{"id":177,"date":"2015-06-24T10:09:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T10:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/?p=177"},"modified":"2016-09-14T19:07:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T19:07:22","slug":"borealis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/borealis\/","title":{"rendered":"Borealis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Borealis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-662 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Borealis.jpg\" alt=\"Borealis\" width=\"730\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Borealis.jpg 730w, https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Borealis-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2004 I composed a sound theme for the KDE desktop environment and posted it on now defunct\u00a0kde-look.org. <em>Borealis<\/em>\u00a0soon became the top rated theme and to this day remains one of the top themes with the largest (~300K) number of downloads. Over the years, components of the theme were\u00a0licensed for a number of projects including Gnome and Ubuntu Studio. In 2008, the theme also served as the foundation for a commission from the now defunct SUN Microsystems Inc. where I was tasked to design a collection of sound themes for the (now also defunct) Open Solaris project.<\/p>\n<p>Licensing History:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Portions commissioned by Gregoire Gentil for utilization in an internal software project, August 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Selected as the default theme for the UbuntuStudio 7.04-10.10 distribution, January 2007-October 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Selected as the default theme for the Dropline GNOME project, December 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Featured in the \u201cLet it Beep\u201d by Scott Carr, May 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Served as the foundation for the Open Solaris commission by the now defunct SUN Microsystems Inc., 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Licensed by <em>Fididel Inc<\/em>, March 2, 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download:<\/p>\n<table style=\"display: inline-block; border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/Linux\/Borealis_soundtheme\/Borealis_sound_theme-0.9a.tar.bz2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-237 size-full\" title=\"Borealis (WAV format)\" src=\"http:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Download-icon-2.png\" alt=\"Borealis (WAV format)\" width=\"65\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/Linux\/Borealis_soundtheme\/Borealis_sound_theme-0.9a.tar.bz2\"><br \/>\nWAV<\/a><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/Linux\/Borealis_soundtheme\/Borealis_sound_theme_ogg-0.9a.tar.bz2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-237 size-full\" title=\"Borealis (OGG format)\" src=\"http:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Download-icon-2.png\" alt=\"Borealis (OGG format)\" width=\"65\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/Linux\/Borealis_soundtheme\/Borealis_sound_theme-0.9a.tar.bz2\"><br \/>\nOGG<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2004 I composed a sound theme for the KDE desktop environment and posted it on now defunct\u00a0kde-look.org. 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Over the years, components of the theme were\u00a0licensed for a number of projects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,3,97],"tags":[69,70,71,72,73,74],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-portfolio","category-software","tag-69","tag-borealis","tag-desktop-sound-theme","tag-kde","tag-open-solaris","tag-sun-microsystems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}