The Linux Desktop Thread

[NecroScumBag]

Hey all, sorry about all trouble... Umm I know this has probly alrdy been posted. But would someone give me a quick run down on the board recommendation and policy on post images. Plus a couple possible good image host sites i could use. All i did was to use the first image host site that poped from a google search.

Thanks all! ! Slackware ROX's. But it does have issues tho.

[Grogan]

There's not really a policy on posting images. (No nerps or genitals though). Those free file hosting sites generally tend to suck because they expose people to advertising crap that's completely beyond your control (and varies... you'll never know what people are going to see).

You could use our gallery here. In the top menu you'll see a drop list called Extras and in that submenu you will see BBF Gallery which leads to our Photopost gallery ( http://www.bitbenderforums.com/photopost/ ). Certainly better than using those file hosting sites.

This is not so great for screenshots, but if the picture is 800 pixels wide or less, you can post it as an attachment in your forum post. (As Zemuss has done)

Or, for a small fee that goes towards paying for the server, you could get your very own web hosting directory here at BBF.

[~Jan~]

Hey I saw this and thought of you guys. :) Now most likely you may have already seen it but just in case you haven't..... Someone was using it for their desktop and so I just cropped it to show you all. ;)

http://sensuoussummons.com/BBT/linux1.jpg

Hey Peter, I do like your new avy. :thumbsup:

[Grogan]

If Microsoft made vacuum cleaners, they wouldn't suck :-)

[~Jan~]

:lol: Now that's bad!! ;)

[[ GK ]]

Hey Peter, I do like your new avy. :thumbsup:
Thanks Jan!
I think it's perfect for me. I really like Linux, but I'm a bit confused. :lol:

[NecroScumBag]

Ya GK I ike the AV... That sweet.

And Gorgan ~ Ya your right even tho Microsoft Suck's it probly would not suck that much. :newbrain:

Well i would of added my new desktop screen shot but I totaly forgot I uninstalled it this morning.,, So maybe on the flip side of the day I'll reinstall it and put up a new pick.

[Fingerle]

All I got to say about that avy GK is you ain't the only one here it would fit. LoL!!!

Hmmm... Linux Desktop thread... Might should I get a bit busy and do some tweaking here so's I can post me a pic or two..
Now that I finally got it up and running with the 8800 vid board, I'm thinking Mint-KDE is a keeper. :D

[floppybootstomp]

And Gorgan ~ Ya your right even tho....

A Gorgan, yesterday.

Not a bad likeness eh?

[Michael_Horatio]

that's enough to give someone nightmares Floppy.

I've settled on this one below now, a bit plain but easy on the eyes and it goes well with the default dark theme.

http://www.mikeserv.org/gallery/Horatio/screenshots/apr121.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=0

[[ GK ]]

Now that I finally got it up and running with the 8800 vid board, I'm thinking Mint-KDE is a keeper. :D
Cats,

May I ask how you got the 8800 working with Linux Mint?

[Fingerle]

Sure.... Twas easier than expected.

Shut down system.
Pull 8800GT, insert 7300LE
Install Mint..
Run updates.
Install the new Linux driver for the 8800..
Shut down the system, and pull 7300LE and insert 8800GT
Turn on puter.
All set. :tup:

All that BS to say I simply used an older video board when I installed and set up Mint. LoL!

[[ GK ]]

Interesting. I tried that with Ubuntu, but it puked after I put the 8800 in.

Maybe I'll try Mint again...got it right over here somewhere...

[Fingerle]

With Mint, make sure you install the newer version of Envy before you install the drivers. And use the manual option in Envy.

Version of Envy that ships with mint installs the older "Don't work with the 8800" drivers. your looking to install the nVidia 169.12 version.

[Dark Angel]

I used that to get this thing up to speed. Make sure you're booting into the latest kernel, though. I wasn't ('tard moment) and many many vary bad words left the air with a smokey tinge. :ono:

[Grogan]

That's where these so called "easy" distributions leave you cold. Had this been Slackware or something "harder", you'd have gotten your kernel source package installed (e.g. during setup) and gone to Nvidia's web site and gotten the driver and run the installer. You could have gotten that far (to use a web browser and stuff) by simply using the vesa framebuffer X server which it defaults to if you don't run xorgconfig anyways. But oh no... you'd have been exposed to a bit of black screen console stuff and ncurses based menus.

[Fingerle]

Let's see.... How to reply to that... Hmmmm....

OK!

Some of us still like/need to be "spoon"fed a bit.
and
There's a reason it's called n"curses"!!! LoL!!!!! :hehe:

[Dark Angel]

The vesa device is what I got, G. This version (though I think it's the version of X they use) doesn't have the same options when you run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg that the previous version has. Instead you go to the recovery option in the grub menu and you get three options: boot normally, boot to root console or try to reconfigure X. THe last option worked fine, but with my retarded selections during the update I was left with the wrong kernel, so all the 'fixes' were applied to the one I wasn't using. My problems were all my own fault.

[labatts]

messing around with my ubuntu desktop to make it less gnomegly


http://www.mikeserv.org/gallery/labatts/kde-screenshots/Screenshot.png.html

[Grogan]

Al, that reminds me a lot of Enlightenment. Looks pretty good.

[[ GK ]]

messing around with my ubuntu desktop to make it less gnomegly


http://www.mikeserv.org/gallery/labatts/kde-screenshots/Screenshot.png.html

Looks good! :thumbsup:

Where do you get the "dock" like OS X uses?

[labatts]

;478726']

Where do you get the "dock" like OS X uses?

it's called avant window navigator,it's pretty cool,has nice animations when you hover over the icons and launch them

not sure which linux distro your using,but it might be available in that distros respective repos


heres a link to the project..

https://launchpad.net/awn

[Fingerle]

Here Go Patty.. My destop after playing with the advanced settings a touch..
Lil Zoom on the cube, cube caps 3-d windows and a skycap added..

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Oh I also turned on Cube reflection...

[phicks]

That is cool. :big grin:

[phicks]

Mine isn't as cool as Fing's. I'll have to play some more. :D

[Troy]

That is cool. :big grin:


Ditto, very cool

[phicks]

A little better Fing. I need to stop playing and get a few things done. :lol:

[Fingerle]

Lookin pretty good there Patty.. :tup:

Playing with the eye-candy settings can be almost as much fun as a new Video game. :lol:
Soooo many shiny buttons to play with.

[[ GK ]]

I don't know what I did, but instead of a cube spinning in front of me, now I'm inside the cube as it spins around me.

Wtf? :lol:

[phicks]

Well I haven't done that yet. :lol:

[[ GK ]]

Yeah, it's makin' me dizzy. :barf:

[Fingerle]

I know it's there somewhere, But I can't seem to locate that particular button.

[Dark Angel]

Look under "upgrade" :thumbsup:

[Fingerle]

Found it.... Desktop cube/Behavior...

Check box for inside cube..

[Dark Angel]

Oh THAT button. :headwipe:

I hit my head on the gears if I try that.

[[ GK ]]

Thanks Fing! I'll check that out when I get home tonight. :thumbsup:

[[ GK ]]

Found it! :thumbsup:

They sure make ya poke around long enough to find something like that.

[phicks]

I found it earlier but felt claustrophobic when I did. :lol: :D

Saw the gear ones as well DA. Someplace :lol: but haven't tried it yet. :D

[Dark Angel]

If you expand you cube out to ten sides it's kinda roomy. I don't see the use of ten, but it's roomy. :lol:

[Alakazam]

Playing around with the Mint desktop

[Fingerle]

Which music player you runnin there Zammy? The skin is kinda cool. :)

[Alakazam]

It's Audacious Fing, the skin is already in the options, I thought it was pretty cool too.

[phicks]

I like that Zammy. :thumbsup:

[Fingerle]

Cool.. Haven't used that one as of yet...

Wonders over to have a "conversation" with synaptic :lol:

[floppybootstomp]

Looks good :tup:

[labatts]

very nice Zammy :)

[Fingerle]

PCLos 2008 Minime

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[Fingerle]

Oooo... Version in PCLos even does spheres.

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Can't do THAT with ungabunga.. (Well not without some semi-major tweaking)

[Grogan]

I'm downloading pclos-gnome2008.iso now to play with. If it passes the non-silliness test in vmware, it might make it on a real partition for further testing.

[Fingerle]

The PCLos 2007, and gnome 2008 still ship with the 2.6.22 kernel. Don't play well with my all SATA drives setup.

Getting this "Mini" edition sorted to the point where it's quite usable for me. :lol:
All the "toys" in Compiz-Fusion are a trip. :D Just don't see most of these in Ubuntu based distros.

[Grogan]

2.6.22 on a new distribution? What is the matter with those people?

Mine will be fine with 2.6.22 (at least until I can get a new one in place) with the right drivers turned on, as that's the kernel that was available when I built this 64 bit setup, but that's pretty lame. They could easily use 2.6.26.

[Grogan]

The PCLos 2007, and gnome 2008 still ship with the 2.6.22 kernel. Don't play well with my all SATA drives setup.

Ohhhh... I think I know what happened there. 2.6.22 itself should be fine on Intel hardware, it's just that they probably built both the old IDE interface in kernel and the new libata interface (possibly as modules) and the old one is the one that initializes the drives when they are both present, and the SATA controllers are in IDE mode. It's too old for modern controllers and there wouldn't even be DMA support.

I had that problem when I first transferred over my 32 bit system to this computer. I didn't know this at first, and I was still using the old IDE driver and performance was terrible. With the controllers still in IDE mode at that time, I built a new kernel with only the libata interface, and the performance problems were solved (using the correct UDMA mode then).

It wasn't long after that that I switched to AHCI, which would make it a moot point because that uses the libata and AHCI driver. So I likely won't see any problem with the PCLos kernels.

[Grogan]

Well, I've pretty much got this PCLinuxOS how I want it. It responded admirably to my sexual advances.

It even comes with Sexamp! I used that xmms skin back in the old days, with Mandrake. Nostalgic to see it again.

I don't know how to get those screenshots like Fing does with the cube zoomed out, but here's my desktop.

http://www.mikeserv.org/gallery/Mikes-Gallery/pclos2008_gnome.png.html

Gnome has really improved... this is the best version of it I've ever used. I guess it doesn't have to be fugly and horrible, it just needs the right configuration and themes and stuff. I don't have to hate it so rabidly.

[phicks]

This distro is cooler than a bucket of penguin shit

:lol:

I like the dark colors. :thumbsup:

[Michael_Horatio]

Your best desktop so far I'd say G. except for that gorky xmms skin...:cheers:

[Alakazam]

Very nice Grogan, if you want a ss of the cube, let go of the 'Ctrl' & 'Alt' keys while still holding down the mouse button and hit the Print Screen, that's how I do it. Fing, the sphere is really cool, I hadn't tried that one yet.

[Fingerle]

Looks like Zammy been havin some fun...

[Grogan]

Ahh thanks, Zammy. ctrl-alt. I couldn't find the key combo to zoom out. What I've got is the cylinder, using the "Cube reflection and Deformation" setting. When I switch desktops it's more like a cube with rounded edges, because it happens so fast.

[Fingerle]

Well ain't that a bitch with a capitol 'B'

Couldn't get the drivers for the GTX280 to load without borking PCLos.
So that puts me back to Ubuntu-Server 64bit. Quite a bit of work getting things
set up, but seems to be coming along nicely.

Even went out and got me the updated version of Compiz-Fusion fer it. :D

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Complete with the only things
worth a shit on the Vista DVD.
:hehe: The wallpapers :hehe:

[Dark Angel]

I gots me the new compiz-fusion as well ... lost me damn fishies though. It least I still gots me sphere. :thumbsup:

[Fingerle]

You woulda killed 'em anyway... :P

[Dark Angel]

and EATED themz! :ia:

[[ GK ]]

and EATED themz! :ia:

Poor fishies, what did they ever do to you? :ono:

[Fingerle]

Hey DA... Do you mean These Fish?

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[edit] Another shot through the cube.
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[Fingerle]

OK, In case anyone is interested. Here's what I did to install the fish plugin.
(done on Ubuntu-server 8.04 64bit) But should work with most other distros.


First off make sure you have the latest Compiz-Fusion and the CompizConfig Settings Manager installed through your package manager.

1. Open a terminal

2. Make sure you have all the tools to compile the package.


sudo apt-get install compiz-bcop compiz-dev build-essential libtool libglu1-mesa-dev libxss-dev libcairo2-dev git-core

3. Make a directory to put plugin source files.

mkdir ~/compizplugins

4. Change to it.

cd ~/compizplugins

5. get the plugin.

git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/users/metastability/atlantis2

Almost there, only three steps left...

cd ~/compizplugins/atlantis2
make
sudo make install
(Hopefully you don't get any errors)

Fire up CompizConfig Settings Manager and you should see "Atlantis" listed in the effects section. Enable Atlantis, and go play with your new fishes.

[Fingerle]

Ooo looky.. Winblows can do Cube too...
Not near as eyecandyfied as Comp-Fusion
Def not worth the $25 they are asking for it but the demo works. :lol:

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[labatts]

Def not worth the $25 they are asking for it but the demo works. :lol:

:lol:



this is still a work in progress,using the avant window navigator for the launch bar,screenlets for the applets and the mac4lin theme for gnome..to see this screeny in a larger 1280x1024 view just click on the smaller pic...Gallery courtesy of the G-Man :-)




http://www.mikeserv.org/gallery/labatts/kde-screenshots/Screenshot_001.png.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=0


i should just get an apple already :lol:

[[ GK ]]

Looks nice, labatts. :D

[Grogan]

I love the homer simpson clock :lol:

[labatts]

Thanks Guy's...ya that homer simpson clock cracked me up the first time i saw it too..it's animated,his eyes follow the second hand..i toggled off the beer bottle that can be put at the end of the second hand though.

just screwing around with the eye candy..honestly thats what i love about linux,and to a greater degree open source..you can do whatever the hell you want with your desktop,apps ..your not held back with what someone else thinks your system should look like or behave like...the freedom is addicting and the fact that all of this stuff didn't cost me a dime is amazing

Not to mention i'm running all this eye candy on an amd-2800 xp processor and a 7600 geforce video card..try that with vista and my hardware...:lol:

[[ GK ]]

Props for the Bob Marley tunes. :thumbsup:

[Grogan]

..try that with vista and my hardware...:lol:

I'll have you know, Mister... I have a wonderful Vista desktop. This Linux snobbery is just wrong. Microsoft fools can have nice customized desktops too you know! See?...

[Dark Angel]

:slaugh: :slaugh:

[NecroScumBag]

Yes, Thanks "G"... That was a very good read...

[Fingerle]

Nice desktop Gro.. :lol:

I got a screen saver that looks like that..

[labatts]

:lol:

great desktop G

[Grogan]

Yep, no icons, the (classic) taskbar autohides and that's all there is to see. When I'm using Vista, I won't be looking at that anyways because I'll have a game full screen. Everything possible is disabled, too... even the desktop window manager.

[Alakazam]

LOL G, excellent desktop, very easy on the eyes!!!

labatts, I liked your setup too.

[Grogan]

This is OogaBooga 8.10 on my Acer Aspire One netbook. Small screen area, but I would normally autohide the panel.

I got this theme from gnome-look.org, it's called GoldAndBlack. I like it... certainly better than the fuglios that Ubuntu provides.

P.S. Hmm, it's a bit glossier on my netbook screen. I'm looking at the screenshot on my desktop LCD right now and it's more matte.

[[ GK ]]

That is a cool looking theme, Gro. I might have to look into that one.

[Alakazam]

Nice Grogan, looks like you're having some fun with the netbook.

[labatts]

Very Nice G.looks great..:)

[sagecss]

With few things open
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1719/dt1ra3.png (http://imageshack.us)

And a little less cluttered
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/2898/dt2zx4.png (http://imageshack.us)

[Alakazam]

Excellent background sagecss!

[Grogan]

Congrats on getting there with ArchLinux, Sage. That's looking great.

XFCE4 is highly customizable. They've made it all Gnome-like by default in recent versions but you can do a lot with it. All within the settings dialogs and right click/properties menus.

http://www.mikeserv.org/gallery/Mikes-Gallery/xfce4_recent.png.html

I like it more old XFCE style. Things you can't see:

Session manager disabled. What a piece of shit, that serves very little purpose in XFCE. (edit $PREFIX/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc and comment out the section that loads it and it reverts to the old ways without it)

All the apps I have in the tear off menus

Large panel auto hides

Focus follows mouse

Wrap workspaces at screen edge (so I can slide between virtual desktops with the mouse)

Window transparency (with very low opacity) only when dragging (If I want to see behind it, I just click and drag a pixel or so and hold it, then release when I want it fully opaque again). Title bar transparency (high opacity) always.

[sagecss]

I must admit that since using Linux I haven't been that happy with the available DE's like Gnome and KDE, and I am not running them down here, but since using XFCE4....mate this thing puts a smile on my dial. I think it is FANTASTIC.

Grogan, are you using a theme with those dark colours and may I enquire as to the icons too...the combo looks really good.
Also, I think you may have shared it before, but could you point me to that background of yours?

[Grogan]

Yep, you'll have that theme in your XFCE settings. It's called Dusk I think. What those themes actually are, are GTK 2 themes. When XFCE applies that, it applies to all gtk apps. (but only while using XFCE unless you make it your default theme)

The window decoration style is "default 2" I think.

The icons aren't a theme, they are ones that I have changed manually for the launchers. You can have them if you want them. I can put them in a tarball for you.

Here's where I got the wallpaper:

http://www.shiftedreality.com/?s=abandoned

[sagecss]

Thanks for the background link Grogan.
Don't hassle with the icons, thanks though.

Tell me, with XFCE, is there a way to have a different background on each desktop? Also, can I manually change the desktop icons?

[Grogan]

Not with my version of XFCE, no. The desktop background is for all workspaces.

As for the icons, I don't have desktop icons enabled. If you right click on them and do properties or something and there's no way to change the icon, I would guess not. I'd be surprised if you couldn't though, that would be very short sighted. (and they are VERY ugly icons)

[sagecss]

Ugly they are indeed :eek:
Nah, checked the properties thingie and is very limitted...it is probably part of the them, so could probably save the icons I want with the same name as the current theme.
Anyway, it is no big deal...I'll keep fiddling with the critter....thanks.

[Alakazam]

I finally got PCLos09 up and running the way I want and found a wallpaper for my new rig, still using KDE because I'm used to it, I got everything transferred over now to 09 so I'll be getting ready to set up the wife's computer with it next.

[Grogan]

Looks good in black :-)

[sagecss]

Nice Alakazam

[Dark Angel]

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Probably not everyone's cup of tea, but it's amusing me right now.
Walnut2 Theme for Firefox (and Thunderbird) with a Wood theme and buttons for Gnome. The gauges are functional screenlets with brass/classic skins and a Victorian style bank blotter desktop.

[[ GK ]]

Looks cool, DA :thumbsup:

[labatts]

i really like your desktop.very sharp

And the screenlets are kickass

[Alakazam]

That's pretty neat DA, I like different, good job.

[Grogan]

The folders look stupid, but everything else looks great. I like the "processorator" gauges.

I'm not a huge Gnome fan (but I don't hate it anymore, it's nicer than it used to be) and I've been avoiding anything in Gentoo with dependencies that will cause half of Gnome to get compiled, but I'm probably going to bite the bullet and start a Gnome ebuild today. It'll be nice to see Gnome locally compiled (without having to do any work), and running on a fast system and then Gnome dependencies will be moot because it's already there lol

I'd be interested in having those gauges.

[Dark Angel]

I think I agree about the folders, they look a bit ... blocky. Classic manila would be in keeping with the genre and probably look better. I might have a bit of a tinker.

[Grogan]

I had to get some things in order (recompile a few things with different USE flags) and now that I'm ready to go, look what this is going to do to me :roflmao:

Gnome is sick.


getstuffed ~ # emerge --pretend gnome

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-common-2.26.0
[ebuild N ] media-libs/libdiscid-0.1.1
[ebuild N ] net-dns/bind-tools-9.4.3_p4 USE="ipv6 -idn"
[ebuild N ] net-analyzer/traceroute-2.0.12 USE="-static"
[ebuild N ] net-misc/netkit-fingerd-0.17-r3 USE="-xinetd"
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libsigc++-2.2.3 USE="-debug -doc -test"
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libbonobo-2.24.1 USE="-debug -doc"
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-2.26.3 USE="hal pam -debug -doc -test"
[ebuild N ] x11-libs/libwnck-2.26.2-r2 USE="-doc -startup-notification"
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.26.0 USE="-debug -doc -test"
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgtop-2.26.1 USE="-debug"
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.26.2 USE="python -debug"
[ebuild N ] dev-python/gnome-python-base-2.26.1 USE="-debug"
[ebuild N ] dev-python/gnome-python-desktop-base-2.26.0 USE="-debug"
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgnomekbd-2.26.0
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libgweather-2.26.2.1 USE="python -doc"
[ebuild N ] media-libs/gst-plugins-good-0.10.16 USE="-debug"
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gvfs-1.2.3 USE="gnome hal -archive -avahi -bash-completion -bluetooth -cdda -debug -doc -fuse -gnome-keyring -gphoto2 -samba"
[ebuild N ] app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.4
[ebuild N ] media-libs/libcanberra-0.11 USE="alsa gtk -doc -gstreamer -oss"
[ebuild N ] x11-libs/gtksourceview-2.6.2 USE="-doc"
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-gconf-0.10.16
[ebuild N ] app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libunique-1.0.8 USE="dbus -debug -doc -test"
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/nspr-4.8 USE="ipv6 -debug"
[ebuild N ] dev-cpp/glibmm-2.20.1 USE="-debug -doc -examples -test"
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.18.0 USE="-debug"
[ebuild N ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.18.3 USE="-accessibility -lua"
[ebuild N ] net-print/libgnomecups-0.2.3 USE="-debug"
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-gio-0.10.24
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-x-0.10.24
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.7
[ebuild N ] app-text/rarian-0.8.1 USE="-debug"
[ebuild N ] dev-python/pyorbit-2.24.0 USE="-debug"
[ebuild N ] media-libs/freeglut-2.4.0-r1
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/poppler-glib-0.10.7 USE="cairo"
[ebuild N ] dev-cpp/cairomm-1.6.0 USE="-doc"
[ebuild N ] x11-themes/gnome-backgrounds-2.24.1
[ebuild N ] app-admin/sudo-1.7.2_p1 USE="pam -ldap -offensive (-selinux) -skey"
[ebuild N ] dev-python/gst-python-0.10.16 USE="-examples"
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-pango-0.10.24
[ebuild N ] dev-python/pyxdg-0.17-r2
[ebuild N ] dev-python/gdata-2.0.4 USE="-examples"
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-soup-0.10.16
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvdread-0.10.12
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-theora-0.10.24
[ebuild N ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.12 USE="-debug"
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.24
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-a52dec-0.10.12
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.10.16
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg-0.10.24
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.10.24
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mpeg2dec-0.10.12
[ebuild N ] media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.1b-r2 USE="-debug"
[ebuild N ] app-text/scrollkeeper-dtd-1.0
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/elfutils-0.131-r2
[ebuild N ] sys-devel/gdb-7.0 USE="nls python -expat -multitarget -test -vanilla"
[ebuild N ] media-libs/swfdec-0.8.4 USE="alsa ffmpeg gtk -doc -gstreamer -pulseaudio"
[ebuild N ] net-libs/gtk-vnc-0.3.8-r1 USE="python -examples"
[ebuild N ] x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop-0.2
[ebuild N ] x11-libs/libsexy-0.1.11 USE="-debug -doc"
[ebuild N ] x11-libs/gtkglext-1.2.0 USE="-debug"
[ebuild NS ] media-libs/musicbrainz-3.0.2 [2.1.5] USE="-test"
[ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-cdparanoia-0.10.24
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libisofs-0.6.24 USE="acl zlib -xattr"
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libburn-0.7.0
[ebuild N ] x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.4 USE="-debug"
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One thing I really don't like is that it's going to put back nspr and xulrunner (mozilla components that I don't want as system libraries because I build my own self contained firefox now)

Oh well, I'm going to pull the trigger.

[sagecss]

The folders look stupid...

Nah...not all of them, that one in the bottom left corner, the me thingy, doesn't look totally ridiculous :eek:

[Grogan]

Well, that all only took 55 minutes and 29 seconds. It was done when I came back from supper. The processor threads were idle much of the time (during the time I was watching it anyway)... this build didn't benefit greatly from 10 make jobs.

Out of the box, it would be quite fugly. The only reason things are already black is because of settings in my .gtkrc-2.0 file in my home directory. I basically just need to change the wallpaper, change the title bars, change the panels around to my liking etc.

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http://www.bitbenderforums.com/~grogan/temp/gnome_gentoo_small.jpg (www.bitbenderforums.com/~grogan/temp/gnome_gentoo.png)

[Dark Angel]

Ok, consider this a work in progress. There's WAAAAAAY more icons in here than I realised! :eek:

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[Grogan]

Ahh, now those folders are superb looking.

[Dark Angel]

I'm gradually building a complete theme for gnome with this. It's taking FAR longer than expected and I'm not going right into the guts of it yet :ono: there's just SO FRIKKEN MANY possible things in here to play with! :eek:

On the plus side, I discovered I was running two different nvidia driver versions and have got that sorted out after managing to crash my entire desktop with all the goofing off I'm doing.

[Grogan]

Well, I had to do it. I tried a bunch of others (KDE 4.3.3 almost made it, if not for the bloat and obscene memory wastage. It even performs very well, but no fucking desktop is getting away with that on my system. Sorry KDE), but XFCE is still the one for me. Now I am whole again. I need access to everything quickly (from panel launchers and tear off menus), and the ability to spread it all out across many desktops and quickly navigate between them.

Guess what I made it look like? The fucking same as I always do :roflmao:

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http://www.bitbenderforums.com/~grogan/temp/xfce4_gentoo_small.jpg (www.bitbenderforums.com/~grogan/temp/xfce4_gentoo.png)

Old style XFCE layout. It's a bit of work getting it like this, which is why I was procrastinating.

[labatts]

DA those icons match your theme perfectly..nice job man

G wicked xfce desktop..having dealt with the newer versions of xfce i know how much work goes into that..looks great

[Bad Haircut]

Still a classic functional layout for me, that XFCE. I think if something works so well for you why screw around too much / at all.

[Michael_Horatio]

Ok, consider this a work in progress. There's WAAAAAAY more icons in here than I realised!


Always hated those woody themes, but this looks very nice - first one I've seen..nice job. folders look great and those little mp3 icons too. Yes Yes Yes!!

[Dark Angel]

I'm working on a Victorian England/Steampunk concept which should eventually include things like moving brass gears for the window spinner and a polished brass look for the windows decorator (perhaps) but it will take a while yet to work it all out.

[sagecss]

This is my Gnome Desktop on Arch...

With a few apps open:
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/7580/desk2y.th.png (http://img197.imageshack.us/i/desk2y.png/)

and the background:
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/9812/desk3.th.png (http://img705.imageshack.us/i/desk3.png/)

[Bad Haircut]

I like that, sage. Nice http://www.bitbendertech.com/forums/images/icons/rthumbu.gif

[Bad Haircut]

What theme / icon set is it, sage?

[sagecss]

Bad Haircut...

Thanks.

Mate, I can't remember off hand. I have broken down my OS to make a few changes to my partition structure and to redo my OS again for a bit more practice with the Arch setup :nuts:...so can't look right now, but when it is up again I will let you know straight away.

I think the icon theme was BlackWhite-III.
Check out gnome-look.org under the gtk2 listings for a number of dark themes and under the icon listings for many available icon sets.

I will get back to you on this ASAP though.

[Grogan]

I've been meaning to say (but forgot to come back to this thread to comment), that sure looks fabulous. The icons are sharp and the colour scheme is tasteful. I love the oil painting-like background too. It would be soft and easy on the eyes.

[Michael_Horatio]

Yep, ditto - I always use dark themes but that black Grey dark blue looks really tight..nice work

[sagecss]

Thanks Grogan and Michael.

I am struggling to change the black font for unselected buttons and menu items. If I can't get this sorted I will ditch this, as it annoys the crap out of me. The rest is pleasant though. I must learn to customize/create my own themes anyway.

The icon set used is LaGaDesk-BlackWhite-III-Icons.
The theme is Black-Diamond, which I customized slightly on the colours tab.
The window border is - glossy. I can't recall now but will confirm if this is a default border or if it is part of the gtk-murrine-engine. I will try to recreate this theme on my newly installed partition to confirm.

Application font: Sans Bold 11
Document font: Sans 11
Desktop font: Sans 11
Windows title font: Sans Bold 12
Fixed width font: Monospace 11
I have best shapes selected.

Here is the link for the background for any who care...
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/9641/normalfromksaadbynucu.png

[Grogan]

Is that the full size image? (and you scaled it to 1680x1050?)

Hmm yep, it does seem to scale very well at various resolutions.

[Dark Angel]

Thanks Grogan and Michael.

I am struggling to change the black font for unselected buttons and menu items. If I can't get this sorted I will ditch this, as it annoys the crap out of me. The rest is pleasant though. I must learn to customize/create my own themes anyway.

You might be fighting on the wrong front. A lot of the custom themes depend on the default themes for stuff that they don't implicitly define. ie if your theme doesn't define a specific trash can, then it will use the one from the theme it references. It's the same for folders, icons, menu backgrounds, the lot. Mine is still unfinished, but I ran out of enthusiasm and free time as uni starts back on Monday.

[sagecss]

Ah...thanks for that DA.

[Michael_Horatio]

Here's what it looks like today.

Oh, bye the way, TuxRacer is not for me. my nephew plays that..

http://www.mikeserv.org/gallery/Horatio/screenshots/Screenshot-1_002.png.html

[Grogan]

TuxRacer is good (and Extreme Tux Racer is a much improved, modern version that compiles easily)... no need to make excuses for having that :lol:

[mlangdn]

I like extreme tuxracer myself

[Michael_Horatio]

Ha ha well I must admit, I occasionally kick the little guy out of the seat and have a ride down the mountain..