Dear etch-a-sketch-lovers. Or basically, anyone who cares about etch hopefully being released in december.

If you aren’t busy with fixing RC bugs, probably because you don’t trust your own skills enough (or don’t have upload privileges, or are taking a break of your favourite BSP) - how about working on Debian artwork?

Ubuntu is working on their artwork for Edgy. I’d love Debian to have (optionally) some cool Debian look. I mean, we’ll probably be never as polished as Ubuntu artwork-wise, but we sure could do a lot better than now. That is, do at least something…

You don’t need to be a DD to work on this. You can just use the existing linux theming web pages such as art.gnome.org, Gnome-look.org and KDE-look.org to share your artwork, and maybe use the Debian Wiki to coordinate your efforts. If enough people are interested, you probably can organize a mailing list, too.

P.S. Although the release will be codenamed “etch”, there is no need to make the default desktop look like an etch-a-sketch. Just make it something smooth… ;-)

[Update: The EtchGNOME status page lists “update desktop-base” as work in progress. This is where the artwork will be “deployed”. However, KDE and XFCE integration is still a bit lacking apparently.]

[Update #2: Because it was mentioned like that on DWN: I’m not talking about background images only. Artwork is much more. There are some splash screens, icons, window manager themes etc.]

[Update #3: yes, this includes CD cover artwork. Thanks, Johannes.]