Free art software for linux

GNOME Art is a frontend for art.gnome.org.

The GNOME Art Collection written in ruby is a collection of tools for managing art from the art.gnome.org website.

GNOME Art is the graphical frontend for art.gnome.org. Backgrounds and all themes can be downloaded and previewed. Backgrounds, icon themes and splash screens can be installed directly.

GNOME Splash Screen Manager is for managing the splash screens of the GNOME desktop.

Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D graphics studio.

Art of Illusion combines modelling, animation, texturing and rendering in one application, with advanced features which compare favorably to those found in many commercial programs.

Art of Illusion is written entirely in Java. It should (in theory) work under any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which is compatible with Suns Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.4 or later.

Album Cover Art Downloader will go through your collection of music albums and for each one download a set of matching cover images for you to choose from.

The project makes the selected image usable for programs such as KDE, Windows Media Player, etc.

Warsow is a standalone first person shooter for Windows and Linux.
It offers eSport oriented FPS, fast-paced gameplay focused on trix (trick jumps) and the art of move. It offers a complete Power-up System including Weak and Strong fire mode for each weapon.
The graphics are in a cartoonish style with celshading-like_but_not_Manga style, mixing dark, flashy and dirty textures, matching the action full of fun and speed. The game got some of its inspiration from titles like Quakeworld, Quake3 CPMA, Jet Set Radio or Speedball.
Main features:
- Standalone game for Windows and Linux ;
- 3D Engine based on Qfusion (a modification of Quake 2 GPL engine) ;
- eSport oriented FPS ;
- Fast-paced gameplay focused on trix (trick jumps) and art of move ;
- Complete Power-up System including Weak and Strong fire mode for each weapon ;
- Cartoonish graphics with celshading-like_but_not_Manga style, mixing dark, flashy and dirty textures, matching with action full of fun and speed ;
- References : Quakeworld, Quake3 CPMA, Jet Set Radio, Speedball.
Enhancements:
- While the main focus of this release was to fix several bad bugs, there have also been some adjustments to maps, as well as several new features and engine enhancements.

Sonata is a lightweight GTK+ music client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). Sonata aims to be efficient (no toolbar, main menu, or statusbar), user-friendly, and clean.
Sonata is licensed by the GPL and is free software. It has been forked from the Pygmy project in order to fix bugs, introduce new features, and proceed down a different path.
Main features:
- Expanded and collapsed views
- Automatic album art retrieval (with alternatives)
- Playlist and Library tabs
- System tray icon with tooltip
- Keyboard friendly
- Repeat, shuffle, volume control, etc.

Aalib is a portable ascii art GFX library.I vote for simplicity. There are many problems of various kinds with video cards, low frequency monitors, crashing graphical apps@dots{} AA-lib IS the solution. It works on a terminal of any kind, it is fast and portable, it gives to you standard API. It makes your old hardware more powerfull.
AA-lib is a low level gfx library just as many other libraries are. The main difference is that AA-lib does not require graphics device. In fact, there is no graphical output possible. AA-lib replaces those old-fashioned output methods with powerful ascii-art renderer. Now my linux boots with a nice penguin logo at secondary display (yes! Like Win95 does:) AA-lib API is designed to be similar to other graphics libraries. Learning a new API would be a piece of cake!
Once upon a time weve (my friend Kamil and I) bought two old Herculeses as secondary monitors. We didnt know for that time that our Diamond Stealths 64 cards would become obsolete soon. The next day we downloaded the logo of Linux Texas Users Group - nice silly penguin looking like a cowboy! It was so exciting logo ... we decided that we couldnt live without it and we wanted to see it at boot time as a logo on our secondary monitors. There was a small problem - Hercules doesnt support color graphics. So we decided to convert the penguin image to ascii art using netpbm tools.
The output was very ugly because the converting algorithm was absolutly stupid. During the night I designed a new convertor that used a font bitmap to creat an aproximation table. The output wasnt very good since the algorithm wasnt tuned so well. Many months this small piece of code was waiting on my disc for the day "D". Meanwhile I started a new project XaoS (a fractal zoomer) with my friend Thomas. And then I got an idea: Ascii Art Mandelbrots! I was really impressed by the result! XaoS was faster, portable and looking much better than ever before. I found a new way to go @dots{}
Enhancements:
- Automake/libtools/autoconf updated.
- Package restructured
- Some bugfixes.
- New "raw" keyboard driver for linux console alowing to detect key releases.
- Fixed -malign-double gcc binarry compatibility problem
- Added const keywords to sources where possible.
- AAlib.h documented
- Lots of fixes from Debian maitainer Joey Hess installed
- c2man generated manual pages added
- Rest of changelog was lost in the disc crash....
- Fixed X driver handling of refresh
- Optimized X driver
- X driver now allows setting font using AAFont environment variable
- Added aalib-config

amaroK is a soundsystem-independent audio-player for *nix. amaroKs interface uses a powerful "browser" metaphor that allows you to create playlists that make the most of your music collection. We have a fast development-cycle and super happy users. We also provide pensions and other employment benefits.
"Easily the best media-player for Linux at the moment. Install it now!"
- Linux Format Magazine
Main features:
- Quick and simple drag and drop playlist creation
- Music library (built-in sqlite or MySQL)
- Multiple backends supported (GStreamer, xine, NMM, MAS and aRts)
- 10 band equalizer
- Automatic cover art download using Amazon services
- The unique and powerful context browser
- Automatic play-statistics generation (iRate style)
- Full lyrics download
- Full Audioscrobbler support
- Visualisations with libvisual
- Streaming from any KIO source
- Crossfading
- Fully configurable OSD for track changes
- K3B (CD-burning) integration
- KDE integration

OpenArena is an open-source content package for Quake III Arena licensed under the GPL, effectively creating a free stand-alone game.

The art direction of Open Arena is about "double" as Quake III Arena:

- double texture resolution, i.e. 512x512 as opposed to a 256x256
- double the polycount of models, instead of 700-900 youll have 1200-2000 poly players
- Sound is probably mixed in 44khz rather than 22khz, but I dunno about that as 44khz seems to crash Q3A at this moment

Hopefully the detail should still be scalable with texture resolution and LoDs for slower computers (read: my p100 with voodoo2)

Concepts would be loose, so dont expect a remake of Klesk in his original Klesk form, or any direct remakes of any map/weapon/model.