@prospero . . . Thanks for your insight. Made my day!

@ greenjeans . . . There are detailed instructions for theming Xfce HERE. Maybe that will give you some hints of what might need to be done on Mate if you want to play with it. Don't panic!  Most of it it for theming ALL parts of a new release, not just the default desktop . . . unless you want to be a hero . . .

You completely missed the point of my comment . . .

They are stupid and ugly and for lower life forms . . .

@zapper . . . Thanks. The colors are subtle and really pop out when it is full screen

Hey greenjeans . . . I have an idea that you may or may not like. I created a desktop background graphic for excalibur. It is an anti-war statement named "deathmetal". It combines the dark metal of a sword (I looked at a LOT of them) with a tinge of "gangrene" which is a possible result to the victim. Feel free to use it if you like. If it doesn't suit you, that's fine too.

https://git.devuan.org/devuan/documenta … rge-M2.svg

I tried to get someone to further develp that theme but no takers.

And in you, igorzwx, a symptom of delusional arrogance on steroids.

That graphic also keeps morphing as new systemd dependencies are introduced. Something like the green slime . . . LOL!

@32bits . . . Thank you for your interesting thoughts and also the "French" refresher course (which I could still read).

You asked about why/how we have chosen our release names. One of our first developers was an astronomer. So we decided to pick our release names from the list of Minor Planet Names. The list is very long so we knew we wouldn't run out of options! There are names there from many cultures but it is true that we have gravitated to more European and Latin-based choices and that has become part of our identity . . .

Escalibur does not exist. Try excalibur.

I couldn't understand what he was saying, silly!

Welcome to Devuan, Codalunga!

Devuan's fiscal sponsor is dyne.org so that would be a question for them to answer. I have sent an email on another matter so will ask them to also answer your question.

However . . . Devuan needs more than financial support. Please consider volunteering your technical talents to devuan development if you have the skills to do so.

DONE!