On the whole, this web site, created by former Lila web dude rezza, has served us well. It's got beautiful looks and manages to present important information in a straightforward, easy-to-grasp way. The current forums have been set up in a similarly awesome way and managed to keep the Lila community socialized. rezza, a.k.a. Doug Whiteley, deserves a big thankyou for investing his time and effort into the Lila Center. (and everyone: “thankyou, rezza!”)

However, there were a few things that don't work out so well with our current infrastructure:

• It's more difficult to edit the web site than it could be: you need ssh access to the web server, and must edit the html code manually
• The forums are being spammed to death by stupid spam bots
• plus, we can't upgrade or fix it, because the forums are based on a trial version of the proprietary Invision Power Board.

So recently our community member Christopher Parr (crparr in the forums) stepped up to provide the Lila project with a new web presence. What does that mean for us?

• The new Lila Center is now running on DokuWiki, and all data from the original Lila Center has been migrated.
• The original forums are closed (but still available as a read-only archive), and we're introducing the new Lila forums at http://forums.lila-center.info, powered by FUDforum which also features spam bot prevention capabilities :D
• Both are currently running on crparr's web hosting facilities, and he's also paying the fees for the lila-center.info domain.
• Subversion repository and release tarball downloads are still hosted by BerliOS, which is going to stay that way for the indefinite future.

Feel free to register in the forums or also on the wiki, in order to socialize and improve things. I hope you like the new style of the Lila Center - if you find that something needs further improvements, we are eager to hear your input. Now it's up to you (and me) to get the community rolling again... let's have a great start with our new web infrastructure!

If you love 'emerge' and you have been losing sleep because of the discontinuation of our ebuilds for Gentoo, your unlucky days are over now: Thanks to Christian Lemke (ChL in the forums), the Lila ebuilds have been brought back to life!

Not only has he worked hard to test all of them and fix the broken ones, but he also claimed maintainership over the ebuilds, the overlay and the liladdiction script. He made new ebuilds for the current KDE icons and Audicious, the successor of the XMMS-forked Beep media player, and even created some new color mods for packages that have been purple-only by now.

As you would expect, all of that great stuff is available on the downloads page. Grab it while it's hot!

Before announcing the new lila-kde release, I need to get this out:
All of the other Lila developers have disappeared over time, so currently there is only me (jpetso) left working on the icons. As I'm just doing the KDE version of the icon set (and have neither time nor motivation to take care of the other ports) the GNOME icons and all the other neat packages have essentially been unmaintained for a year or longer.

If you want to ensure the continued greatness of the Lila artwork, now is the time to join the project and claim maintainership for one or two of the packages. In most cases that doesn't even mean that you need proficient drawing skills, it's just important to have the packages tested on current platforms, copy some of the existing icons in order to stay current, and put out a release every now and then.

Also, updating the Gentoo ebuilds, install script and overlay has been discontinued due to lack of manpower. If you want to resurrect the overlay and know how to do it, I'll gladly accept your help.

Every form of assistance is appreciated. If you're interested in keeping Lila alive, please contact me through the forums where we can work out a way to get things running again.

Despite the above, I have managed to get out a new lila-kde release. It catches up on KDE 3.5 by filling the most urgent icon gaps. In addition to many detail improvements there are also a few new icons, most notably Konversation, Kile and (tada!) amaroK.

This will probably be the last release for the KDE 3 series, future work should go into porting the KDE icons (and maybe a few GNOME ones) to the Tango icon naming specification which will be the foundation for both future GNOME and KDE versions.

From this release on, the lila-kde and lila-kde-splash releases are available only from the BerliOS download page, our own downloads page only links to that one. You can still get all other Lila packages from the downloads page and praise or complain about all of that in the forums.

Quite a few people were obviously searching for a Lila themed KDE splash screen. Really, I had no choice but create one that replaces the previous official splash by telex. Hopefully it satisfies many people that would otherwise long for a splash screen in original Lila design and colors.

Perhaps you already guessed it, but the splash screen can again be found at the downloads page (for the ones who don't know yet). It's also available on kde-look together with a preview. Enjoy, or don't!

It might get pretty hard in the future to find a window manager without a suitable Lila theme available. The Lila project has now taken control over IceWM with a new theme by hollywoodb, further reducing the amount of Lila-less window managers.

The theme can be found at the downloads page (as always), and for the sceptical ones amongst you there's also a screenshot available in the screenshots section (at the bottom of the page). If you like the theme, you might want to report back to hollywoodb and express your thoughts with a forum post in the IceWM theme thread.

A good number of new or improved icons in Lila-KDE are an excellent reason for pushing out a new release nicely named lila-kde 0.8.1. As you'd expect it, there are updated ChangeLog and TODO files. Cool new stuff includes a more complete Konqueror, new icons for USB drives, Superkaramba (since v0.37), Gwenview, and many more. All the icons are now also available in a new white color mod (well, in fact the mod is quite old, but it has never been used for the KDE version and has its comeback now).

Users of Ubuntu, Debian, SuSE and other non-Gentoo distributions will be pleased by the fact that most Gentoo specific icons have been replaced by generic ones - for those who loved them, there is the plan to stuff them into small expansion sets for different distros.

There is a new overlay again (containing also the color mods this time) which is available through the downloads page, as well as the new tarballs and ebuilds. You can now get the color mods from there too instead of just browsing the directory structure.

Don't forget to visit the lila-kde forum thread in case you have something to say about it!

Once again, the KDE icon set has had some more polish - a few important KDE applications got their own unique icon, also a lot of other icons were added or improved. The new release is called lila-kde 0.8 and should get along quite well with KDE 3.4.

You can check out the ChangeLog or get the tarball and ebuild right away from the downloads page. Thanks to 9-speed, the overlay snapshot there has been updated too.

A script by andrewski (using svg-utils, naturally) made automated generation of color mods possible. Although the color modded ebuilds are not contained in the overlay snapshot, you can still get lila-kde-blue (ebuild) and lila-kde-red (ebuild) by downloading them directly. If you want new color mods, you just have to provide me with an appropriate XML file for svg-utils (for example, by posting it to the lila-kde forum thread).

Now go and enjoy this fine release!

It turns out we have to learn a thing or two about ebuilds! Luckily, murraytony pointed us on the mistake we made in the latest lila-kde ebuild that caused the 0.7.2-r1 updated ebuild not really updating your icons.
The lila-kde package and ebuild has version 0.7.3 now.

New overlay, ebuild and tarball can again be found on the downloads page. Have fun!

Release Notes :: 2005-02-14

There has been some work on the gnome-icons in the last months so it time for an update!

Updated packages:

• lila-gnome-0.6.3 :: There have been a lot of icons added again thanks to the effort of the people submitting icons. For a list of changes you can view the Changelog. Also many more icons that still contained the fill opacity bug have been fixed in this release.
• lila-gtk-0.5.5 :: Some icons for the terminal emulator Terminal have been added. Also support for Xfmedia, Balsa and gmpc has been added.
• lila-backgrounds-0.3.4 :: Some color fixes to make them work with svg-utils.
• lila-kde-0.7.2-r1 :: See previous news post.

Overlay, ebuilds and tarballs can now be found on the downloads page. Have fun!

Thanks to jpetso, who took the job of maintaining the KDE icon set, we now updated the KDE icons. He added lots of new icons from the gnome theme and also moved some things around. For a complete overview of the changes, have a look at the Changelog.

You can download and test the updated set and the ebuild here. Please report any problems in the forums.

Jpetso also made the request for some new icons the KDE theme still lacks. So if you feel you need to showcase your graphical skills, take a look at the list of icons that are needed and submit your creations to the icon submission topic.

EDIT: jpetso himself already found some bugs and fixed them right away! The package available through the download page has therefore been updated to bugfix release 0.7.2-r1 which also contains a few new icons.

Finally, thanks to one of our frequent forum visitors, Garrett fixed the bug that caused Firefox with the Lila Firefox GTK+ theme to crash when right clicking on an item in the downloads list.

Get the fixed Lila Firefox theme here!

Release Notes :: 2004-12-17

It's been quite a while since the last release, but we have all been a bit busy :)
I'd like to thank everyone who contributed to this release and helped to enlarge and improve Lila.

New packages:

• lila-cursors-0.5 :: Pinux created a beautiful cursor theme for Lila. In this package included are the purple, white and black (dark purple) versions. The complete set with more colors is available at GNOME-Look.org. Please also see the corresponding thread on the forums.

Updated packages:

• lila-firefox-1.7 :: Brian Carper updated his great Firefox theme. It now works flawlessly with Firefox 1.0.
• lila-firefox-gtk-0.5.7 :: Synced with the latest version of Garret LeSage's Industrial for Firefox theme.
• lila-gdm-0.3.4 :: Added the nice GDM Theme by Dvornik. It can also be found on GNOME-Look.org.
• lila-gnome-0.6.2 :: Lots of submitted icons have been added. Most notably the icons for Xfce. The Inkscape fill opacity bug in many of our icons has been fixed.
• lila-gtk-0.5.4 :: Updated to reflect changes in the GNOME icon set.
• lila-gtk-extras-0.4.5 :: Updated to reflect changes in the GNOME icon set

Overlay, ebuilds and tarballs can now be found on the downloads page. Have fun!

The 'lila-gtk' and 'lila-gtk-extras' packages have been updated to properly show the Lila icons in gVim. Thanks to andrewski for fixing this issue.

Edit: The new overlay is added now. It has been packaged by 9-speed and he will also provide the overlays in the future, so you ought to fetch his GPG key. See the documentation for details on how to do that.

Garrett LeSage released an update for his Industrial for Firefox theme. As the Lila Firefox GTK+ theme is just a copy of that theme with Lila icons, we updated too!

Get it at the downloads section.

Edit: Garrett is fast, he updated again!! We are right behind him, so we did too :)

Brian Carper has updated his Firefox theme to make it work with Firefox 1.0 PR. Thanks a lot!
The theme is now also available on our downloads page.

Release Notes :: 2004-10-17

This is a minor release with some improvements and bugfixes.

New packages:

• svg-utils-0.1 :: The overlay now contains an ebuild for SVG-Utils with which one can easily change colors of SVG icons.

Updated packages:

• lila-firefox-gtk-0.4.2 :: Merged with latest version Industrial Firefox theme.
• lila-gnome-0.6.1 :: Adds a couple of new icons. Quite a few have been edited, mostly to rectify colors.
• lila-gtk-0.5.1 :: GTK+ part of the themes have been unified and improved (based on Glider).
• lila-xfwm-0.3.2 :: A titlebar bug has been fixed. See this topic on the forums for more information.

Overlay, ebuilds and tarballs can be found on the downloads page. Have fun!

Edit: Fixed an error with the URL in the -gnome and -gtk ebuilds. Thanks to andrewski for pointing this out.

As the old Lila Firefox theme did not work with the 1.0 Firefox release we created a new Lila theme for Firefox. This new theme works very well for Lila-Industrial GTK+ theme users as it is based on the Industrial for Firefox theme by Garrett LeSage. But it takes some of your current GTK+ theme settings, so it looks good for other GTK+ themes as well.

Go to the downloads section to check it out!

Release Notes :: 2004-09-20

With today's release some changes have taken place. Most noticeably is the drop of our color mods. This decision has been made because of lack of time and developers. It is left to the users to create their own color mods with any colors the wish. This can be achieved best with SVG-Utils. Documentation and utilities can be found on Daniel G. Taylor's website.

There have also been a few name changes in an attempt to unify things. The eclass and the predigested overlays are now called "lila-theme" instead of "lila-artwork". Furthermore, "lila-xfwm4" is now called "lila-xfwm" and "lila-xfce4-panel" is "lila-xfce-panel".

Because of these name changes, it is adviseable to unmerge any installed Lila packages and to clean out your portdir_overlay directory before using the new overlay and ebuilds.


Following is a list of new and updated packages with a short summary each.

New packages:

• lila-gensplash-0.1 :: Modified version of the bootsplash package to make it work with the increasingly popular splashutils.

Updated packages:

• lila-backgrounds-0.3.3 :: The images from the dropped green version have been converted to purple.
• lila-bootsplash-0.2.1 :: Minor update to reflect name changes caused by the drop of the color mods.
• lila-gdm-0.3.3 :: Minor update of the themes to unify things and make maintainance easier.
• lila-gnome-0.6 :: Fairly large icon update. Many icons have been edited. Some cleanup and rectifications as well.
• lila-gtk-0.5 :: Major overhaul of the package. Now sporting two completely new themes called GorLila and Simply Lila.
• lila-gtk-extras-0.4.2 :: Small update to reflect the changes made in the icon set.
• lila-smilies-0.34 :: Overhaul of the package. All smilies have been updated.

Edit: There has been a glitch in lila-xfce-panel and lila-xfwm. It's fixed and new tarballs are uploaded. In case you already fetched the overlay and intend to use those themes please download it again.

The KDE icon set needs a new maintainer. If someone using KDE is interested in the job or wants to have more info about it, please contact any one of the staff members on the forums or drop by on #svg-icons on freenode and talk to one of the before mentioned. Thanks.

A new snapshot is available. It fixes the digest/download problem with lila-gnome-0.5.1.
It also includes lila-backgrounds-0.3.2 which fixes a glitch in lila-round and has gentoo-round removed.

The Lila theme forums are up and running. Hit the forum link on the left there to access them.

If you have any questions etc then feel free to sign up and post.

It looks like this script works well enough for now, so if you want to submit any news, please use the above link.