Diagraming with Inkscape

Inkscape is really cool for creating diagrams like this:



Full size SVG source available on my Fedora artwork page.

More wallpapers

With a little experience, is easy to fake a 3D look with Inkscape:


I got carryed away with this, and created a bunch of SVG wallpapers based on it, see below a couple, more are available (along with the SVG sources) on my Fedora wallpapers page:

Easter eggs

Lately i got in a frenzy of drawing game marbles with Inkscape so i couldn't stop drawing some easter eggs, which are pretty much a special case of those marbles (just shapes as an ovoid).
This seems logical, as today is the traditional day for painting eggs for easter, but not so logical considering i am definitely an atheist.
My only excuse: i will enjoy this upcoming 3 days week-end and the traditional festive meals (but still feeling a little dirty for exposing those religious symbols).

Branding in desktop games

I wonder how appropriate is to use themes for the games in GNOME to "promote" a distro. I was told by someone to send such themes upstream.
Now, if i would be the upstream maintainer, i would feel the need to be distro-impartial and reject such contributions, this is why i am reluctant to propose those upstream.
But i, as a theme creator, i am not sure creating such themes in the first place is a god idea, still weighting it. Opinions?

Anyway, just for fun, i did such a theme:


This Same GNOME theme is available for download.

Open Source Parking

Quoting Netcraft about the new launched Open Source Domain Parking Service:

The project's goals are to increase the market share for open source software and generate revenue from advertising on the parked domains, which will be used to fund "political and promotional efforts" on behalf of open source software.

I'm glad one of the ads used on those parked domains is my OpenOffice.org button:

Follow-up: more wallpapers

A follow-up to my previous wallpapers post - more on the same theme:

OMG PONIES

So Caolan asked for a pink (OMG PONIES) Gnome wallpaper.
A Fedora one is good enough? (I quickly adapted a blue one from my collection).


Update: And a Gnome one:

Searching for Fedora on Google

I was surprised seeing a Google search will return my Fedora wallpapers page as the third result in about one million entries.



The first two entries are from the same website, so I am only a step away from world domination on this topic.

Bluecurve Palette

Here is a Bluecurve palette for use in Inkscape and Gimp.



It may be useful when creating Bluecurve icons.

Power in numbers

I previously talked about this: Microsoft has stated that the company will support the OpenDocument format in MS Office if there is customer demand. So the OpenDocument Fellowship started a petition to show this demand is real. This just reached a significant milestone: over 10.000 signatures, representing over 277.000 computers.

You can sign it too!