iphitus Posted November 27, 2003 Report Share Posted November 27, 2003 (edited) Announcing MandrakeUsers first theme/wallpaper competition! The theme for this is Linux and/or Christmas, one of the two is great, two of them just as great You can make anything from a wallpaper, XMMS theme, to a fluxbox deco. If you arent too skilled in the GIMP, or have somehting you really like, you can use other pieces of work and add to or modify them. So long as you do more than add one or two words If you make theme add a screenie to go with it, we dont all run KDE or whatever you use. If you make somehting in the Gimp, i suggest uploading the xcf so eveyone else can see what you did. Optional of course. If you need somewhere to host it email it to iphitusau(at)yahoo.com.au, ill happily upload it. To enter simply reply here with the link, entries are to be in by Midday Monday 15th December (Australian Time) when this thread will be locked. I will start a poll and the users here can vote, whos is the best! Good luck!! Use the Source!! iphitus EDIT: NOte change in date of closing and change requirements slightly. Thanks bvc! Edited December 3, 2003 by iphitus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted November 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2003 Where are the entries? Cmon people!!! You have till next Monday -- the 8th, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted December 2, 2003 Report Share Posted December 2, 2003 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 2, 2003 Report Share Posted December 2, 2003 For one, I'm just now seeing this thread (wonder how many others I've missed? anon, where's my 'View Your Post' in links? lol.... /I run and duck). For two, I think you may be losing people with the use of 'Christmas' as the theme. Not because poeple don't like Christmas but because skinning is a major effort, especially in linux. I've been thinking lately about doing something but if I do, it'll be something I and others can use year round. Which brings me to my next point...(three)...we ain't got no stinkin gui like windowblinds does. December 8th is hardly enough time for those interested but not very experience at theming (including me). :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2003 Well i did mention it didnt have to have christmas in it. And ill move the deadline to the 15th. Extra week. I'd just like to see some entries :D It doesnt have to be 100% from scratch too. SO long as you make a decent amount of modifications. I will post mine on friday night. I know a few people in who have been in #musb have started... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 2, 2003 Report Share Posted December 2, 2003 OK, hope I find the time for something....maybe :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted December 2, 2003 Report Share Posted December 2, 2003 Hmmm... if I'm the only participant, does that mean that I automagically win? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 Iphi - you asked for it - you'll get it :lol: 2 wallpapers, romantic German christmas, 1: nature, 2:traditional German christmas markets in the old towns. SWEEEEET. (or trash?) Took hours to collect all this stuff, assemble it, resize it, arrange it with The Gimp. And don't blame me if you think that's tasteless. These are pure emotions http://home.tiscali.nl/berenstraat/bilder/.../markets_de.jpg http://home.tiscali.nl/berenstraat/bilder/...r/winter_de.jpg --anna, 01:09 am, Amsterdam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 anna -- great work! I love what you did with the santa in the snow in the second one. There are some great photos in the other one too, did you take them? Darkelve -- there is another participant now, and i am yet to see anything from you yet! :P illogic-al: what do you mean by '...'? bvc: great! good luck! iphitus: oh wait thats me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 i bumped you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 I didn't see any invision theme catagory, but I was up to the challenge at trying to create something that could be easily imported to any of these invision boards --- but especially ours. http://68.82.95.61/forum/ (this site is not up 24/7) A board had to be set up on my home machine to allow access to the admin functions and my server to upload the new art. The templates and css were adapted from the board's default pages, and most of the graphics have been borrowed from elsewhere and tweeked in the gimp. Still needs some work done yet, and some more tweeking, but you can get the general idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 As I told you in #musb, looking fabulous scoopy. Good work fixing the candy cane. It looks much better now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 Ok, here's my entry, http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/4001214/ People! You have a week and 12 hours. Get gimp going and lets see what you can do! iphitus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james Posted December 12, 2003 Report Share Posted December 12, 2003 Well, what i did was a modification of penguin wallpaper with transparent background from http://www.themedepot.org/itemdetail.php4?id=232 . "Merry Christmas MUB" added on top together with some falling snow. The background is still transparent. Screenshot below... The left one is 1600x1200 (1.28MB), the one on the right is the result of resampling the 1600x1200 to 1024x768 (746KB). The sign on top has a bit more snowy effect and the penguins outlines are white. @ Iphitus, I hope you dont mind, i took the liberty of sending the pngs to your yahoo.au address as i currently dont have a host (that is, if anyone wants to check it out... :P ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 12, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2003 Looking great James however, I havent got the email. Maybe it was too big. I just made a geocities account that you can upload to. It is an Australian Geocities account. I just PM'ed you the details The other alternative is to meet me on IRC. I will be there most of the day and if I am not in there or not active, just wait, someone else will be and some of the others will have the details Lets go people!! Just over 2 days left!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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