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Download The Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander Community Wallpapers

| Date: August 26, 2013 | View Comments | Tags: artwork, community wallpapers, eyecandy, Saucy Salamander, ubuntu, wallpapers

The Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander community wallpapers have landed in Saucy recently.

The wallpaper pack comes with 18 elegant images, including 3 cool salamander wallpapers:


Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander wallpapers

New PPA For Numix GTK And Icon Themes, More

| Date: August 21, 2013 | View Comments | Tags: artwork, gnome shell, icons, numix, themes, ubuntu, unity

Quick update for Numix fans: a new Numix PPA has been created and it hosts daily builds for Numix GTK theme, two Numix icon themes, a Plank theme and even a Numix wallpaper. More Numix related artwork will be added to this PPA in the future.

Furthermore, Numix GTK theme is now compatible with GTK 3.4 and Pantheon (it already supported GTK 3.6 and 3.8), meaning it should work properly in Ubuntu 12.04 and elementary OS 0.2 Luna.

Here are a few screenshots:

Numix themes
Numix GTK, icon themes and wallpaper (Unity)

Lubuntu 11.10 Default Theme "Ozone2" Gets Revamped

| Date: July 25, 2011 | View Comments | Tags: 11.10, artwork, lubuntu, Oneiric Ocelot, ozone, zukitwo

Lubuntu is a lightweight Ubuntu flavor that uses LXDE. According to the Ubuntu Developer Summit that took place earlier this year in Budapest, Lubuntu will finally be considered an official Ubuntu flavor starting with 11.10.


The default Lubuntu theme - Ozone2 - has been revamped for Lubuntu 11.10:

Lubuntu 11.10 Ozone2

GIMP And Inkscape Plugins To Publish Images To DeviantArt

| Date: May 20, 2011 | View Comments | Tags: artwork, cli, deviantart, extensions, gimp, inkscape, linux, ubuntu

Gimp publish to deviantart

Martin Owens has announced the release of two plugin that allow you to publish your images to DeviantArt with a single click from GIMP or Inkscape:

This is a BIG deal my friends and I’m very excited because not only do we have this functionality, but we have it FIRST, before ANY proprietary software package. That’s right, the stash API was only announced last week and here I am giving you the keys to brand spanking new functionality right from within your favourite art creation applications!

- Martin Owens

Lubuntu 11.04 Gets New Default Theme, Wallpaper

| Date: March 20, 2011 | View Comments | Tags: 11.04, artwork, linux, lubuntu, Natty Narwhal, wallpapers

Lubuntu is an unofficial Ubuntu flavor based on LXDE.

Remember Ozone, the theme proposed to become default in Lubuntu 11.04? Well, the theme got some improvements and it's now a lot faster so it was made default starting today. Here's how Ozone looks now:

Lubuntu 11.04 new default theme

Ozone: New Lubuntu 11.04 Proposed Theme

| Date: January 19, 2011 | View Comments | Tags: artwork, linux, lubuntu, natty, ubuntu

A new theme called O³ (Ozone) has been proposed for being default in Lubuntu 11.04 (an LXDE unofficial Ubuntu spin). The theme looks a lot like the new Xubuntu theme (introduced in Xubuntu 10.10) and in fact it's based on the same theme: Zuki Blues by Lassekongo.

Ubuntu Light Themes 0.1.8 Update In Maverick Brings Fixes, Improves Menu Speed

| Date: September 22, 2010 | View Comments | Tags: 10.10, artwork, eyecandy, light themes, maverick meerkat, themes, ubuntu

The Ubuntu Light Themes - version 0.1.8 was released today (with a bit of a delay - these fixes were announced  a week ago on the Canonical Design blog)  and while it doesn't bring major changes, it improves the menu slowness (it seems the fix only improves the situation but does not completely solves it - see the comments on this post) and fixes bad contrast between text and background.

New Way To Get The New Official Ubuntu Font Family

| Date: September 15, 2010 | View Comments | Tags: 10.10, artwork, design, fonts, maverick meerkat, ubuntu

In case you don't know, the new Ubuntu font which is supposed to be shipped with Ubuntu 10.10 is only available in a private PPA for now.

A while back we posted about getting the official Ubuntu font by joining the Kubuntu-users group. There were way too many people joining this group so it was revoked access to the private PPA. In a discussion with Paul Sladen, he pointed to a new way regular users can get access to the Ubuntu Font Family private PPA: go to https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-typeface-interest and click "Join this team" (you'll of course need a Launchpad account). You should receive an email when you have been accepted to this team (it will take a while - I'm not sure how long). When this happens, do not install the deb! Add the PPA so you can stay up to date with the latest versions of the font!

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