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Linux can look damn good

Started by snellgrove, May 01, 2006, 23:15:41 PM

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snellgrove

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





My Splash Screen


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:



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 !

redneck

if my mac could cope i would tick teh boxes.

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

brummie

How do you get it to do that then?

skidzilla

PC BSD has bling too. :)

(KDE 3.5.2, not my desktop though...)

maximusotter

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


Clock'd 0Ne

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?

maximusotter

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:

M3ta7h3ad

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.

maximusotter


redneck

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