Where’s the originality?[en]

I was looking for some nice GTK2 themes on gnome-look.org, and during a couple of weeks I noticed the fact that originality is starting to make place to plagiarism and building upon others’ work. I admit the fact that I made a theme in June or July, using some elements from other themes, but at this moment the number of low quality wallpapers/GTK themes/icon themes is drastically increasing.

From my point of view, Kim Kahns is one of the best theme designers. I was always waiting for him to bring some new theme, with all the great details he put into his work. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have too much time anymore for this kind of thing. So, my dear Linuxists… where’s the art and where’s the creativity? I would like to see more persons like Kim, persons who can inspire and can create beautiful works. Things that are original. Things that don’t copy Vista or Mac (although I like its style:D) and can bring a new meaning to the looks of Linux distributions and especially to Ubuntu.

I am going to start creating a new theme pretty soon, hopefully something from scratch. Will you do the same thing?

posted: 08 October 12
under: Ubuntu