Themes can make a desktop look really great.
We should have theme competitions where people can send in their contributions for review and get a winner.
Individual artists like people from DeviantArt, etc can contribute, or professional design studios can contribute and get some nice coverage.
The winning theme can get shipped with the next release of Ubuntu. (Not necessarily as the default theme, but as an alternative)
Rules: the theme must be "free".
Artists will get the chance to compete and test their skills and show off their abilities.
We will get some awesome looking themes.
A prize could also perhaps be awarded to the winner to incite motivation.
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Tuxoid wrote on the 17 May 08 at 22:00
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The here is the ease of creating a theme for GTK+ or Qt. Both require knowledge of how to create an rc file specific, not only to the widget toolkit, but to the specific theming engine, as well. This is the biggest thing holding me back with creating GTK+ themes. There needs to be a wizard for creating themes. From what I have read on Gnome's website, all a GTK+ theme consists of, is an override of GTK+'s 20 different drawing functions (And I assume, it's not too different for Qt). The overrides are obviously built off of either, GTK+/Qt, GDK/Qt core, Cairo or if not any of those, X11 (as these are the primary graphics components of a Linux system running Gnome, KDE or Xfce). Therefore, if one understood these libraries enough, they could make that wizard and make it simple to make themes for any artist.
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