Plasma Themes Contest writeup
Thomas Georgiou
tageorgiou at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 14:07:57 CET 2008
2008/3/19 Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic at gmail.com>:
> On Wednesday 19 March 2008 01:12:36 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Ivan Čukić wrote:
>
> > > As I see it we have a couple options:
> > > * kde-look
> Ok, so be it :) - look the nre rule 1.
>
>
> > > The KDE Plasma team is inviting everyone to participate in the contest to
> > "in a contest"
> Ok, I revoked my s/a/the/ change... but I'm still in favour of the /the/ (just
> to say :) )
>
> So, should we 'Ship It!'? :)
>
> Announcement RC1
> ========================
>
>
> Announcement:
> Plasma Themes Contest
>
> The KDE Plasma team is inviting everyone to participate in the contest to
> create Plasma themes from which a select few will be chosen to be included
> as a part of the upcoming KDE 4.1 release. This is a great opportunity to
> contribute to a very visible component of the KDE project - the Plasma
> desktop.
>
> A great feature of Plasma is the ability to theme components of the
> desktop using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs). This means there is no need
> for you to know C++ or any other programming language to create a
> great looking theme.
>
> You only need to know how to use one of many graphics tools (e.g.
> Krita, Inkscape, The GIMP, Karbon, etc.) and that is all. Depending on your
> prowess with such tools, you can create great looking plasma themes in as
> little as an hour.
>
> You can find a quick guide to creating Plasma themes here:
> http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Development/Tutorials/Plasma/Theme
>
> Rules:
> 1. Submit your work in the 'Plasma Themes' section of the kde-look.org
> website. Put a notice '(for theme contest)' in the title of the theme.
>
> 2. Submissions will be accepted as a tar.gz file of the theme folder.
> 3. Submission deadline is 9th April, 2008 18:00 UTC. Themes submitted after
>
> the deadline will not be considered for this release.
> 4. Winners will be announced by 18th April, 2008.
> 5. All artwork must be original or otherwise meet the requirements for
> distribution as part of a GPL licensed project. Preferred license is LGPL.
>
> Guidelines:
> 1. Consistency. All theme parts should fit nicely with each other.
>
> 2. Completeness. Although Plasma automatically loads required images from
> the default theme when they are not present in the active theme, it is
> suggested to create replacement SVGs for all theme elements.
> 3. Uniqueness. The unique always stand out in the crowd; --(semicolon
> works better) so should your theme.
Remove the --(semicolon works better)
>
> Contestants *who are* not selected should feel free to make their
Remove the **
> themes available to the community (via KDE-Look or similar websites).
>
> Have fun!
> The Plasma Team
>
> =======================
>
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