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Title: Linux can look damn good
Post by: snellgrove on May 01, 2006, 23:15:41 PM

Dapper is good on bling, with a little effort :mrgreen:

(http://static.flickr.com/50/138622195_5be2db32e4_b.jpg)

(http://static.flickr.com/51/138622763_39f748ec7d_b.jpg)

My Splash Screen
(http://static.flickr.com/46/138624168_133af35571.jpg)

I dont know how to take a picture of the Graphical Greeter, but its just as nice looking at the moment, same format as the splash & wallpaper. Heres the sample from the website I got it from:

(http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/37589-1.jpg)

8) Vista will look pretty ugly by the time it comes out with Linux advancing so fast in the bling department! (how naughty of me to use a Vista type application style though :lol: ) but I fancied making things all green & blue and the like !

Title: Linux can look damn good
Post by: redneck on May 02, 2006, 09:25:18 AM

if my mac could cope i would tick teh boxes.

however ppc dapper is horribly unstable atm. an thats something i dont need :(

Title: Re:Linux can look damn good
Post by: brummie on May 02, 2006, 10:11:23 AM

How do you get it to do that then?

Title: Re:Linux can look damn good
Post by: skidzilla on May 02, 2006, 20:45:13 PM

PC BSD (http://www.pcbsd.org/) has bling too. :)
(http://img281.imageshack.us/img281/5710/shot7io.png)
(KDE 3.5.2, not my desktop though...)

Title: Linux can look damn good
Post by: maximusotter on May 02, 2006, 20:53:51 PM

OMG, transparent windowmanager themes!111!. :lol:

Thats a default KDE background, btw.

SVG icons are cool when youre making a desktop for the sight or thinking impaired. Scale the firefox button to 300x300 and tell them to "click there for porn". :D

Title: Re:Linux can look damn good
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on May 02, 2006, 22:57:57 PM

Transparency looks lovely, but it cant be that comfortable to read around after a while though? The best readability is born of cotrast is it not?

Title: Linux can look damn good
Post by: maximusotter on May 02, 2006, 23:01:11 PM

Transparency is totally candy.

I only use it in terminals, as Im commonly not doing anything more than a single line command and its pleasant to see something pretty behind the scrolling text after I

$ sudo aptitude install -pity foo*
:lol:

Title: Re:Linux can look damn good
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on May 03, 2006, 00:35:25 AM

Quote from: brummieHow do you get it to do that then?

ello mate :)

Can you post up your sources.list as I want to bloody upgrade this install to dapper but synaptic is still saying my mirrors are no good.

Title: Linux can look damn good
Post by: maximusotter on May 03, 2006, 01:27:59 AM

My mirrors have been dog slow on the last update.

try this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=131872&highlight=dapper+sources.list

Title: Linux can look damn good
Post by: redneck on May 03, 2006, 12:15:51 PM

metalhead you lazy bugger, go to the ubuntu repositories forum and build your own.

mine is pretty long :)

could be with all the sound editing shiz i do :o

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