Not digging Flash? Then by the power of cow, view the ogg format.

Download and installation instructions for Ubuntu are available on my wiki. Enjoy :)

Tags: artwork, fun, ubuntu

As with Darkness Returns, Brightness uses the Clearlooks GTK+ engine. I have made the theme available on my wiki. I have used the theme under Openbox with no known issues. I have not tested the theme under GNOME.

Regarding the origin of the theme, if I remember correctly, I used the Gilouche theme as basis to work from. Even though I prefer to use a darker theme, I still really like the openSUSE artwork, it is professional and consistently good.

Tags: artwork, crunchbanglinux, openbox, themes, ubuntu

The theme I have settled into using is called Darkness Returns. I named it so because CrunchBang Linux was originally distributed with a dark theme, then it changed to a light theme, before moving back to a dark theme for the last release; hence, Darkness Returns — pure genius :)

Darkness Returns is based on the Clearlooks GTK+ engine. It is not actually as dark as some dark themes, instead it is more of a halfway house between the lightness and the darkness; maybe I should have named it "Sitting On The Fence"? Anyhow, a couple of people have asked me for the theme and so I have made it available on my wiki. More screenshots of the theme can also be seen on my wiki: CrunchBang Linux 8.04.01 Screenshots. Feel free to use and abuse :)

Tags: artwork, crunchbanglinux, openbox, themes, ubuntu

The complete Serbian set can be viewed on this demo page. The code to display the images is below, simply copy & paste into your HTML/blog template where you would like the random image placement to occur:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/rs/ubuntu_199_164.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://ubuntu.com/getubuntu" title="Get Ubuntu!">
<img src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/rs/199_164_ubuntu.png" alt="Get Ubuntu."></a>
</noscript>

Tags: advocacy, artwork, images, projects, ubuntu

The complete Russian set can be viewed on this demo page. The code to display the images is below, simply copy & paste into your HTML/blog template where you would like the random image placement to occur:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/ru/ubuntu_199_164.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://ubuntu.ru/get" title="Get Ubuntu!">
<img src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/ru/199_164_ubuntu.png" alt="Get Ubuntu."></a>
</noscript>

Tags: advocacy, artwork, images, projects, ubuntu

The complete Elvish set can be viewed on this demo page. You can help spread the word of Ubuntu to the oldest of all common races by copying and pasting the code below into your HTML/blog template:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/ev/ubuntu_199_164.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://ubuntu.com/getubuntu" title="Kaer Ubuntu!">
<img src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/ev/199_164_ubuntu.png" alt="Kaer Ubuntu."></a>
</noscript>

Can of worms anyone?

Tags: advocacy, artwork, fun, images, projects, ubuntu

The full turkish set can be seen on this random rotation demo. As with all the translations I've made the images available from my file server, simply copy & paste the code below into your HTML/blog template where you would like the random image placement to occur:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/tr/ubuntu_199_164.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://ubuntu.com/getubuntu" title="Get Ubuntu!">
<img src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/tr/199_164_ubuntu.png" alt="Get Ubuntu."></a>
</noscript>

Tags: advocacy, artwork, images, projects, ubuntu

The full French set can be witnessed in this random demonstration. The code to display the images is below, simply copy & paste into your HTML/blog template where you would like the random image placement to occur:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/fr/ubuntu_199_164.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://ubuntu.com/getubuntu" title="Installez Ubuntu!">
<img src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/fr/199_164_ubuntu.png" alt="Installez Ubuntu."></a>
</noscript>

Tags: advocacy, artwork, images, projects, ubuntu

The full image set can be seen on this demo page. As with all the translations, I've made the images available from my file server. The code for the images is below, simply copy & paste the code into your HTML/blog template where you would like the random image placement to occur:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/pl/ubuntu_199_164.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://ubuntu.com/getubuntu" title="Rata Ubuntu!">
<img src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/pl/199_164_ubuntu.png" alt="Rata Ubuntu."></a>
</noscript>

Also, believe it or not there are more translations on the way, I'm working my way through them and hope to post an update for each as I do. French and Serbian translations coming soon.

Tags: advocacy, artwork, images, projects, ubuntu

The complete Romanian set can be viewed in this random rotation demo. As with all the translations I've made the Romanian images available from my file server. Copy & paste the code below into your HTML/blog template where you'd like the random image place to occur:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/ro/ubuntu_199_164.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://ubuntu.com/getubuntu" title="Ia-ti Ubuntu!">
<img src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/ro/199_164_ubuntu.png" alt="Ia-ti Ubuntu."></a>
</noscript>

Tags: advocacy, artwork, images, projects, ubuntu

You can witness the entire Japanese set in all their glorious randomness on this demo page.

As with the other translations, I've mirrored Yuya's images on my file server, simply copy & paste the following code into your HTML/blog template where you would like the magic random image placement to occur:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/jp/ubuntu_199_164.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://ubuntu.com/getubuntu" title="Get Ubuntu!">
<img src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/jp/199_164_ubuntu.png" alt="Get Ubuntu."></a>
</noscript>

Also, I'd just like to say a BIG thank you to everybody who is helping out by translating the images and spreading the word — the translations and links are appreciated not only by me, but also by the webmasters and blog authors who are using the images and spreading the Ubuntu love. So, THANK YOU :)

Tags: advocacy, artwork, images, projects, ubuntu

You can see a Dutch Ubuntu randomness demo here. The code for the Dutch images is below, simply copy & paste the code into your HTML/blog template where you would like the random image placement to occur:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/nl/ubuntu_199_164.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://ubuntu.com/getubuntu" title="Neem Ubuntu!">
<img src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/nl/199_164_ubuntu.png" alt="Neem Ubuntu."></a>
</noscript>

Tags: advocacy, artwork, images, projects, ubuntu

Portuguese images

Anyway, while I've been tucked-up in bed and snoring my head off, Miguel Wahnon Monteiro has very kindly translated the Random Ubuntu Advocacy images into Portuguese. He is also hosting them from his domain. Thank you Miguel :)

I've also uploaded Miguel's translated images to my file server, to ease/share any load. You can see the demo here. The code needed to display the images is below:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/pt/ubuntu_199_164.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://ubuntu.com/getubuntu" title="Comece Ubuntu!">
<img src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/pt/199_164_ubuntu.png" alt="Comece Ubuntu."></a>
</noscript>

Italian images

Also, Davide Pedrelli has been busy translating the images into Italian. He has also put together a couple of modules for the Joomla platform 1.0x. I'm not familiar with Joomla, but if Davide's site is anything to go by, I'm sure the modules work well.

As with Miguel's images, I've uploaded Davide's Italian versions to my file server. You can witness the demo here, and the code needed to display the images is below:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/it/ubuntu_199_164.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://www.ubuntu-it.org/index.php?page=Ottenere_Ubuntu" title="Installa Ubuntu!">
<img src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/it/199_164_ubuntu.png" alt="Installa Ubuntu."></a>
</noscript>

Finally, Aldo Latino has also translated the images into Italian, before converting them into a rather nifty animated gif. Nice work, thank you Aldo :)

Tags: advocacy, artwork, images, projects, ubuntu

Update

For the sake of posterity I've now mirrored Marcelo's Spanish images on my file server. You can see a demo here. The code needed to display the Spanish images is below, simply copy & paste it into your HTML/blog template where you would like the random image placement to occur:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/es/ubuntu_199_164.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://ubuntu.com/getubuntu" title="Descarga Ubuntu!">
<img src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/es/199_164_ubuntu.png" alt="Descarga Ubuntu."></a>
</noscript>

Tags: advocacy, artwork, images, projects, ubuntu

The images are based on a set of Ubuntu banners that I created last year. The images are exactly the same size, dimensionally, as the Christmas image, and therefore replacement should be a simple operation.

The image pool

Demo of random display

You can witness the randomness in action on this demo page.

Get the code

Copy & paste the following code into your HTML/blog template where you would like the random image placement to occur:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/ubuntu_199_164.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://ubuntu.com/getubuntu" title="Get Ubuntu!">
<img src="http://crunchbang.net/advocacy/199_164_ubuntu.png" alt="Get Ubuntu."></a>
</noscript>

Image sources

The original GIMP files can be downloaded from:
http://crunchbang.org/misc/199_164_ubuntu_images.tar.gz

MD5: 13c01d306c1e0c5256b6b0f40b6ff788

Please feel free to modify/translate.

License

The images contain logos that may be trade marked and/or copyrighted. Please refer to the authors/policies for further details. Other than that, the images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales.

Updates

• 02/02/2008 | Random Ubuntu Advocacy - Serbian Version
• 02/02/2008 | Random Ubuntu Advocacy - Russian Version
• 01/02/2008 | Random Ubuntu Advocacy - Elvish Version
• 01/02/2008 | Random Ubuntu Advocacy - Turkish Version
• 31/01/2008 | Random Ubuntu Advocacy - French Version
• 30/01/2008 | Random Ubuntu Advocacy - Polish Version
• 29/01/2008 | Random Ubuntu Advocacy - Romanian Version
• 28/01/2008 | Random Ubuntu Advocacy - Japanese Version
• 27/01/2008 | Random Ubuntu Advocacy - Dutch Version
• 26/01/2008 | Random Ubuntu Advocacy - Italian & Portuguese
• 26/01/2008 | Random Ubuntu Advocacy - Now in Spanish

Tags: advocacy, artwork, images, projects, ubuntu

There are 3 brushes, colour, shaded and mono, see the example image below:

Get the brushes

Download the tarball from the address below and extract to ~/.gimp-2.4/brushes.
http://crunchbang.org/misc/ubuntu-logo-gimp-brushes.tar.gz

Alternatively, if you're an Ubuntu user you may find it quicker to use the command line, follow these instructions:

1. Open a new terminal window and move into your GIMP brushes directory:

cd ~/.gimp-2.4/brushes

2. Download the tarball with the following command:

wget http://crunchbang.org/misc/ubuntu-logo-gimp-brushes.tar.gz

3. Extract the tarball:

tar xvf ubuntu-logo-gimp-brushes.tar.gz

4. Clean up, delete the tarball:

rm ubuntu-logo-gimp-brushes.tar.gz

Enjoy :)

Note*
The Ubuntu logo is protected by copyright and/or trademark. Please refer to the Ubuntu Trademark Policy for details.

Tags: artwork, gimp, projects, ubuntu

I asked blog/website owners in the Ubuntu community to help out by placing an image based link on their sites. Many bloggers and webmasters did just that and I'd like to thank them all for their support. Others went a step further and translated the image in various different languages. The image was also adapted to show support for the Kubuntu and Xubuntu flavours of Ubuntu. Again, I'd like to thank everyone who helped out.

Now, at this point I'd like to provide some idea of the impact the Ubuntu Christmas campaign had on Ubuntu downloads. Unfortunately I can't as I have no idea, and I'm not sure anyone at Canonical would know either. All I can provide are some basic figures from the server from which the campaign images were hosted on, here they are…

Total number of requests: 1,163,790
Total bandwidth consumed: 7.64GB

As you can see, the images were requested over a million times. That's quite an impressive figure, even if I do say so myself; I think I'll declare the campaign as a success ;)

Anyhow, I just wanted to provide this final update before I knock off to spend time with the people closest to me. Merry Christmas everyone, have a good one!

Tags: advocacy, artwork, images, projects, ubuntu

Thanks for sharing Joe :)

Tags: artwork, ubuntu

Anyhow, after a little Googling I found a fix:

1. Install openoffice-gtk package from Ubuntu repositories with this terminal command:

sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-gtk

2. Open your personal Openbox startup file for editing:

gedit ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

or system-wide startup file:

gksudo gedit /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh

3. Add the following lines, save and exit:

#Force OpenOffice.org to use GTK theme
export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome

4. Restart Openbox.

A couple of screenshots, in case you have no idea what I'm rambling on about :)

Before applying GTK theme:

After applying GTK theme:

Update @ 14:15 23/12/2007

When using Tango icons, don't forget to install the corresponding package for OpenOffice.org:

sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-style-tango

See updated screenshot below, this time with icons :)

Tags: artwork, openbox, openoffice, ubuntu

Darkilouche Openbox Theme

Copy the contents of the code box below into a new file and save to, ~/.themes/Darkilouche/openbox-3/themerc Alternatively, download and extract this tarball to your ~/.themes directory. Note, the tarball contains both GTK and Openbox themes. Use ObConf to activate the theme when ready.

# Name: Darkilouche
# Author: Philip Newborough 
# URL: http://crunchbang.org/archives/2007/12/23/darkilouche-openbox-theme/
# Description: Openbox theme designed to work with Darkilouche GTK theme.

### Menu settings
menu.title.bg: flat
menu.title.bg.color: #424542
menu.title.text.color: #FFFFFF
menu.title.text.justify: right

menu.items.bg: flat solid
menu.items.bg.color: #524D52
menu.items.bg.border.color: #424542
menu.items.text.color: #FFFFFF
menu.items.justify: left

menu.items.disabled.text.color: #CCCCCC
menu.bullet.image.color: #FFFFFF
menu.bullet.selected.image.color: #FFFFFF

menu.items.active.bg: flat gradient vertical
menu.items.active.bg.color: #FE840C
menu.items.active.bg.colorTo: #BA6410
menu.items.active.bg.border.color: #424542
menu.items.active.text.color: #FFFFFF

### Window settings
window.active.title.bg: Raised Gradient Vertical
window.active.title.bg.color: #565656
window.active.title.bg.colorTo: #454545

window.active.label.bg: Parentrelative
window.active.label.text.color: #ffffff

window.active.handle.bg: Raised Gradient Vertical
window.active.handle.bg.color: #565656
window.active.handle.bg.colorTo: #454545

window.active.grip.bg: Raised Gradient Vertical
window.active.grip.bg.color: #565656
window.active.grip.bg.colorTo: #454545

window.active.button.unpressed.bg: Flat Gradient Vertical Border
window.active.button.unpressed.bg.color: #565656
window.active.button.unpressed.bg.colorTo: #454545
window.active.button.unpressed.bg.border.color: #ffffff
window.active.button.unpressed.image.color: #ffffff

window.active.button.pressed.bg: Flat Gradient Vertical Border
window.active.button.pressed.bg.color: #565656
window.active.button.pressed.bg.colorTo: #454545
window.active.button.pressed.bg.border.color: #ffffff
window.active.button.pressed.image.color: #ffffff

window.active.button.disabled.bg: Flat Gradient Vertical Border
window.active.button.disabled.bg.color: #565656
window.active.button.disabled.bg.colorTo: #424242
window.active.button.disabled.bg.border.color: #777777
window.active.button.disabled.image.color: #777777

window.active.button.toggled.bg: Flat Gradient Vertical Border
window.active.button.toggled.bg.color: #565656
window.active.button.toggled.bg.colorTo: #424242
window.active.button.toggled.bg.border.color: #ffffff
window.active.button.toggled.image.color: #ffffff


# Window settings (unfocused)
window.inactive.title.bg: Raised Gradient Vertical
window.inactive.title.bg.color: #565656
window.inactive.title.bg.colorTo: #454545

window.inactive.label.bg: Parentrelative
window.inactive.label.text.color: #777777

window.inactive.handle.bg: Raised Gradient Vertical
window.inactive.handle.bg.color: #565656
window.inactive.handle.bg.colorTo: #454545

window.inactive.grip.bg: Raised Gradient Vertical
window.inactive.grip.bg.color: #565656
window.inactive.grip.bg.colorTo: #454545

window.inactive.button.unpressed.bg: Flat Gradient Vertical Border
window.inactive.button.unpressed.bg.color: #565656
window.inactive.button.unpressed.bg.colorTo: #454545
window.inactive.button.unpressed.bg.border.color: #777777
window.inactive.button.unpressed.image.color: #777777

window.inactive.button.pressed.bg: Flat Gradient Vertical Border
window.inactive.button.pressed.bg.color: #565656
window.inactive.button.pressed.bg.colorTo: #454545
window.inactive.button.pressed.bg.border.color: #777777
window.inactive.button.pressed.image.color: #777777

window.inactive.button.disabled.bg: Flat Gradient Vertical Border
window.inactive.button.disabled.bg.color: #565656
window.inactive.button.disabled.bg.colorTo: #454545
window.inactive.button.disabled.bg.border.color: #777777
window.inactive.button.disabled.image.color: #777777

window.inactive.button.toggled.bg: Flat Gradient Vertical Border
window.inactive.button.toggled.bg.color: #565656
window.inactive.button.toggled.bg.colorTo: #454545
window.inactive.button.toggled.bg.border.color: #777777
window.inactive.button.toggled.image.color: #777777

### Misc
border.color: #424542
borderWidth: 2
padding.width: 3
window.handle.width: 2
window.client.padding.width: 0
window.label.text.justify: left

### Fonts
window.active.label.text.font:shadow=y:shadowtint=70:shadowoffset=1
window.inactive.label.text.font:shadow=y:shadowtint=20:shadowoffset=1
menu.items.font:
menu.title.text.font:shadow=y:shadowtint=70

Darkilouche GTK theme

When running a pure Openbox installation the Darkilouche GTK theme can be activated using the gtk-theme-switch utility. The package is available from the Ubuntu repositories:

sudo apt-get install gtk-theme-switch

Once installed, enter the following terminal command to run the theme switching GUI:

switch2

Tags: artwork, openbox, projects, ubuntu