<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><<From: Max <maxter@email.it> <<canonical could create an '<a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" target="_blank" href="http://ubuntu-look.org/">ubuntu-look.org</a>' or '<a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" target="_blank" href="http://art.ubuntu.com/">art.ubuntu.com</a>' site as <<proposed in this thread simply duplicating the art.gnome.org site and <<slightly modifing the 'gnome-art' app. _____________________________________________________________________________ <From: Matthew Nuzum <newz@bearfruit.org>To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork <ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com>Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><There's no reason this would have to be an Ubuntu specific feature. I <would suggest contributing the idea to upstream and make it easy to <dictate how it downloads additional themes and wallpapers. <Therefore it would not be a fork, it would be an Ubuntu community <contribution. Suse users would benefit because suse could reconfigure <it to download themes from their selected list. Likewise if a <cross-desktop initiative worked with the system (like gnome look) then <multiple locations could be incorporated. <By the way, there is a program like this already, it's just not <integrated with the appearance applet. I downloaded it from synaptic <and used it to install themes directly from some central place <(art.gnome). It's not very easy to use though. It's called gnome-art <0.2. With some polish and a little integration with the appearance <applet it could be a nice solution. _____________________________________________________________________________ That's a great idea!  Further, if it can be done in the nautilus wallpapers window, the same tool could be used in the nautilus themes/icons/fonts/etc windows to download other related content directly from the web w/o having to go searching.  It would be great for all GNOME-based distributions, and only the wallpaper part might download from a special Ubuntu-defined sub-category of the main gnome site.  To any Canonical employees on this list-serve -- is this something that you would be willing/able to push upstream for inclusion into GNOME? Thank you, Brian </div></div></div> </body></html>