thanks and apologies.
- Your humble pixel pusher

Glad to see the new Friends of GNOME website finally online.
Kalle and I started with this when he and Clemens was over at my place some time ago.

We started with ideas and sketches. We tried a couple of different approaches and ideas for the selection of the donation level and a bunch of different ways of displaying the page where you select your hacker and different illustrations.

Then we took the best sketches and imported those into Inkscape for selecting the best colors, choosing the exact styling of the elements and made sure the text that Stormy provided us with would fit etc.

The last step was the actual html+php+css+jquery voodoo. I spent quite some time battling php (I didn’t really know any php before) to allow the page to display different things on the second page, depending on your choice on the first page and trying to understand how paypal worked exactly. Kalle fixed some jQuery and made sure my broken php snippets would work properly. Collaborating over Dropbox worked pretty well actually.

I also made a banner that all GNOME fans can put on their websites or blogs and link to http://www.gnome.org/friends.

Someone also asked if I could make a general GNOME Lover banner too, so here is that as well.

Did a attempt to create a graphical representation of the GNOME Release Process, as requested here.

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The birds turned out pretty neat I guess, or as Vincent said:

My friend Péter recently started blogging about his adventures with producing music using free software.
I wish him the best of luck!