All my themes are released under the CC licence. You can modify and release them as long as you release them under the same CC licence:

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License, which stipulates:

[link]

"The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy."

You know what pisses me off to no end? Guys who extensively mod their systems (many of it a personal mod), and don't release them to the public. But it gets worse. Then there are those that extensively mod their systems, don't release them to the public, and (to top it all off), post screen-shots. You want worse? These same guys who post screen-shots put "..." in the descriptions. Worse? They don't reply to kind notes or e-mails for a simple request; a name of the icon theme, anything that might point the interested party a little closer to the items. Even providing a titbit of information is beyond these guys cause I guess they are either too busy, too cool, or simply have too much of an ego... take your pick.

So here is my own personal fuck you to all of you maggots, bottom feeders, scrubs, noodles. You guys give themer's a bad name. You create a negative stereotype of some elitist bullshit that we (true themers) are not part of.

I have vowed never to be like that. Sure I may ignore personal requests that flood in when I have stated at verbatim that it will not be released any time soon, but I have never hoarded what was on my system.

So again, to all those that work to better people's desktops, kudos! To those who think they are something special by grabbing other people's work and posting some screen-shot, you aren't shit! You little screen-shots don't mean shit.

Get the roach spray baby! Fucking maggots! Do yourself a favour and just pass over my DA account...

Lokheed, holdin' it down.

I have released the Tango GIMP and Tango OOo icons. I am doing all this from my Mac so please bare with my if I am shy on information.

These two were the easiest to release (screenshots were already available).

Next in line will be my personal Tango theme and any other miscellaneous works I have lying around.

I use GNOME/Gentoo. I am unfamiliar with XFCE4, Fluxbox, Openbox, etc. I also cannot help with specific mods in some distros (e.g., Ubuntu), so if its not default to GNOME, please, don't expect any help from me specifically.



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Q). Why does my theme look all busted and screwy (yes, screwy is a perfectly legitimate technical term).

A). My themes are pixmap based. They don't work all that well with resizing and are suited to my system. This could be resolved if they were code-based, but hey, I am an artists not a coder. If you follow the font settings, you should be OK, but, if it still doesn't work for you, you are on your own. I release me themes "as-is" and if it works on my system (the theme wouldn't be released if it didn't), then I can't help you. I honestly do make an effort to fix anything that crops up, but sometimes its either a limitation of my skill, or the pixmap theme structure itself.

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Q). What font are you using? What DPI? What settings?

A). I am using bitsream-vera (gnome.org/fonts). I have it set to 75 DPI and at 10 pixels. These settings ensure that your themes will look exactly like mine. Use the Font Manager in GNOME to fine-tune your settings.

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Q). How do I remove the program icon on the Metacity window borders?

A). This setting is located directly in gconf. Fire up gconf-editor and go to: "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout". Next we need to change this line: "menu:minimize,maximize,close" and remove the "menu" entry. Leave the ":" as this makes the buttons stick to the right. If you remove it, the buttons will all move to the left.

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Q). Can I get that Nautilus background?

A). The Nautilus background is nothing really, but I will make it available in my scraps: [link]

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Q). I want to download your Tango icon theme.

A). Not released yet. I do appreciate everyones enthusiasm, but it won't be public for a while. No amount of pleading, begging, or groveling will change that (please stop sending me emails asking to be solely sent the set for uhh, testing purposes). It's just not mature enough and there are licensing issues to work out still.

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Q). How do I change the icons in the notification area (programs such as GAIM and Banshee)?

A). Most of these icons don't load from the icon theme. They are internally built into the program or load from other (obscure) directories. The GAIM icon for example loads from /usr/share/pixmaps/gaim/icons. For these two reasons, they are extremely hard to theme. So the answer is not a simple one; you will have to hunt down where the icon might be, and sadly, most of the time the icons are built into the program. Without going through the source, there is no easy way to change them.

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Q). Help, when I try to install your themes, I get a error message saying, "The file format is invalid." What's going on?

A). This is because the files are either compressed using zip or rar. DeviantArt doesn't like tar.gz extensions. GNOME doesn't recognize these file formats. What you will need to do is unpack the file by hand for local users:

~/themes/ (for themes)
~/icons/ (for icons)

Alternatively, you can unpack them for system wide use:

/usr/share/themes
/usr/share/icons

NOTE: /usr/ might be different depending on your distribution and where it installs GNOME.