I think that, rather than thousand discussions about ethical/philosophical reasons behind this whole feeling (these discussions in the end are useless, in my opinion), what we should do is involving more guys from the community. Exactly.

The simple advantage of the free software is that everyone can contribute, and at the same time the disadvantage is that our biggest softwares are usually maintained/developed only by few guys…

The impression I had in these 2 years of experience as a GNOME dev is that _we_are_few_, and much of the ideas and features we have in mind can’t be done because the time is limited and two devs can’t work on 100 bugfix and 100 new features at the same time. Bugs have the priority, of course, so we will see only few features of the planned ones. But if these 2 devs were 6 (so 4 new contributors) I’m sure we would have seen a different scenario, with much more features implemented of the 100 requested

From my experience, unfortunately, much of the work I’ve done was done alone, without, for example, a couple of guys who could have helped me in getting the same things done quicker.

Seeing the number of new linux users that everyday are switching from other operating systems, I’m sure that the number of contributors should increase, that’s the way! Imagine 100 new gnome devs! ehehe too optimistic Imagine a free software world where everyone learns how to contribute with his small part, translating, doing a new icon, working on a plugin… the bugzilla *attach+patch+review* is so slow with only 2 devs for each module.

We should involve more guys, maybe I’m too optimistic, but it’s my vision. And, imho, this is the only way.

PS: maybe we could recruit guys from a special wiki page in GNOME Live, with the list of the modules/softwares that need help?

Hi guys, unfortunately my wifi stick dead in the last 2 days, and now I’m forced to be offline. 

I’ve tried a resurrection with some soldering without any success.

If you want to help me finding some $,  €, whatever , please click on the donate link, it will be a beautiful gesture for me, since I’ve always coded for free to you

I should also buy a cheap laptop (strange enough that a hacker doesn’t have a laptop) and few things useful to do some artistic designs (from colorimeters to whatever), so your *thanks* is always very appreciated.

I hope to be online soon, thanks to everyone who is so kind to help me!

We got a bunch of good nature pictures (though only a few can be accepted because of the guidelines in terms of usability), and only a few (but good) abstract ones… so if you are great with inkscape, patterns etc etc please submit!

Not because the pictures were not good, but because a nice photo is generally not suitable as a wallpaper!

As said: please follow the quality guidelines. Expecially “Soft focus” and “No strong focal points”.

Also, we are thinking about the ending date, maybe in May or the first days of June, since Thomas (thos) needs more time for the translations! (so go and submit your walls!)

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

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!

The ugly code is in the gedit window… yeah you might want to kill me!

Commit will follow soon. Cheers.

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

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