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Thanks for the offer.
well the main area we need help in is porting the mint apps from GTK to QT4.
the backend of the apps are done so we really need a QT4 front ends for them.
you could look at qtdesigner (qt4 version), as a start.
This may be more coding than you like though.

there is always new artwork needed, wallpapers, icons, etc.
I always thought it would be good if someone packaged up some/all/bestof the wallpapers posted in the art section.

Thanks again

Boo

checkout the artwork area of the forums.
there is also a mint art site.

Boo

This is an interesting thread, as I am in the process of redesigning a GTK theme for Gnome. It is based off of the GlassyBleu theme used by HP for their Ubuntu based netbook theme. The theme itself is 98% complete, and the only thing I am not finished with is the wallpaper.

I called it GlassyMint, and it is a dark theme with some nice hints of green thrown in. I created a new menu button for MintMenu and have included it in the panel folder for people to manually add once the theme is installed.

Although I am pretty new at making themes, I feel this is a good starting point. I still have a long way to go for actually creating a full blown theme from scratch since I basically copied one already made; I feel personally that this looks good. I may need some help is getting rid of un-needed things that has to do with the netbook part of it, but then again it may be useful for those who wish to add the netbook remix packages on their systems. I don't know yet.

I will post some screenshots of it in the appropriate artwork thread later today, so my apologies if it seems like I hijacked this particular thread.

so the easier way to start a theme etc is to start with the source of another, epically if it is in the repos and you dl the source and start modifing that.

apt source package_name

modify the package, rename etc and then build the deb of it.

apt build

That may be a very simplified version of what to do.

Boo