Graphical appearance of Ubuntu Gnome
Posted 03-03-2009 at 06:15 PM by herbie643
Tags colors, fonts, gnome, windows key
I'm an old Windows user who converted to Ubuntu in April 2008 and never looked back. Ubuntu does everything I need to do. Of course I'm just a Desktop user at home, but I've been in computers since 1976 so I have seen quite a few Operating Systems.
Windows, well, it's ok but not great. Very hard to reconfigure the appearance, at least the way I want to. Vista, omg, what a pain.
Ubuntu, a dream. Get all the themes you need from gnome-look.org.
The point of this entry is, The First Impression.
When a new user installs Ubuntu and wham; what I consider to be a hokey Login screen. Ok, you login and damn, that orange has to go. Now I have heard that Jaunty will be different. It's not released yet, so who knows.
What I did was use later was the gdm-sunrise-theme. Perfectly intune with the Ubuntu flavor. A beautiful, tasteful screen.
Login and I use the wallpaper of the same theme.
Next, get those fonts downsized. 10 is wayyyyyy too big. I use 8pt FreeSans. Now before you say they're too small, I'm almost 66 and wear glasses and have no problem reading anything.
Then customize those colors. I use a hue of brown, more like a lite tan.
Windows are #866C49
Input Boxes #8B6F48
Text Black
Selected #28220C
Selected Text White
Tooltips #866C49
Tooltip Text White
Controls Glossy
Window Border Stasz Full Gold (from gnome-look.org metacity)
Icons SudUbuntu http://www.gnome-look.org/content/sh...?content=93010
Pointer Obsidian http://www.kde-look.org/content/show...?content=73135
Since my computer is a laptop the fonts are smoothed (FULL)
No bottom Panel. Top panel is transparent. Consists of
WindowList & Volume Control. Thats it.
I installed gnome-main-menu and changed gconf-editor to use the
Windows Key apps>metacity>global_keybindings>panel_main_menu = Super_L
Configured the F10 key to open panel_run_dialog.
I felt this was no more complicated than Alt+F1 or Alt+F2 and easier too. Now if the new user is from Windows the natural inclination is to use the 'Windows key'. Well it won't do a thing. Now at least the menu comes up.
I could go on with the mods I made, eg. Nautilus-Actions
I added a bunch of my faves to the rightclick. Thanks to Grum for the new or not so new Advanced Actions adding the new x-nautilus-desktop and setting it. Now your new menu items appear.. May have to log off or maybe restart Nautilus.
Well I'm done. Comments, criticisms are welcomed.
Marshall
Windows, well, it's ok but not great. Very hard to reconfigure the appearance, at least the way I want to. Vista, omg, what a pain.
Ubuntu, a dream. Get all the themes you need from gnome-look.org.
The point of this entry is, The First Impression.
When a new user installs Ubuntu and wham; what I consider to be a hokey Login screen. Ok, you login and damn, that orange has to go. Now I have heard that Jaunty will be different. It's not released yet, so who knows.
What I did was use later was the gdm-sunrise-theme. Perfectly intune with the Ubuntu flavor. A beautiful, tasteful screen.
Login and I use the wallpaper of the same theme.
Next, get those fonts downsized. 10 is wayyyyyy too big. I use 8pt FreeSans. Now before you say they're too small, I'm almost 66 and wear glasses and have no problem reading anything.
Then customize those colors. I use a hue of brown, more like a lite tan.
Windows are #866C49
Input Boxes #8B6F48
Text Black
Selected #28220C
Selected Text White
Tooltips #866C49
Tooltip Text White
Controls Glossy
Window Border Stasz Full Gold (from gnome-look.org metacity)
Icons SudUbuntu http://www.gnome-look.org/content/sh...?content=93010
Pointer Obsidian http://www.kde-look.org/content/show...?content=73135
Since my computer is a laptop the fonts are smoothed (FULL)
No bottom Panel. Top panel is transparent. Consists of
WindowList & Volume Control. Thats it.
I installed gnome-main-menu and changed gconf-editor to use the
Windows Key apps>metacity>global_keybindings>panel_main_menu = Super_L
Configured the F10 key to open panel_run_dialog.
I felt this was no more complicated than Alt+F1 or Alt+F2 and easier too. Now if the new user is from Windows the natural inclination is to use the 'Windows key'. Well it won't do a thing. Now at least the menu comes up.
I could go on with the mods I made, eg. Nautilus-Actions
I added a bunch of my faves to the rightclick. Thanks to Grum for the new or not so new Advanced Actions adding the new x-nautilus-desktop and setting it. Now your new menu items appear.. May have to log off or maybe restart Nautilus.
Well I'm done. Comments, criticisms are welcomed.
Marshall
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