New sound theme proposal for the 6.04 release

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

Greetings all!

My name is Ivica Ico Bukvic and I am a long-term Linux
user/developer/enthusiast, as well as musician/composer. After working with
Redhat, Mandrake (Mandriva) and Debian, I've been using Ubuntu for a little
bit over a year now and have been very much impressed by the amount of
refinement and polish this particular distribution has. Needless to mention,
I intend to stick with Ubuntu for some time to come.

At any rate, I have a small pet project that I've started in my pursuit of
adding more "polish" to my desktop. The project in question is a desktop
sound theme which can be used in conjunction with either KDE or GNOME
desktop (although by default it comes with an installer for KDE only). I've
posted the theme on the kde-look.org and since its debut it I've received a
number of encouraging comments. Although I spoke with the KDE developers
regarding its possible assimilation into the KDE project, my timing has been
relatively poor as I had contacted the devs shortly after the KDE project
changed its sound theme, so they justifiably did not feel like altering the
sound theme yet once more in a matter of weeks/months.

Considering, however, that the Ubuntu distro apparently seems to be very
receptive to the continuous, "bleeding-edge" improvements and upgrades,
especially anything that may improve the overall desktop appeal, I was
wondering whether you would be willing to consider adoption of my sound
theme into your upcoming 6.04 version? If you would like to learn more about
the sound theme and/or download it, it is freely available at:

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=12584

NB: The theme has not been updated in a while due to some unexpected turns
in my personal life. However, should there be interest in its adoption I
could definitely commit to completing the theme by adding sounds to just
about any KDE and/or GNOME app that would require a fresh sound event. In
its current state, it covers just about every core KDE event except for 1:
the "CD burning failed" sound event.

I would greatly appreciate your thoughts in this matter.

Thank you very much!

Best wishes,

Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor
http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/