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.
My friend Péter recently started blogging about his adventures with producing music using free software.
I wish him the best of luck!
Rob Straudinger recently added border-image support to his css markup-powered GTK+ Engine. This allows you to create really fancy buttons and other cool stuff in a rather simple way. Check out John Resig’s post about border-image implementation in Firefox for some cool demos of what you can do with this.
Back at GUADEC in Birmingham, when Garrett proposed using css-markup for widget themes, I thought it sounded a bit too cracky to be doable. Rob’s recent work, however, looks really sweet and since every designer and his mother out there knows css, this is a great way to lower the barriers of theme creation.
Rob is in great need of designers to test these things out in the wild though, so if you’re a designer with css knowledge who always wanted to create widget themes, don’t hesitate to check it out from svn and give it a shot.
svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gtk-css-engine/trunk gtk-css-engine
You can find out more about the upcoming 0.3 release in the GNOME Theming blog.
Just a quick reminder that we’re going to hold our monthly GNOME Art Meeting tomorrow (Nov 10th) at 19:00 UTC in #gnome-art on irc.gnome.org
On the agenda so far is:
See the wiki page for more info.
Hope to see you there!
Nine out of ten times I tell people I’m a Icon Designer, they tend look at me like I’ve just told them I’m a Shrubbery Maker. Sometimes I just lie instead.
Myself, Carlos and Hagen attended FSCons (Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit) this weekend and on Sunday I did a talk on the Tango Project.
As we all know by now, “The Tango Project is nothing less than an attempt to impose Gnome’s bland aesthetics on all other desktop environments.” [1], and the KDE artists decided to define their own look and feel as part of their visual refresh for KDE4.
This, at the time made me a bit worried, as having the other big desktop not buying into the idea of a cross-desktop look and feel makes things slightly harder for your friend the application developer to the point where he almost decides not to do any visual integration to with your free desktop at all.
Looking at the recent work on the smaller sizes on Oxygen and the work on bigger sizes in Tango, it turns out that perhaps my worries was for no reason though. [2]
So, I showed this to my girlfried. It turns out she couldn’t spot the difference between the styles. But ok, fair enough, she’s not used to looking and these, and might not spot the important differences. But what about the audience at my talk, who are used to staring at these graphical elements all day long?
Sorry guys, it turns out they guessed wrong in about 50% of the cases. Good news for ISV/ISD’s though I guess! 
1. From the old “throw this stuff out now please”-thread on freedesktop.org
2. To be honest, sneaky as we are, we have been working on lowering the gaps between the styles. Sorry for that.
Vincent is a filthy liar, I’m not getting married.
Might be that he’s nervous because he’s going to be a father next month so that his mind plays tricks on him.
Christian, I did ask my girlfriend about it. I’m sorry to tell you that she don’t get the whole Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte-thing at all because she honestly finds it way too abstract.
This is true for a whole bunch of other people I know, that needs their computers to get stuff done, as well.
So yeah, we fail. Hard.
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