Probably you know Chakra Project ! the one of most popular linux distros based on Arch Linux which come with latest KDE desktop. anyway… (more informations)

after more than 1 year, after Neda artwork set, in next release of chakra (will released 12 february 2012) you can see a big change in artwork section. our new artwork set called Ronak (a kurdish name for girls that means “Light”) which includes wallpaper, Plasma Theme, KDM, Ksplash. best news in this release is we have 2 version for Ronak Artwork, a Light version that comes with colorful artwork set and a Dark version for users who love dark desktop that the dark one is default after installation and also users can change that to light theme with accessible tools in “System Settings”.

Ronak is in Testing repository! you can install and use it before Chakra Archimedes (2012.2) release and report probably bugs.

In Artwork section of Chakra now we have 2 artist and 1 maintainer (me). special thanks to my best friend “Shahrzad” who design both of wallpapers in dark and light version and “David” who design Plasma Theme for Ronak. and it’s my proud to introduce Chakra Artwork Team with these guys. im glad to work with this team and we promise to you and users that we will be more active in next releases

P.S : We, me and Shahrzad present this package to all users who love Chakra and we present it to our people in Iran that love the world and wish the peace for all around the world…

in this post and this post , i wrote that im working on chakra project beta 1 artwork which called NEDA ! already its wallpaper and kdm theme designed and finally yesterday and last night i finished ksplash theme , chakra alpha 5 ksplash is based on a theme in kde-look with oxygen-icons like kde4 default kdm that i change the wallpaper ! and now in this theme we have our exclusive images that designed by me.

in chakra philosophy “Chakra is a concept referring to wheel-like vortices which, according to traditional Indian medicine” . in this theme i tryed to design “chakra wheel like loading” and until releasing beta 1 I will try to improve it. you can see this theme is this video clip in YouTube (or bottom of this post) or download it

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as you know , recenly new version of chakra , chakra panora (alpha5) released and now after 2 weeks after releasing panora , its developers announced the release of Chakra-Micro (just preview release). this version is compatible with netbooks and small devices and made for tiny computers using the Plasma Netbook as default user shell fitting perfectly on a 1 GB USB-Stick (download here)

Features in this new release:

- Kernel 2.6.33 series

- Xorg-Server 1.7.6

- Catalyst-10.4 – yep, we have it again

- NVidia-195 and NVidia legancy series

- hardware-detection updated

- Go-Openoffice 3.2

- DigiKam, gwenview and kipi-plugins to manage your digital cameras and photos

- A wide selection of KDE software

so if you are in our test squad team or one of chakra user, you can test this release wherever possible, and most of all, on real hardware. Report bugs, or even better send us patches and share your ideas. The place where all of this happens is our Bugtracker, please be sure to register on it. Also check our Wiki, a lot of questions are already answered. Read our tutorial how to get it on your USB-Sticks.

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After lots of testing and rebuilds we are finally there. Panora left the building and is ready to get a new home on your boxes. Special thanks goes out to our bug-squad for helping us in this crazy adventure. Without you guys we couldn’t fix all the bugs, testing all the new features we added.

We focused our efforts on two aspects mainly:

Tribe our installer, now includes an easy & advanced mode to partition the target, also the installation speed has been much approved and supports lower screen resolutions (starting with 800×600).

The usability of the Chakra LiveCDs we added support for some important features:

- print, and configure printers

- complete management of optic drives, now you can extract sound from CD/DVD’s and write medias with k3b and virtually mount iso images

- drop-down konsole with Yakuake

- management of dial-up modems and broadband USB 3g/HSDPA with knetworkmanager & modemmanager

- a lot of new languages were added to the boot menu, to automatically configure your keyboard and locale settings in live mode

Features:

• Kernel-2.6.32.10-1chakra with lzma support
• aufs2-20091203-2chakra
• KDEmod 4.4.1
• Chakra tools updated (aqpm2, shaman2)
• Xorg-Server 1.7.5.902
• Catalyst support temp. dropped
• NVidia-190 and NVidia legancy series are the only propertary drivers atm
• added lots of new languages to bootmenu
• using ARM state (2010.03.26)

This time our ISOs are not pached so you have to do it yourself before copying it to your USB-Sticks. Read how you can do this in our wiki

For our beginners Anke Boersma wrote a nice beginners guide including how to setup Chakra besides Windows.

All in all it was a hell of a ride getting this release out. Manuel Tortosa, thx for keeping up with me. We made a nice team here. Also thx to Roozbeh Shafiee for your awesome designs you did and do for our project.

Special thanks goes out to our bug-squad for helping us in this crazy adventure. Without you guys we couldn’t fix all the bugs, testing all the new features we added.

You can download our images from our Sourceforge-Page or here.

for more information see here

Chakra-Project.org

Happy new year (Norooz) to all of my friend in Iran gnu/linux community .
these days we are working hard on chakra project next release… unfortunately we have no time for working on NEDA artwork and we forced to use Galaxair artwork for chakra alpha 5 that comes in 31 march 2010 . this planning is good for me for working more on NEDA theme and it will be ready for Chakra Beta 1 . and now I designed NEDA KDM theme and it’s installed on my box (it’s not mockup) .

this theme is exclusive for chakra project and after beta 1 release , you can download it from kde-look for other distros…

also im working on new design of Tribe user interface (chakra graphical installer) . this design is planed for chakra alpha 5 . in next blog post i published its screenshots…

probably you know chakra project ! a distrolet based on archlinux , after about 2 mounth working on artwork of chakra (of course not non-stop) today i finished it and it is ready to use for next release of chakra project… NEDA theme is contain Wallpaper , KDM , KSplash , Plasma theme , also im working on plymouth theme for more integration of all part of chakra together.

plasma theme is new in chakra and in previous releases we used default kde plasma theme . this theme is based on Dark Air and we changed it a bit , like white font instead black font and some widgets replaced and etc…

this is a preview of chakra with NEDA theme and artwork and more screenshots will publish here (in this blog) later , today is Norooz (persian new year) and im going to vacation

Recently , about 2 mounths ago I designed 3 splash screen for amarok 2.3 , but because I didn’t start my blog that time I couldn’t publish my splashes so i published them only on amarok web site (here) .after selecting this splash for amarok 2.3 , finally tonight i found time and deside publish my splashes officialy here , on my blog for public showing and use for customing your amarok splash screen… I hope to select these for Amarok 2.3.x

Download All Free Layers Of Splashes…

P.S: these days im working on Chakra Artwork for new release (Alpha 5) and also being ready for Persian New Year that called Norooz (in 20 March)….

Also I have many idea for KDE 4.5 Artwork , I hope to contribute with KDE Artwork team and nuno pinheiro

Finally the GalaxAir Style Set designed by me yesterday…

GalaxAir is a word that contain Galaxy + Air (default KDE style) that I named my artwork for new version of chakra gnu/linux

you can see these artwork here :

Chakra Project Beta 1 GalaxAir Artwork (KDM , Ksplash , Wallpaper)

Chakra Project Beta 1 GalaxAir Desktop View

also you can follow other user’s comment about this post in Chakra Project Forum and persian users in my persian weblog, here