The RAVEfinity project has been going through a bit hard times as of late. Development has been slow we are restructuring some things but can't speak of what going to happen just yet.
Those looking for a good Ambiance and Radiance Colors Theme for Ubuntu 12.10 a great friend of the RAVEfinity project Beniot has updated his theme for Ubuntu 12.10. It's very simular to ares in many respects so if you want Ambiance and Radiacne Colors on Ubuntu 12.10 Please check out this theme:
Ambiance Cruncy
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Ambiance+Crunchy?content=151180
Supports Mate, and Xfce as well.
We hope to get a Ubuntu 12.10 version of our theme out but we don't know how we are going to do it yet. (A straight port of the 12.04 or one with redesigned colors) we are moving into other spaces and systems, but still keeping with the open source ideals more to come. Thanks.
We have also took notice of a few theme tweak apps that let you change your theme color on the fly, We are very interested in this and may pursue it further to bring it to ambiance and radince. (It would be much nicer to maintain)
But as of writing all of my Ubuntu systems are pretty botched (Wireless and Video card driver issues that aren't solvable I need to do something hardware wise and I will do that soon.)
Intel HD 2000, 3000, 4000s work so dang well!
Users of Nvida Quadro 140M on Ubuntu 12.04 I feel your pain!
P.S: Sorry to any of those who comments or emails we have missed, we hope to get back to you soon. Our sincerity and apologizes life got in the way of out project :)
-RAVEfintiy
Jared.
RAVEfinity Blog: Project News & Discussion.
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Welcome to the RAVEfinity Blog.
Thanks for stopping by the RAVEfinity Project's Blog!
This site used to be our homepage however it has now become our official blog.
Goto Our Homepage View Our Work And Themes
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
We are releaseing all of the unreleased wallpapers! at once! tonight! now! for real!
As as an thank you for everyones support and patience we have decided to release all the unreleased wallpapers for the RAVE Wallpaper Collection 1!
Before we where releasing them a few a week. We have just done a big push and threw them all up on the web. Check them out Here -->>
Stay tuned we will still be posting other exclusive wallpapers down the road for those who check the RAVE Wallpaper Collection page. And RAVE Wallpaper Collection 2 is in the works! we hope it make it bigger and better!
Grab Them Now Here -->>
Zip Files Coming Soon.
Before we where releasing them a few a week. We have just done a big push and threw them all up on the web. Check them out Here -->>
Stay tuned we will still be posting other exclusive wallpapers down the road for those who check the RAVE Wallpaper Collection page. And RAVE Wallpaper Collection 2 is in the works! we hope it make it bigger and better!
Here is a preview of the wallpapers for download:
Grab Them Now Here -->>
Zip Files Coming Soon.
Update On Ambiance & Radince & Humnaity Colors 12.04.1 and 12.10 Support.
Ubuntu 12.10 was released a few weeks ago. But as of yet we do not have a version of our themes that work with it just yet, What gives?
What about the improved version for 12.04.1 promised first?
Sadly to say we have hit a few personal setbacks, I would like apologize immensely for the delay.
Setbacks:
1st setback I am now working 6 days a week (For Now). Thus I DO NOT always have the time to or energy to work on it as much as I did before.
2nd Setback, I have not been feeling 100% , I'm thinking it may be a sinus infection lingering. Hopefully that will be out the equation soon.
Other Setbacks:
Its alot of work, I have to manually rename 50 or so folders then 70-80 text strings and change values manually.
That being said I am not giving up. on the themes It just may take a bit. Please bare with us if you enjoy using the theme. Once again I am Sorry.
Other Notes:
Some users have expressed dissatisfaction with 12.10 in general and have "downgraded" to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Personally we don't see the need to upgrade to it over 12.04. That being said we are not devaluing it or the need to support it. However the urgency is a bit less then it was for us to support a 12.04 LTS. (If you recall we rolled out support for that in 2-3 days after release, It nearly tooks years off our life but we got it done! :) )
Once again we are not calling Ubuntu 12.10 bad or unusable. But We recommenced you stick with 12.04 LTS if it works well on your system. We will be getting a butts in gear and rolling out all the new updates soon.
What You Can DO:
In the mean time check out the theme on 12.04 and our brand new wallpaper project. despite the lack of press we have worked really hard on the RAVE Wallpaper Collection 1 (Over 2 years, Of Picture taking and editing, grated not everyday for hours on end but still alot ) (If You Want)
Keep Visiting the site if you want to support the project. (If you want)
Tell people about the RAVE Wallpaper Collection! :) (If you want)
Thank You For Your Time And Understanding It's been great working with the community and we still are!
-Jared
&
The RAVEfinity Project
What about the improved version for 12.04.1 promised first?
Sadly to say we have hit a few personal setbacks, I would like apologize immensely for the delay.
Setbacks:
1st setback I am now working 6 days a week (For Now). Thus I DO NOT always have the time to or energy to work on it as much as I did before.
2nd Setback, I have not been feeling 100% , I'm thinking it may be a sinus infection lingering. Hopefully that will be out the equation soon.
Other Setbacks:
Its alot of work, I have to manually rename 50 or so folders then 70-80 text strings and change values manually.
That being said I am not giving up. on the themes It just may take a bit. Please bare with us if you enjoy using the theme. Once again I am Sorry.
Other Notes:
Some users have expressed dissatisfaction with 12.10 in general and have "downgraded" to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Personally we don't see the need to upgrade to it over 12.04. That being said we are not devaluing it or the need to support it. However the urgency is a bit less then it was for us to support a 12.04 LTS. (If you recall we rolled out support for that in 2-3 days after release, It nearly tooks years off our life but we got it done! :) )
Once again we are not calling Ubuntu 12.10 bad or unusable. But We recommenced you stick with 12.04 LTS if it works well on your system. We will be getting a butts in gear and rolling out all the new updates soon.
What You Can DO:
In the mean time check out the theme on 12.04 and our brand new wallpaper project. despite the lack of press we have worked really hard on the RAVE Wallpaper Collection 1 (Over 2 years, Of Picture taking and editing, grated not everyday for hours on end but still alot ) (If You Want)
Keep Visiting the site if you want to support the project. (If you want)
Tell people about the RAVE Wallpaper Collection! :) (If you want)
Thank You For Your Time And Understanding It's been great working with the community and we still are!
-Jared
&
The RAVEfinity Project
Thursday, September 20, 2012
"Behind The Scenes" The Devlopment Of RAVE Wallpaper Collection 1.
RAVE Wallpaper Collection has been in development for well over a year. And it was finally released on Tuesday September 18th We snapped some photos of us working on it before that time. As a behind the scenes type deal!
Observant users will also notice we are testing and using the unreleased version of Ambiance And Radiance Colors 12.04.1 gtk theme! (See the Blue Colored elements in the theme we are using a new blue!)
Screenshots:
Download Or View The Wallpapers In The RAVE Wallpaper Collection Here -->
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Whats In A Name. (Story Behind The Wallpaper Collection Naming)
This is a semi fun post. So some users have noticed the "Clever" or "Funny" Naming of some of the wallpapers in the RAVE Wallpaper Collection 1.
We had to name a lot of wallpapers (A lot not even included) and we drew inspiration for those names from many places. Music, People , Movies, books and other media.
Here is a highlight of some of the names and what they are from or references to:
Precipice - Refrence to Lights song "Heavy Rope"
The Street And The Cobbler - Reference to the cartoon movie "The Theif And The Cobbler" The Non Signing version. EG: The original/ semi-unfinished work print.
Steele Star - Reference to Canadian actress/singer Cassie Steele.
Shuttleworth Galaxy - Reference to that guy named Mark Shuttleworth Perhaps you know him? :)
Carle Paper Squares - Reference to Eric Carle, Author of the classic "Hungriest Caterpillar" book, this wallpaper mimics the art style sorta.
Down By The Sea - Reference to the "folk" song.
Sandy Bridge - Reference to the processor line by Intel.
Precise Peacock - Reference to Ubuntu 12.04 codename
Maverick Meerkat - Reference to Ubuntu 10.10 codename
Checked Nights - Reference to a race track in Kirby Air Ride. (TM)
Suits You - Reference to a common a saying.
Urban Lines - Reference to "Dashboard Confessional" Song "Standard Lines"
Wooden Plaink-ing - Reference to the weird trend of "Planking"
What It Says On The Tin - Reference to a English saying.
Plaid Cool - Plaid this a style or design, it sounds a lot like the english work "plain" as in "plain cool"
Heavy Bricks - Refrence to Lights song "Heavy Rope" again.
Zee Amped Leather - Zee was added to make it at the bottom of the file list, Amped is a reference to the popular "Amp Energy Drink"(TM) By Pepsi(TM) without which this release probably wouldn't be possible (I'd probably fall asleep or get tired)! :)
Rainy Sunday Mornings - Reference to "Michelle Branch" Song "Tuesday Mornings"
Street Smarts - A saying. Also a old TV show game show?
MetaTrix - A Made up word , but reference to games and applications I wrote back in the day. "Eagle Matrix" (Never released)
Heres a chart of the wallpapers:
We had to name a lot of wallpapers (A lot not even included) and we drew inspiration for those names from many places. Music, People , Movies, books and other media.
Here is a highlight of some of the names and what they are from or references to:
Precipice - Refrence to Lights song "Heavy Rope"
The Street And The Cobbler - Reference to the cartoon movie "The Theif And The Cobbler" The Non Signing version. EG: The original/ semi-unfinished work print.
Steele Star - Reference to Canadian actress/singer Cassie Steele.
Shuttleworth Galaxy - Reference to that guy named Mark Shuttleworth Perhaps you know him? :)
Carle Paper Squares - Reference to Eric Carle, Author of the classic "Hungriest Caterpillar" book, this wallpaper mimics the art style sorta.
Down By The Sea - Reference to the "folk" song.
Sandy Bridge - Reference to the processor line by Intel.
Precise Peacock - Reference to Ubuntu 12.04 codename
Maverick Meerkat - Reference to Ubuntu 10.10 codename
Checked Nights - Reference to a race track in Kirby Air Ride. (TM)
Suits You - Reference to a common a saying.
Urban Lines - Reference to "Dashboard Confessional" Song "Standard Lines"
Wooden Plaink-ing - Reference to the weird trend of "Planking"
What It Says On The Tin - Reference to a English saying.
Plaid Cool - Plaid this a style or design, it sounds a lot like the english work "plain" as in "plain cool"
Heavy Bricks - Refrence to Lights song "Heavy Rope" again.
Zee Amped Leather - Zee was added to make it at the bottom of the file list, Amped is a reference to the popular "Amp Energy Drink"(TM) By Pepsi(TM) without which this release probably wouldn't be possible (I'd probably fall asleep or get tired)! :)
Rainy Sunday Mornings - Reference to "Michelle Branch" Song "Tuesday Mornings"
Street Smarts - A saying. Also a old TV show game show?
MetaTrix - A Made up word , but reference to games and applications I wrote back in the day. "Eagle Matrix" (Never released)
Heres a chart of the wallpapers:
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
RAVEfinity Wallpaper Collection 1 Released! The Story Behind It.
After two years of hard work RAVEfinity is proud to announce the release of one of our semi secret projects! This one has been in the works for such a long time that it understandably comes as a relief to release it!
Design of the Wallpaper Project started in 2010. I saw some "cool" wallpapers included by default in some other operating systems. (That Fruit company and Android to be exact) At the time I didn't see alot of truly free wallpapers for linux. Alot where taken from non-free sources or wheren't very freely licensed. Thats fine I guess but I wanted create some truly free wallpapers for linux. Ones that could rival the quality of those on OSX(TM) , Windows(TM) etc. And be completely free just like linux in the mean time. By free I don't mean you can "Freely download it" I mean you can remix it distribute it and adapt it!
Thus began the process of creating a bunch of high quality wallpapers from scratch!. we decided to be very stubborn...
We pushed a design Idea and goal of:
Wallpapers must be 2560x16000 or 3200x2000+ Only no exceptions.
We Provide multiple colors of many of the wallpapers namely the RAVEfinity Tri-Color Design. Dark Blue, Grey, Purple. The Idea behind these colors is that they are nice on the eyes and calming. Another goal was to have wallpapers that will hopefully appeal to both genders. (Thats why we added grey and purple) compared to some wallpapers that only come in Blue and Grey. Again I am no expert in this but that was the goal.
Wallpapers must look good, clear sharp and have no artifacts.
We went through a lot of wallpapers (That we created from scratch and on our own!)
alot we threw out because of only one small unfix-able imperfection. Or we didn't want to include it. but we tryed to push for the best!
An important thing to note is that every one of these wallpapers is by the RAVEfinity project. We took lots of photos and rendered a lot of CGI to bring you this collection of 250 High quality wallpapers. we did not "barrow" and use wallpapers or images from anywher else. Our project created every single one of these.
We wanted to bring 100% free and open source wallpapers to everyone!
All the wallpapers are licensed under: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike.
So check out the RAVEfinity Wallpaper Collection 1 today! -->
Download now! Spred the word!
We hope to post some of the wallpapers that didn't make the cut as weekly exclusives. on the RAVEfinity Wallpaper Collection homepage. So be sure to bookmark and check that out regularly!
Thank You. We hope you enjoy this release!
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