Unity Graphics Team

Some of you may have noticed that the graphics team website has gotten a major face lift.  I figured a site redesign and reorganization might inject a bit of fuel into the graphic design fires of the community.  Here’s a bit of what happened in the site redesign:

BBPress Forum Removed

No one had posted to the graphics forum in 4 months.  I figured it was time to retire it.  For now, I’ve linked the top forum link to a graphics board on the main site of Unity Linux.  I’m most likely going to install Simplepress soon here.  For an example of how simplepress works with a site like ours, see devnet’s Exchange blog forum.  More updates to come on that for us here.

A full backup was performed before this system was removed and I’ll save that in case any Unity Admin has a desire for it.

Coppermine Gallery Removed

All images from the old Coppermine gallery now reside in our Gallery Showcase.  No images were deleted.  A full backup was performed before this system was removed and I’ll save that in case any Unity Admin has a desire for it.

Gallery Showcase

The new Gallery Showcase page was put in.  This replaces our Coppermine gallery and provides one less area that hackers can attack us on.  Public uploads ARE enabled.  You have to register to upload and images will only appear upon approval.  So if you have something to share with us, please do!

Why now?

Why not now?  The graphics team is VERY talented and provides Unity Linux with a fantastic amount of icons, themes, and wallpapers.  They should have a main site that caters to and showcases all the great things they do.  I believe this new design does just that.  Hopefully, you all agree!  Please do let us know what you think of the new digs and thanks for using Unity Linux!

Agust, a.k.a. verdegal, has been putting E17 themes together for a while, and just keeps getting better & better at it.

The attention to details and quality of work always blows us away. Agust is part of the E17Unity project, working as the groups main designer, making prospective users more and more eager to see the first release and get their hands on it.

Agust’s latest theme, titled “Black Silver” (can be downloaded by clicking on the preview below)

to follow Agust’s work, you can follow this thread at the Unity Linux support forum

After a long stalemate within the gfx project, a decision was made to go ahead, and use one of the logos, created by Ruel.

This logo may change over time, but for now, this is it.

This blog has also been updated to the newest version of WP and a new theme “Pixel” was installed.

More news to come…