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- RogerT1, on 02/25/2009, -3/+38Dugg for "Pimping your Gnome"
- yellowaeroplane, on 02/25/2009, -3/+17The Meliae icon set on top of the Dust theme. It's a beautiful thing:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Meliae? ...
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Ubuntu+ ... - Rudegar, on 02/25/2009, -1/+13linux is the desktop i've seen with most eye-candy some of those youtube clips with
rain drops effect flag moving windows and the cube look amazing
sure it have no practical effect but it's more eye-candy then vista could bring to the table
and with much less gpu requirement at that - phunction, on 02/25/2009, -5/+16dugg for ubuntu :D can't wait until the april release of jaunty.
- aklu, on 02/25/2009, -1/+11Shut up and conform already...
- Vadi0, on 02/25/2009, -1/+9Digg, where people express their personal preference by burying.
- ChstrCopperpot, on 02/25/2009, -1/+8Yeah, it's pretty well known (and basic) stuff, but the Linux word has to keep getting put out. If this article saves only one soul from Microsoft, it's worth it.
- Wandel, on 02/25/2009, -3/+9Well, if your preference is stupid, what do you expect?
;) - hughtopia, on 02/25/2009, -4/+10Dugg, but it should have been titled "Turn your Gnome Desktop into OS X Leopard"...
- diggduggDOOM, on 02/25/2009, -3/+8Keep your desktop pimp hand strong.
Bitch better have my widgets! - Wuss, on 02/25/2009, -1/+5if you're gonna do it, at least do it right.
- BadAsh71, on 02/25/2009, -2/+6The problem is that most distros do not have a nice looking Default Theme for Gnome.
Take Ubuntu for example. It is the most popular Gnome based Linux Distro and yet they continue to give us this butt ugly brown and orange Gnome Theme.
Seriously, it is so unoriginal. It looks like someone took Windows and took a crap on it after eating carrots.
So, people install Ubuntu, see the turd theme and then install KDE.
KDE has a beautiful or at least, not orange theme so people like it.
Most people that switch from Gnome (especially Ubuntu) to KDE don't even change their Theme so they don't know the potential of Gnome.
With Gnome you can easily make your Desktop look exactly like Mac OS X, Vista, Windows 7 or any number of more original Themes.
The only problem is, people don't know that.
The average user installs an OS, and never changes the Theme. That "default" Theme had better be nice looking, otherwise the user will move on to the next best thing... without really knowing or caring much about what they are leaving.
Sorry if I sound like I am beating down on Ubuntu but I, as well as most others am getting tired of the Turd Brown and Orange Theme with Cave Drawing Wallpaper.
Canonical needs to snazz it up and try to compete for the Desktop from a User perspective... real users, not just the techno geeks that will pimp it out in 5 seconds flat and never look back.
/End Rant :-)
Btw, I have been using Ubuntu for years and give copies out to friends, co-workers and family.
My current Theme is Mac OS X using the AWN Dock of course :-)
In the past I had it setup to look like Vista and fooled many individuals that were impressed that I had the full Aero Glass running on my slow ass P4 with a crappy video card... they were shocked and dismayed to find out it was Linux because to get all the glitz and glitter I was getting they had to buy a new PC :-) - IamNomad, on 02/26/2009, -0/+4YO DAWG....
- joerod, on 02/25/2009, -1/+5Compiz is awesome!
- phunction, on 02/25/2009, -0/+3yeah EXT4 is definitely one of the stronger changes in the new release. i'm currently running 8.10 intrepid on my dell and 6.06 drake on my ibook g4 ppc.
- Vadi0, on 02/25/2009, -0/+3I think you didn't understand the title - it's all about "customization".
Just making sure you got it right - kde is cool. - NobodyWhoCares, on 02/25/2009, -1/+3I hear that. I normally run Arch, but tried the latest 9.04 nightly build, and I'm sorely tempted to switch. Very fast, EXT4 support built in, and very slick. Definitely going to be one of Canonical's better releases.
- yellowaeroplane, on 02/25/2009, -0/+2hah, absolutely.
For as long as I can remember I was overhauling my desktop (icons, window decorations, etc...) at least a few times each month. About three or four months ago I stumbled on those two and haven't gotten my familiar urge to mess with it since. It's like they were made for each other.
btw, try going with some sort of high-def black and white background with the two. The sexiness factor goes through the roof. - jexdawg, on 02/25/2009, -10/+12Enable Compiz, use themes, change icons, get screenlets, and a dock? Seriously? Buried for being ***** obvious.
- Rapax, on 02/26/2009, -0/+2Where's the problem in that? If one OS has a good feature, it'll be used in future versions of the others. Bad features will be ignored by the others. Net result: Future versions of all OS's are better.
- devnullDood, on 02/25/2009, -2/+4Im glad Im not the only one that thought so.
- dannyfreeman, on 02/25/2009, -0/+1that icon theme is awesome, thanks
- Armitage2k, on 02/26/2009, -0/+1AMEN
- Armitage2k, on 02/26/2009, -0/+1it's called evolution
- theaceoffire, on 02/25/2009, -0/+1Try the scale plugin and the expose one... they let you see all your desktops as a wall (And re-arrange the programs), and it also lets you look at all open apps in a grid format.
I mapped the wall one to the bottom right corner, and it makes multiple desktops SO much easier. - iscadrian, on 02/26/2009, -0/+1I agree, this is absolutely awesome.
Is a sophisticated environment that reflects new kind of users.
Also is easer to handle and customize, the results are awesome!!!. - pipedreaming, on 02/25/2009, -1/+2Yeah obvious to uber-geeks but 99% of regular users and even many recent Linux converts have no idea about its customization potential. Too many people abandon Linux because of Ubuntu's fugly default theme without knowing they can change it.
Fact of the matter is the average user is drawn to eye-candy. If you can convince the masses that Linux can look prettier than Vista or Mac OS X, they'll flock to Linux like flies to honey. - JoelJ, on 02/26/2009, -0/+1thanks for the links to the awesome themes! :)
- Rudegar, on 02/26/2009, -0/+1well it's beta and will time out sooner or later
so i'll keep my main on xp where it's happy and
my everyday stuff works as it should
be maybe i'll take my vista hp laptop to win7 when it's released :) - Sealbhach, on 02/27/2009, -0/+1Me too, I found AWN, Cairo Dock, Kiba, Gnome-Do all very buggy, at least in Ubuntu with Compiz running. Were more trouble than they were worth.
- zero, on 02/26/2009, -2/+3The problem with the themes is most of them try to copy OSX or Vista.
- IamNomad, on 02/26/2009, -0/+1pimping aint easy but its necessary
- Armitage2k, on 02/26/2009, -0/+1hmm.. Windows 7... try it
- arock99, on 02/25/2009, -3/+3what a crappy list
- pipedreaming, on 02/25/2009, -0/+0Beautiful icon set...I'm going to replace the Mac4Lin icons on my machine with this. Thanks...
- Inox555, on 02/28/2009, -0/+0
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4KGrWcI_kv0/SCgLiHTuH4I/ ... - antdude, on 02/26/2009, -2/+2Compiz is buggy for me. It crashes a lot. :(
- JonForTheWin, on 02/25/2009, -1/+1The Elementary Icon theme is very elegant. http://danrabbit.deviantart.com/art/elementary-Ico ... The GTK+ theme under the same name by the same guy is pretty good too.
- OfficialJoe, on 02/25/2009, -1/+1When I read the title I immediately got the image of crack-ho porn midget doing it on a desktop.
- rub3nmv, on 02/26/2009, -1/+1You can install the "community-themes" package on Ubuntu to get some really nice themes (Dust, New Wave, etc.)
- Sealbhach, on 02/27/2009, -1/+1I'm liking Macchiato these days
http://www.ubuntu-art.org/content/show.php/Macchia ...
. - nutmac, on 02/27/2009, -1/+1Regarding the last section, Dock, I don't get the obsession to mimic Mac OS X on Ubuntu. In any case, I found Cairo-Dock to be way too buggy to be usable (and really poor English).
- santixx, on 02/25/2009, -3/+2In this case, pimping IS easy.
- MrViklund, on 02/27/2009, -2/+1Ubuntu - It's all about the hype.
As long as Ubuntu is using Gnome as the default desktop it's stuck in the stone age. KDE pulls light years ahead. KDE is the future of Linux desktop and Gnome should be abandoned right away. - m3arvk, on 02/25/2009, -4/+3"That looks retarted."
- Armitage2k, on 02/26/2009, -4/+1yep... you suck.
- CrudOMatic, on 02/26/2009, -5/+1Useless crap. Gnome sucks too. KDE is a lot better.
- pobst, on 02/25/2009, -11/+6Wait a minute, let me get this straight: I can change my icons on Linux?
Holy crap! When will other OS's get this ability? - DivineMonkey, on 02/25/2009, -9/+4Gnome got boring for me, always the same boringness. Switched to KDE 4.2 at the weekend and never going back to Gnome =)
- DivineMonkey, on 02/25/2009, -9/+2Digg, the place where you get buried for having a personal preference....
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