Plasmatic

GDM Themes by novomente 17 comments

I uploaded a new archive with Plasmatic theme. Download it again and follow the Installation instructions in the "Installation" file located in the theme archive. Now it should be more easy to install Plasmatic theme. - Jan 03 2017

OneColor with 4k HiDPI and XXL version

Metacity Themes by novomente 8 comments

Here you are. Beginning of version 1.3 there is the violet version of the theme included. Anyways you can create your own colored theme you want. Just read the "README (easily customize your theme)" file which is located in the themes' archive. ;) - Jul 20 2016

Virus Recordings

Wallpaper Other by bkeating 22 comments

Nice prototype. The interactivity makes the ideas included more clear. As playground it is perfect.

With HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript there is a lot of things possible. The UI may look any way. It reminds me a time where applications had their own original look and usability. But at those times it was a problem, because users must learn every application to use.

The problem was solved over years with GUI toolkit (GUI components etc.). Such toolkit was library programmed for each operating system or each Desktop Environment.

It was also a solution to low memory of a desktop computer, where application shared the GUI toolkit in order to save memory footprint.

With HTML5 etc., there is similar problem to per application original look and usage. One can say it can be solved the similar way with programming a HTML, Javascript toolkit. Yes it is possible. But in the end many applications could be unsatisfied with such toolkit and their developers would choose to create their own toolkit. So I think that instead of making a toolkit or HTML/JavaScript API, there must be some guideline (concept) desription which most of application GUIs or most of GUI libraries or most HTML/JavaScript toolkits have to follow.

The guidelines only says how the desktop would look and function. Such thing is already done with Human Interface Guidelines ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interface_guidelines ) which should the DE guideline stand on and freedesktop.org ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedesktop.org ) which is a project to make X-Window toolkits offer the same usage from a user's experience (such that applications using KDE toolkit would be very similar in usage as applications in GNOME and vice versa). The HTML/JavaScript guideline should play the same role as freedesktop.org.

The guideline must be not too complex in order to allow a wide range of applications to follow it. On the other hand there could be some more guidelines (concepts) for example a General User UI Concept, Administration Concept (concept for system administrators - terminal etc.), Graphics and multimedia concepts (like DTP, 3D creations, movie creations etc.), Server System Concept, and so on.

Maybe we should make difference between a "guideline" term and a "concept" term. The difference is that "guideline(s) is enough general to make wide variety of GUIs following it. The "concept" is more specific and describes for example a HTML/JavaScript "components", desktop, icons, functionality. The concept is only a document describing functionality and look of a toolkit, but it is not programmed toolkit. To explain it exactly lets say the GNOME is a coded toolkit. The GNOME concept is only a document describing the GNOME toolkit. With such description the GNOME developers exactly know what is a Gnome-Shell and what should it do and then they develop the Shell in C++.

So we can make a guideline and then a FluiDE-HTML/JavaScript concept (what is a document describing the FluiDE desktop) and developers can then code their own FluiDE toolkit exactly build for their single application. Then they need not to share any of HTML/JavaScript code among applications from different developer groups and all applications will look and function very similar.

Of course as well as web application frameworks are created (Joomla, Drupal etc.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_application_frameworks ) there could also be finished coded FluiDE toolkit or many other toolkits and frameworks shared among applications from wide range of developers.

The primary goal of a guideline is making usage over wide range of applications very similar (preventing a user to learn how to use every application) etc. The concept is a specific (but still anough general and open) to create UI (to say it exactly the GNOME concept exactly describes the GNOME DE and developers can create their own toolkits and frameworks which would look and behave exactly as a GNOME DE - so there could be per application specific GNOME DEs with or without sharing the framework).

Our task could be only to create very smart concept(s) which they really worth to follow. Plus code a FluiDE DE - as a real working example of what the concept is capable of. And if the FluiDE code will be perfectly written, it could be shared and meet with a success.

These are my thoughts today.
- Sep 20 2012

Firefox Arctic Faenza

Icon Sub-Sets by Masgter 1 comment

This is COOL icon. I just like it a lot :)

Voted up (plus) - Mar 29 2012

Virus Recordings

Wallpaper Other by bkeating 22 comments

Is it possible to merge Martin Gimpl's Stripes with Windows 8 Metro apps? I made an image to show the merge. I think it breaks the beauty of Stripes Philosophy, but it is only for our thoughts about new things.

http://novomente-activities.blogspot.com/2012/02/stripes-windows-metro.html

BTW - I must note something to David - Although I can release my imagination to fly long time ahead and above, or I have only some crazy ideas or thoughts, when I must make some real concepts I'm able to think with feet on the ground. And when making final decisions I'm able to strike all thinking and ideas with thin line and decide for older proved but better solutions :) - Feb 20 2012

DarkCold - 3xMetacity

Metacity Themes by originalseed 6 comments

Great Theme. Voted PLUS, Plus, plus - Oh no, it's allowed only to vote once. ;) - Feb 06 2012

Virus Recordings

Wallpaper Other by bkeating 22 comments

Quote:With all this talk about a new menu concept, I started to wonder how relevant "applications" are anymore. I alluded to this previously (where I suggested that files were the focus rather than the app), but what if apps simply "extensions" of the OS, all accessed from a single UI? For example you would type or say "email joe" and it would then customize the UI to better fit the task, but remain essentially unchanged. So basically, I'm saying there should be little or no difference between lauching a program and using it. An application would then be nothing more that a collection of capabilities for a library, with some instructions on how the OS should present those ablilties. The OS would do everything else.

Exactly. I had this idea too. I imagined every application be a plugin into the OS with single (or multiple types) of user control. The whole OS will then be nothing more than a single application extensible by plugins (the app plugins - libraries etc.). I was also thinking of technical issue little bit and talk about some technical things of this idea when we were talking about today application plugins (in previous comments some time ago). But it has one problem. It is the OS itself. It would be a lot of work to do and maybe even to redesign the OS. Well thats a deal like a whole computer world. :) - redesign Linux from the base :D

OK nice ideas. But we are still only 3 here most active in our group. Although this group can start a UI interface revolution from XEROX era still we must concentrate on reachable goals (as David said). To define some nearby task of our work would require to balance between the imagination and thinking with feet on the ground. Both points of view are correct (I think) at least few days or weeks (maybe months) before thinking in real tasks.

But it all is so exciting that I have the same feeling: start some pre-work, think on technical issues, determine some final goals. Make some thing which will do something we are talking about here.

OK but without a hurry I will speak for a few days about the whole pack of ideas I got in my mind 2 years ago. Surely you will have another ideas and thoughts from many points of view. When we discuss the ideas coming up in our minds next days we can realise that we can lay down some real reachable goals and maybe a good start of some tries and real work. It seems that it depends on us whether we provide something what will attract another guys to join this group (at least).
- Jan 28 2012

Gillet

Metacity Themes by novomente 8 comments

Hmm... Send me the source code to my email (which You can find in the README file or in the beginning of each theme's source code). I will take a look at it and send You a comment, what's wrong. Or if You don't want to send a source code, take a closer look to the mathematical expressions and especially constants. Or there can be something wrong with names of <draw_ops name="whatevername"> or something like that. - Jan 22 2011

Polaris with 4k HiDPI version

Metacity Themes by novomente 15 comments

Thank You :) - Jan 22 2011

PSD - metacity

Metacity Themes by Padster 13 comments

I like this theme. New unusual idea ;) Voted GOOD - Dec 21 2010

PSD - metacity

Metacity Themes by Padster 13 comments

Try Google Translate service ;)

Or some of these Firefox extensions:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/918/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/239624/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/79923/

although the translation is not perfect but you will understand I suppose.

BTW LEODELACRUZ plz try to talk english. If you don't understand english try the above translators too ;) - Dec 21 2010

Electronica

Metacity Themes by novomente 11 comments

Change the icon is much more difficult as it is a big change to source XML. My advice is to study Metacity theming. There are nice instruction how to build Metacity themes here:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/MetacityThemes - Nov 22 2010

Polaris with 4k HiDPI version

Metacity Themes by novomente 15 comments

Single Archive created: Polaris pack - Nov 09 2010

Polaris with 4k HiDPI version

Metacity Themes by novomente 15 comments

blue archive contains only blue versions of the theme. Customizable color archive contains only versions (squared and rounded) for which you can freely change color of the theme from Gnome Theme Manager. Color pack contains everything ie. blue + customizable color + all colors from screenshots. - Aug 10 2010

Gecko

Wallpaper Other by vladstudio 1 comment

And the colors are beautifully fresh. I cannot wait the summer, when I go swimming to a nice blue clean watter under the warming sunshine. :-) - Feb 23 2010

Electronica

Metacity Themes by novomente 11 comments

Can you send me a screenshot of that window with the line? And plz note what kind of GTK theme do you use.

email: novomente@gmail.com
- Jan 28 2010

Electronica

Metacity Themes by novomente 11 comments

hmm... I'll think about it. Still it is version 0.8 ;) - Jan 27 2010

Thingy

Metacity Themes by BearOso 6 comments

Nice simplicity. Very good looking. And the blue color is fresh as watter in a pool these summer days. Voted good. - Aug 21 2009

Saturglass with new black version

Metacity Themes by novomente 20 comments

Hi. The package you downloaded contains more files and folders inside it. Besides README textfiles there is one archive file which is the theme. So to install it first you have to unpack (unarchive) the downloaded package.

You can do so by right clicking on it and choosing 'Extract Here' from popup menu. It will create folder 'Saturglass blue'. Then you can install the theme the same way as you did, but instead of choosing downloaded archive you have to navigate to extracted folder and choose the archive inside that folder (name is similar: 'Saturglass blue').

BTW There is Installation instruction text file inside downloaded archive. But it is not so detailed as I said it in this comment. - Aug 08 2009

Saturglass with new black version

Metacity Themes by novomente 20 comments

So I made panel background images. I made these sizes: 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 pixels. Images are only for horizontal panels because it is most used. Vertical panels can be created by editing image in an image editor or image viewer - rotate 90 degrees left or right. Every color used in theme color pack is used in the images (including color of minimize and maximize button - minmax).

Panel-background images are included in theme archives. - Jul 31 2009

Gillet

Metacity Themes by novomente 8 comments

Thx. ;) - Jul 28 2009

Saturglass with new black version

Metacity Themes by novomente 20 comments

Yes I can provide. Can you tell me what hight size of panels do you use? Because I must make images of certain heights which can vary. And also if you use vertical panels (the width of it). - Jul 28 2009

Gillet

Metacity Themes by novomente 8 comments

Older (laptop) and netbook version is now called (n-book) because it is meant to be used for notebooks and netbooks. But anybody can use it also for desktop if you like ;) - Jul 26 2009

Apollo 11 joke

Wallpapers Linux/Tux by novomente 7 comments

that's one small step for man, one giant waddle for penguin kind.

xD Nice one. - Jul 24 2009

Apollo 11 joke

Wallpapers Linux/Tux by novomente 7 comments

Ya. I know about the shadows. I was making the image quickly (to release it) and I couldn't find a fast way to make Tux shadows as the Apollo 11 shadows. So I decided to leave the wrong shadows to remind that there are some documentary movies saying that the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon was Hollywood fake. ;)

BTW: I'm glad you like it. Did you vote? ;) - Jul 23 2009

Apollo 11 joke

Wallpapers Linux/Tux by novomente 7 comments

Thx ;) - Jul 23 2009

Polaris with 4k HiDPI version

Metacity Themes by novomente 15 comments

These GTK themes go well with Polaris Metacity theme:

Divinorum like:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Divinorum?content=65533
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Divinorum+Orange?content=70010

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Divinorum+Black-Blue-Green?content=88476
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Divinorum+Green+%26+Cyan?content=79114
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Divinorum+Cyan+%26+Magenta?content=71798

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Divinorum-Revisited?content=89200

Cobra:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Cobra?content=58699

If you like Polaris theme and use it with some nice GTK theme, comment your experience here for others. - Jun 27 2009

Hematocrito

GTK2 Themes by MCesare 12 comments

Very interesting idea. Colors, shapes, simplicity - nice :) I'm glad you OK. Voted good. - Jun 10 2009

Polaris with 4k HiDPI version

Metacity Themes by novomente 15 comments

Sorry for the wrong link. This is correct:

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=105460 - Jun 10 2009

Saturglass with new black version

Metacity Themes by novomente 20 comments

Thanks :) - Jun 10 2009

Saturglass with new black version

Metacity Themes by novomente 20 comments

I'm looking forward to try your port in Sawfish. :) - Jun 09 2009

Saturglass with new black version

Metacity Themes by novomente 20 comments

Thanks. I'm glad you like it.

To make GTK 2.x theme - hmm I was thinking about it and took a closer look on GTK+ theming. It seems not to be difficult but it means to learn some thinks, what takes a time. I have never made a GTK+ theme, so I am not experienced in it. And now I must concentrate on university I will attend. And so I'm not planning making GTK+ theme in near future - I'm sorry. Maybe you (or someone else) can try to remake MacOSX theme to dark version. It could look interesting.

BTW the GTK+ theme used on screenshots is Divinorum. - Jun 07 2009

Saturglass with new black version

Metacity Themes by novomente 20 comments

Cool :-)
Wish you all spending great times. - Jun 05 2009

Saturglass with new black version

Metacity Themes by novomente 20 comments

Yes, this is possible. And very easily. :-) All you need is devel version (included in all packages) and to read part of a "README (easily customize your theme)" file which is included in all packages too.

I just note, that you can use different color for menu, minimize, maximize/restore, close, and titlebar. - Jun 05 2009

Gillet

Metacity Themes by novomente 8 comments

The netbook (laptop) version was created specially for tawie2002 with tawie2002's little help. Thanks. - May 30 2009

Gnome Menu Extended (Fedora package)

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by ariszlo 2 comments

Thanks for that. I was looking for this for a long time. Hope GNOME team will contact you to let your menu be part of GNOME :)

Voted good to all distros. - Apr 27 2009

Digital ice green

Wallpaper Other by EscpeArtist 3 comments

Now, this is one of my favorites - Apr 15 2009

Digital ice green

Wallpaper Other by EscpeArtist 3 comments

it looks like the download link points to the red version instead of green - Apr 13 2009

Polaris with 4k HiDPI version

Metacity Themes by novomente 15 comments

If you are interested in bright theme, you can try new Gillet Metacity theme:

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Gillet?content=101234 - Apr 03 2009

Gorgon

GTK2 Themes by paraboy 15 comments

If there isn't problem on server, then it could be this:

When you watch your screenshots with Firefox, it stores screenshots in it's cache. So when you upload new screenshot that have the same name as the one already on server (and also in the Firefox cache) and try to review it then Firefox won't download newer uploaded images from server because it already has them in it's cache.

Solution:
Just upload your new screenshots and then force Firefox to reload page from server (not from cache):
> Shift+Left-mouse-click on reload button (force reload) or,
> Ctrl+F5 (force reload) or,
> Ctrl+Shift+R (force reload)

Or update your new screenshots, clear Firefox cache and reload the page.

More here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=124843 - Mar 19 2009

Polaris with 4k HiDPI version

Metacity Themes by novomente 15 comments

Recently I made new GDM theme. Its name is "Plasmatic" and it is released in colors almost equal to Polaris color pack. If you are interested here is a link:

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Plasmatic?content=99735 - Feb 22 2009