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New art.gnome.org released

Submitted by thos on Tue, 2005-03-22 06:21. Gnome Art

As you may have noticed, art.gnome.org as recently undergone a major reworking. Some of the new features you can now find here include:

New website design
New User system
Comments system
Rating system
Variants, license and version options for themes and backgrounds
Background resolution submission

I would like to thank all those involved in these improvements, with special mention to Michael Gebhart who helped with the coding, and to Eric Bobbitt and Marco Bonomo who helped with the new site design. And of course Ross Golder who validated the code for release onto the gnome.org servers, and to the all the people who helped test the site and provide the all important suggestions and comments!

With these new upgrades however, we have had to let go all our old content because the task of migration would have been near impossible to do properly. For the moment, the old content can still be found on the ftp at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/teams/art.gnome.org/archive. If any artists wish to have their art included on art.gnome.org then please register an account and use the submit options available from the account page.

Any problems or suggestions for the site can be filed in the art component of the website product on GNOME bugzilla, as well as discussed on the forums.

To celebrate the new release, Radel has done some excellent backgrounds for art.gnome.org:
AGO-Cirlces
AGO-Clean
AGO-Digital-1
AGO-Digital-2
AGO-GreenBlue

huh?

Submitted by foo on Wed, 2005-03-23 02:02.

A) Well, I guess it is better. It is still annoyingly arranged in my opinion. Why, for example, can I not click on the thumbnail or preview of a background or theme to see a full preview? Ther is a silly little text link. Bad and contradictory visual cues. Thumbnails are supposed to be clickable. They should be clickable. They indicate clickability. Stupid.

B) "To celebrate the new release, Radel has done some excellent backgrounds" ?? What? Um well they are ok. The inclusion of four lame backgrounds to celebrate the removal of a very large archive of themes and replacement of one middling site with another? I guess. Why not have your niece make you a cool noodle art painting of her doc to celebrate also? Why not have celebratory enema? Whatever. Tha background announcement just seems arbitrary and absurdly unimportant. Just strange to include it in the announcement I guess.

Yay, I'm wetting myself with excitement. I guess it is lame to flame people for doing work on gnome even if it is not the best way in your opion... Oh well.

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