most-beautiful-eyecandy-dept :)

[Marek Peteraj <petemar kiwwi sk>]

Hi all,

When I first saw Gnome, I immidiately fell in love with it, partly
because of the  'G' hidden in that cute footprint(the gnome logo) and
the moon on the screen(gnome-term-night), and party because  there's
something that already looks much better than Windblows or the old MacOS
series and it's for free (source-code including)!

Then, one year had passed, and Nautilus came onto the scene and I was
thrilled, it was amazing! There was nothing that would come even close
to Gnome in terms of graphics. So much eye-candy, I was really happy.
But suddenly MacOS X and WindblowsXP appeared on the scene...I don't say
their graphics is superior to that of Gnome(well currently that of MacOS
X perhaps, but as I took a longer look at it, it appeared a little bit
artificial), all I want to say is that Gnome has a big potential here,
much bigger than anything else, and that's why I miss a project, that
would be called Gnome-Eye-Candy project , equal(!) to other
projects(usability, accesibility) to let some great artists out there
contibute into Gnome. What if there are some of the industrial L&M
people-linux-gnome-lovers lurking out there, (or some Walt Disney
animators perhaps) trying to find out how to help out with graphics? I
imagine the project would look like this:

	icons, pixmaps d-base - there is a strong need to let those great 2D/3D
artists out there contribute to the GNOME project, similar stuff as CVS
where any artist can share his work, currently (as far as I know),
there's Tigert, Jimmac, but what about the others: Frederic Toussaint,
Matt Aubury, Star, people who have worked on Nautilus and so on...
People would share  *.blend/*.xcf/whatever files with all those
layer/path/whatever stuff, work together. The d-base would contain high
resolution 'working version' pixmaps/SVGs and icons as scaled down
images, if someone has a cool icon he's working on, he could submit it,
just like source-code in CVS.
	discussion list where developers meet artists and discuss the needs to
achieve the most beautiful eye-candy, example: custom shaped
buttons(like mozilla modern), transparency and AA fonts all over the
place, out-of-boundary icons, scaling pixmaps issue(I had discovered
Nautilus can do more, just use a pixmap of any size as icon, and then
stretch it), rounded edges on sawfish, casting shadows, what happens
when maximizing/minimizing windows, psychological effect of colors(such
as removing grey and avoid brown shades), fluent zooming/resizing of
icons in Nautilus, turning on/off eye-candy(speed trade-off), some would
like it to have a more 'serious' look, some would like more
'comix-style' funny/crazy look etc...
	Wallpapers d-base  - a huge d-base of images and photos with different
sizes divided into categories, where anyone can add, all complete with
voting system, some basic wallpapers should be considered for Gnome,
such as those from 'Star' - those are great!!


Disregard my comment if something like this already exists and if this
is really the case, it should be obvious from the main page at
www.gnome.org.
Other than that, I love my Gnome desktop and can't wait to see G2 ;-)
Thank you all, Marek