I love my desktop

headlessb · 10-28-2005, 10:49 AM

I just love the desktop setup I have here on my machine and wanted to share it with everyone, here's the link:

http://www.headlessbill.com/Screenshot.png

and here's what I used to get all of this up and running the way it is:

1 - I'm using gdesklets for the bottom menubar and status indicators, the desklets used are:
a - Rhythmlet by Alex Revo
b - Starterbar by Martin Grimme
c - FTB by Kevin Kane

2 - The metacity themes I'm using are:
a - Mike 2.3 by Brian Carper which was updated from Milk 2.0 by roberto with distro permission of Max Rudberg for the window controls
b - RMild-Flat by Richard James
c - garGANTuan icons by epic bard who got permission from mattahan, which is the original creator of the icon set, to port it to linux.

3 - The wallpaper and splash I'm using is called GNOME clean desktop/splash by Michal Pecyna

4 - The Fonts I'm using for the desktop font is called Corpulent Caps Shadow BRK

5 - The theme I'm using for firefox is called Azerty II

If you have any questions or comments, just lemme know ^^

Oh, and I just wanted to say: "DEBIAN OWNZ", hehe

nilleso · 10-28-2005, 10:55 AM

very, very nice
I love it too!

fouldsy · 10-28-2005, 11:30 AM

Looks nice + clean, glad you like Dbian too! A bit too many icons for me though - could you get any more icons on your starterbar too ;-) ?

reddazz · 10-28-2005, 11:55 AM

Very nice. I'd have preferred the color of the desktop text to be dark though.

headlessb · 10-28-2005, 04:58 PM

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Originally posted by fouldsy
Looks nice + clean, glad you like Dbian too! A bit too many icons for me though - could you get any more icons on your starterbar too ;-) ?

Actually, you can get quite a few icons on there. It allows you to shrink the starter bar to a smaller scale in the config, it's quite nice ^^.

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Very nice. I'd have preferred the color of the desktop text to be dark though.

Well, personally, I used to be a dark background person myself. But I decided to go with a lighter theme because of the case I bought. I bout the XCcube EZ18 by aopen. So this theme seems to fit it quite nicely ^^.

headlessb · 10-28-2005, 04:59 PM

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Originally posted by nilleso
very, very nice
I love it too!

Thanks for your post ^^. I'm glad you love it too ^^.

reddazz · 10-29-2005, 02:16 AM

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Originally posted by headlessb
Actually, you can get quite a few icons on there. It allows you to shrink the starter bar to a smaller scale in the config, it's quite nice ^^.

Well, personally, I used to be a dark background person myself. But I decided to go with a lighter theme because of the case I bought. I bout the XCcube EZ18 by aopen. So this theme seems to fit it quite nicely ^^.

I didn't mean that the background should be dark, it looks nice as it is. I meant that the text on the desktop icons would look nice if it was a dark shade e.g. greyish, very light black or even the color of the wallpaper text instead of white. When I use GNOME this is one thing that bugs, its hard work to change some elements of a desktop theme.

headlessb · 10-29-2005, 09:56 AM

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I didn't mean that the background should be dark, it looks nice as it is. I meant that the text on the desktop icons would look nice if it was a dark shade e.g. greyish, very light black or even the color of the wallpaper text instead of white. When I use GNOME this is one thing that bugs, its hard work to change some elements of a desktop theme.

yea, good point, I do agree with you on that one, I tried getting the color of the font to change, I even downloaded some software that supposedly did it for you, but nothing seemed to work, heh. Supposedly there is a way tho :S.

jlinkels · 10-29-2005, 01:29 PM

Nice to see that you are working with Inkscape. I am a fan of this too. (Former Corel addict)

Love the design, but the Gnome style is clearly recognizable.

jlinkels