Comments on: Comedy: On Art and, Specifically, Fedora Art Concepts

By: MrEvil

MrEvil — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:27:48 +0000

Well, I’ve known some people who leave everything as is and then ask me why does my desktop look so strange… To which I’m almost bound to aggressively answer “Me: Gentoo, You: Ubuntu”… haha

No, really, very funny post… And I’d say Gentoo designs its artwork according to which use flags are on. And this if and only if the artwork isn’t masked.

And perhaps there’s some Suse renegade working at Fedora who wrote similar scripts to choose shades of blue

By: /V

/V — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:05:28 +0000

“Personally prefer the Ubuntu system since you get something that looks good rather than being based on some ideals.”

looks good = diarrhea brown and savana all around?

By: e

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:57:25 +0000

@Type3Singularity
“Gentoo just bundles the defaults”

Which defaults? (^-^) Gentoo has defaults? Where?

I mean the default GUI in a clean Gentoo install is a CLI. After that it’s up to you. Have you ever tried to tell a Gentoo users how their system should be?

They’re only going to complain that it’s not how they want it & change it immediately anyway. That’s why they’re using Gentoo. What self respecting Linux user keeps the default config anyway?

By: DVC

DVC — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:43:23 +0000

Nice article. Keep it up.

By: jhansonxi

jhansonxi — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:32:14 +0000

The last Solar image reminds me of a Rotavirus.

By: LinuxLover

LinuxLover — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:56:02 +0000

The three best looking distros are (in order):

Suse
PCLinuxOS & Fedora (tie)

Suse is simply in a class all by itself, as far as artwork. Some distros are just plain ugly, like Ubuntu, and some distros look like the artwork is run by a bunch of assembly programmers. Then there are some distros that simply have no direction, art-wise, at all.

By: MB

MB — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:50:37 +0000

Solar looks very promising.

By: InTheLoop

InTheLoop — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:20:59 +0000

nicu - Actually, you should be happy your theme did not make the list. That means I could not figure out how to make fun of it.

By: 1369ic

1369ic — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:27:53 +0000

You forgot the Slackware process: Include whatever came with the upstream package.

As it should be, of course.

“My only question is: if the sun is the kernel, what is space junk?”

Let’s see: Planets would have to be X…dominant life forms on the planets would have to be window managers…political or ethnic groups would have to be programs…the space program of a political group would probably be most akin to a browser, so space junk would be…blogs.

By: Type3Singularity

Type3Singularity — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:04:05 +0000

I think Gentoo’s art style is just ’screw it’ and then ship the upstream defaults, possibly branding a ‘G’ green/purple somewhere if the package maintainer feels like it.

Personally prefer the Ubuntu system since you get something that looks good rather than being based on some ideals.

Desktops are supposed to be functional and look good not imply lofty philosophical thoughts, not that “Sulfur” really did that, firstly I thought Fedora 9’s style was ‘waves’ or ‘liquid’ based on the boot screen and wallpaper, it wasn’t untill I read the release name and saw some of the yellow rocks (that only seem to be on the website art not in the distro at all and look more like yellow crystals or gold rather than actual sulfur which is more of a boring browny dull orangy yellow colour).

Also Sulfur tends to make me think of the smell of rotten eggs…

Personally I would be happy with whatever in Fedora 10 provided they get rid of those horrible Cyan window borders by default.

Solar seems like my favourite from the list, but then you have to consider the context, its an Operating System, kinda seems too similar to Sun/Solaris.