icon library
i sometimes work on icons (or icon themes). i mostly modify them, i have to say i never created a fully-fledged theme (apart from certain applications that demand their own icon theme like gmusicbrowser or claws-mail)
well, actually that started quite a while ago with that, when i got into xubuntu (yes, i started with that; i rarely used kde or gnome since then) with badger.
i just didn't like the looks of some of the icons, icon themes were (and most still are) inconsistent etc etc. so i started digging into icon themes to find where the icons that annoyed me where at home. back then i could've used something like the icon library! (not to say that it's still handy, even though i now know where most icons are found 
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well anyhoo, i just stumbled across this a second time now so i thought i'd make a post about it just in case i forget again. unfortunately there's not even a starter included (or a howto or anything) in the tarball, so you have to run it from the terminal with "python icon-library.py" (yes, i agree, simple enough).
here's a screenshot so that you know what you're dealing with. amongst the nice features of the programme are a search function, a column that tells you which icons are actually in the theme and which are inherited, an option to change background colors (icons really look different on bright and dark backgrounds) etc.
a screenshot of the main window of the "icon library"
enjoy it!
ps: btw, here's a link to the thread that got me hooked on this (again).
hello world!
the new xubuntu is here!
hello world.
as my first post i'd like to point to the new xubuntu release took place today. it's quite a release i have to say, a lot of underlying changes (ext4, grub2, kernel 2.6.31 etc) and visual polishing (i really dig xubuntu's dark default theme albatross) make it worth the upgrade.
go and get it people - and congratulations to the xubuntu-team for the fantastic job they did!
on a sidenote: i've been testing karmic since alpha 4 and it was quite stable even back then. so i'd assume that it's a very solid release (even though i only tested it on one kind of architecture).