Hi Artists/Designers!!!
Today starts the Wallpaper Contest for GNOME 2.24, which should give a fresh breath of new wallpapers.
Our idea is to find out good wallpapers to match current GNOME style (Clearlooks and Tangoish style), and with them find out talented artists that may join (if they likes) our artwork team.
There’s not yet an ending date, maybe it will be around the GUADEC, so there can be a discussion in the Meeting.
Please follow the submission guidelines, in both general and quality sections. They summarize the aspects we will take in mind when choosing the winners.
Thanks to KDE people for the permission to take some guidelines from their 4.0 contest 
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I’ve just released the 2.22.0 version.
From the NEWS file:
2.22.0
Welcome 2.22.0 release!
New themes since 2.20:
* Unity Gtk Theme
* Unity Metacity Theme
* GNOME-Alternative Icon Theme
Themes updated since 2.20:
* Foxtrot Icon Theme
So Unity and GNOME-Alternative are in!
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Unity and GNOME-Alternative hits GNOME’s trunk (gnome-themes-extras).
I will do the 2.22.0 release when andreasn will answer me if he needs some more days to complete Foxtrot Icon Theme
Anyway I will wait since Unity is in testing, so I can do some fixes if someone notices some bugs.
P.S.: We chose the name Unity over Suave since it follows the design and it means something more (Suave got problems with translations/meanings between languages)
P.P.S.: I’ve changed a little bit the text of the inactive titlebar so should be more usable. No screenshots for the moment
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Hi guys, I need a name for a new Gtk Theme + Metacity that I made one month ago and I’d like to publish asap in Gnome Themes Extras (I’m also the Maintainer of this module).
Please, if you have an Idea, add a comment here.
Description
Basically it is composed of a Clearlooks-based Gtk theme with a darker background (compared to the default Clearlooks), more roundess, brighter shadings on most widgets (toolbars included), a Metacity theme merged with the Menubar (I’m a fan of the default blue borders, but since FOSS is about choice this is for the guys who like it ), and the Gnome Folders by Ulisse Perusin.
Shot
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Just a quick note following the previous update to Clearlooks with optional Flat Toolbars.
I’ve added the same thing in the Murrine engine, should work quite good except the menubar in RGBA mode… For the moment I just ignore shadow-type when drawing menubars in RGBA mode.
So In the next release you’ll be free to use it in this powerful Gtk Engine…
Thanks goes again to lucazade for the main concept, even if it was a simple patch 
Posted in English, GTK, Murrine, Themes | 9 Comments »
Hi guys, I’ve just noticed I’ve been added to the planet, so “Hello” to everybody! 
If you don’t know who is “Andrea Cimitan” (myself ehehe) I’m working on gtk-engines and gnome-themes since february 2007, I’m the author of the new Clearlooks shipped in 2.20 and of the new themes you’ve seen. Which a lot of you, guys, appreciated so much… (thanks!!!)
I’m also the author of the Murrine Engine, and I’m still working on its transparent version.
So, following my future entries on the planet (or directly from my blog), you’ll be informed on Gtk+ theming, and sometimes, on bleeding edge software (I always love to try new free software)
Cheers to everybody!
Andrea Cimitan
PS: yes I need an Hackergotchi…
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Mentre continua lo sviluppo su Murrine RGBA (a breve un post di aggiornamenti), ho aggiornato il sito di Murrine offrendo la possibilità di registrarsi ed inserire Temi!!!
Questa volta infatti ho deciso di optare per una scelta diversa dal solito sito di presentazione di un software (e ai classici forums), offrendo la possibilità di contribuire in modo diretto.
A contraddistinguersi dagli altri portali vi è il tentativo di fare un briciolo di selezione, in modo che si possano trovare subito i temi più belli senza doversi perdere nei meandri di Gnomelook…
Che dire, se siete themers e avete fatto qualcosina correte a registrarvi e uploadate i vostri lavori che andranno subito a far parte della raccolta ufficiale presente sul sito!
Posted in GTK, Italian, Metacity, Murrine, Themes | 11 Comments »
Tenuto in segreto per evitare inutili discorsi bla bla bla… c’è sempre stato un uomo dietro il suo sviluppo, che già da novembre fu contattato per tradurre i loro sogni in realtà… Questo buon uomo ero io Che quindi ho sempre saputo tutto, cosa vero cosa falso, riguardo al futuro (???) tema di Hardy Heron.
Sono stato informato che tutto è stato cancellato, e che se ne riparlerà in Hardy+1.
In ogni caso, ricordatevi che ne passa una vita tra quei mockups che si vedono in rete, e quelli “ufficiali” dell’UDS (che io ho ricevuto, anche se erano solamente sketches, ed erano datati Novembre). Si pensava ad un tema scuro come avrete sentito, ma mi sono opposto fermamente. Di ufficiale e più definitivo non ho ricevuto niente, dato che kwwii avrebbe dovuto inviarmi un suo mockup questi giorni per discuterne io e lui… e ho invece sentito la posticipazione ad Hardy+1.
L’engine che verrà utilizzato sarà comunque Murrine, che tralasciando il versante “trasparenze“, offrirà una valanga di nuove opzioni nella sua prossima release.
Chiamatelo amichevolmente Murrine++
Intanto lo sviluppo del configuratore procede bene, sono iniziati i lavori con il creatore di Tango Generator e due ragazzi Australiani
Ora servono altre forze per i plugins =)
irc.freenode.net, /j #murrine…
PS: deubuntizziamo il mondo invece!
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Call for coders: I’m search few developers, check out the new post on this blog. I will release the new version when we’ll have a new murrine configurator (pygtk could be a simple solution)
Update 2: Complete alpha support, see GtkEntry for example and have fun
Update 1: Screenshot showing quodlibet with alpha-capable window.
Since there’s a lot of confusion on the web, in the last week I’ve seen a lot of people claiming about “lacks” of Gtk+ capabilities.
Some of them still think that Gtk+ doesn’t have RGBA support. And if it has, it’s related to Cairo rendering just for special (custom) widgets. Or it will require nasty hacks.
This is absolutely false.
And I will show you
Murrine with RGBA support
Yes, buttons have few problems with the contrast… but this is an alpha quality software!
Ehm… how we can get it?
First of all there’s the application support:
The application must set an rgba colormap (for example for the main window).
This will take 2 lines of code per widget (depending on the programming language).
Then you need the support of the Gtk+ engine:
The engine must be RGBA capable, like my development version of Murrine (not released and not available to the public, don’t ask for a release date now).
10 to 20 lines of code, and no hacks are required, just pure Gtk+ API!
And the good thing is that if you stop your composite window manager, the application will automatically looks like any other non-transparent app!
And of course a composite capable window-manager, like Compiz, future Metacity etc etc…
Conclusions
This could open a world of alpha-capable gtk+ applications with no-need of draw custom widgets, as the Gtk engine already draws them
And yes, it is FAST!
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Mentre Ossblog smentiva… il vostro buon Cimi, imperterrito e testardo più che mai , continuava ad affermare l’avvento del tema Firefox 3 per Linux…
…ebbene è praticamente finito
I miglioramenti
Già sul wiki di tango potete osservare come manchi veramente poco dal punto di vista delle icone, mentre sul bugzilla si legge che stanno per essere inviate le modifiche al tema grafico in modo che usi le icone native e i controlli (come toolbar e tabs) del tema GTK corrente.
Il nuovo tema si chiamerà Gnomestripe.
Fantastico!
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