New art.gnome.org released

Just to answer a few of the comments...

Font issues: I have reverted to the default font colour for most paragraph text, which should result in better contrast. You should notice that the main text is now fully configurable through your browser in terms of sans serif font, size and colour.

XHTML Support: This is work in progress. I do take standards support very seriously, and the site is now much better than it was but there is still work to do.

Migration of old content: I knew this would be an unpopular move, however, I simply do not have the time or inclination to migrate the old content to the new user based system. It’s a trade off between new features and old content and I’m afraid new features won the day. When I asked what people thought on gnomesupport.org forums, only one person replied, with the suggestion I archive the content, which is what I have done.

Registration: I’ve made the registration completion notice a little clearer that you have to login using your details once you are registered. If you didn’t get any confirmation message at all, please let me know.

Desktop integration: Work has started on an XML based backend to art.gnome.org but it wasn’t fully completed for the release. There is also a project to create a theme selector for art from art.gnome.org and other sites. If you would like more information, please e-mail me (see below).

General comments: Obviously many people do not realise that art.gnome.org is chiefly the work of a single individual with occasional help from others. I do the work I can on art.gnome.org in my free time and as a volunteer, but I am always looking for extra people to help out. Part of my plans in doing this new work was to build a proper system to allow other people to help maintain the site (working around the restrictions placed on art.gnome.org by the gnome.org system administrators). So please, if anyone else feels they are able to put in the time to help with art.gnome.org, contact me at thos at gnome.org. For art.gnome.org to continue and to improve, I really do need some extra help.

Is this the fourth time the community's theme/art contributions to GNOME have been thrown out, requiring resubmission; or only the third? And let's not forget how every other GNOME server was brought back up speedily following the security investigation; but art.gnome.org took most of a year. I know four different people that haveput a lot of work into nice-looking, fairly themes for GNOME in the past that refuse to do so now because they get the impression that the GNOME project would rather people *not* submit art.

It is just me or the thumbnails (for backgrounds, at least) are smaller?

Weee. How big is the chance, I got the exact same user ID as I have here. Is it a sign, 66? :)

But why can't there be a single sign-on?

Good job, been awaiting this!

is here.

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Sridhar Ratna

Of course it's still a bit marginal, but that's made up for by it's elegance and simplicity (for example direct drag and drop installation of themes aren't possible with download redirections on gnome-look.org). I also very much like the idea of a theme site that only publishes selected works. The old page unfortunately was drowning in themes which all looked exactly the same. Of course the usefulness of this will depend a lot on how active it will be maintained.

Cool, this looks like it is now a capable competitor of gnome-look again. I immediately noticed that in the search the preview thumbs are not linked anywhere. Ah, and maybe a /bit/ better contrast for the font would be better.

Of course, the missing content sucks a bit though. I'll start by adding my theme back in... oh, well, it seems that the registration is broken. Clicking the "Register" button after filling in my details only reloads the page.