But yes. building another color pallet tough choice on the colour. I'd have no issues manipulating the files or the Desktop / grub image colours. Most tedious part would be the widgets. But most of the ground work is already done.

Edit:
I've got two colour variations in the works. I have a couple discrepancies I'll have to track down. Definitely not ready. One theme the widgets (Check boxes and the like are still Cinnabar.) The other I have some gtk3 text that is slightly out. Sigh, I flipped too many switches now I have to figure out where I went wrong. I am tweaking the openbox themes yet. I'm kinda liking what this is looking like. I've just icons and wallpapers to work on. I did the xfwm4 title bars no problem.

@golinux Where should I dump the themes I am working on? Once they get close to 'complete' I would like to get some feed back, maybe some help. I am fairly certain the more I look at it the more I will tweak it that was a good suggestion in the guide.

I am professional designer with plenty of experience also with open-source tools, I am willing to help but I can't focus on this task: I forgot the meaning of free-time; but I can surely mentoring and help with tips and recommendation who want working on this even if he/she feels doesn't have enough experience or skills in the design field.

... as a caution to never make assumptions ...

As a human, guilty as charged.
But (just for fun) allow me to argue in my defense.  8^) 

As I reflected on your reply, I immediately recalled having both seen your post with the chimaera 'fish' photo (strangest I have ever seen, no fin tail) and its being the inspiration to Devuan's current theme, which I hope we keep for the long run.

But here's the thing®: the word chimarea has been in my head for ~ 50 years or more, always associated to a mythical/impossible beast of some sort.
A great many variations have been put forth, most of them take the idea of impossible to really great lengths.

A more reasonable lion headed, winged dragon with horns and two front legs comes to mind.
Nice ...
But never actually seen one, not even in photos.

Which is not the case with the chimaera 'fish' which I assume (again) is real for there are videos/photos etc. which would support its existence.

In my mind (ymmv) if it is real it cannot be a chimaera, hence my (all too human) assumption.

Quite so. 8^D

Thanks for the heads up.
Have a good week-end.

Best,

A.

. . . Then each release would have a distinct 'seal' so to speak, all seals designed according to a certain defined style.  eg: Beowulf the head of the mythical hero, chimaera the head of the mythical beast, an so on.

Just wanted to clarify one thing here as a caution to never make assumptions (which humans all too often do). The chimaera that inspired the "deepsea" theme should have been a clue that it wasn't the chimaera described above.  It was the pointy-nosed blue chimaera Hydrolagus trolli.    Nice video at the bottom . . .

There can be no doubt about that.

No, I don't think so.

I for one find it to be an essential part of human existence/experience.
Now and 64K years ago.
From the Maltravieso cave in Spain to Rembrandt's Night Watch, any Turner, Modigliani, Klimt or Schiele, just to name a few. 

Please do count me among them.

Indeed.
I fully agree with that.

Thank you for that.
Hopefully, I may eventually be able to contribute more.

Best,

A.

Hello:

golinux wrote:

. . . with one caveat. An associated color identity for each release is helpful.

Yes ...

But as helpful as it may be, (in my opinion, ymmv) I think the amount of work involved is a luxury we cannot afford.

I took on that burden because I am an extremely visual person.  And yes it is (or was) a labor of love for Devuan to be beautiful (IMO) as well as functional.

This is also true.  Yet in all the bike-shedding that is currently going on, except for aitor, not one comment has come from a Devuan contributor (afaik).

Isn't all art ultimately "unnecessary".  Yet, it has a purpose.  Jaromil understands this.  All I know is that my efforts have been appreciated by many Devuan users.

Heaven help us all . . .

Yes, the release name could be added to the wallpaper and elsewhere.  We have already been mulling over just continuing with Chimaera theming going forward.

Just text would be sufficient or we will be in perpetual bike-shedding . . .

Your input is appreciated. 

Yes ...

But as helpful as it may be, (in my opinion, ymmv) I think the amount of work involved is a luxury we cannot afford.
There's more than enough for Devuan to do as things stand to just continue existing.

ie: golinux's brave efforts are pointed at something that is excessively burdensome, complex and (again, imo) unnecessary.

Devuan could, for example, decide on a trademark/specific colour on which we could all vote. (cringes at the prospect ...)
Then each release would have a distict 'seal' so to speak, all seals designed according to a certain defined style.

eg: Beowulf the head of the mythical hero, chimaera the head of the mythical beast, an so on.

There would then be only one thing to change: the 'seal' for each release, like the back side of conmemorative coins, within certain pre-established design parameters.

Now, if that causes any confusion, you could just add a whole number after/above/below it and use uname -a to get the details.

Just an idea.

Best,

A.

Why not just stick to what we have(?).

Exactly . . . with one caveat. An associated color identity for each release is helpful.  Recycling them as the official release default is likely to cause confusion.

As to the layout . . . no need to change it at all.

That is one possibility but not really the best solution. In any case . . . I understand all the themes are working in Daedalus.  If at some point that changes or if Xfce becomes unworkable, it will be back to square one.

Why do we need to keep on changing it(?).

You could always include the release name in small letters at the bottom right or left of the 'official' background.
(If you wanted it identifying as a new release).

I'm not certain where devuan wants to be. If it were me, and it isn't, I'd suggest that devuan operate with offering a single branded DE that is minimalist in nature. Because Devuan is more akin to Debian than anything else that could be xfce.

Isn't that what we've been doing for the last 7 years.  All Devuan artwork for Jessie, ASCII, Beowulf and Chimeaera is here.  That includes theming for the Xfce desktop.

If there's any objective to increase the user base for Devuan then IMO more wallpaper choices should be a priority.

Devuan's objective is to provide Debian without systemd.  We are not interested in marketing. Our original intention was to provide a minimal system!  If fsmithred hadn't stepped up to do the live isos and I hadn't gone down the rabbit hole with Hellekin and others to put together the theming and logo etc., there would only have been default desktop theming.