Hello everyone in the RH forum. Isn't it nice to have a place to discuss appropriate to our distros. I think a round of applause to the site admins (no clapping smilies...hint hint)

My question is about customizing the desktop, I use KDE, dunno why but hey thats what I chose!
I've seen the wonderful desktop screenshots featured in these forums and want to do it myself. I know a lot of these people are running Gentoo but most mention KDE at some point so I guess I'm asking for a good NEWBIE customisation guide.

I dream of floating, transparent windows displaying pointless info about my CPU's love affair with the heatsink, sweeping rounded control panels filled with pretty, glowing icons which I have totally forgotton what they do... sorry went off track.

Any ideas guys?

Thanks in advance.

I don't use KDE, but you might want to check out:

www.kde-look.org

hope that helps.

Nice site, I'll start by rooting around in there.

Thanks.

BTW any tutorial links still appreciated!

I use to use KDE but I moved to Ximian Desktop 2. Its interface is pretty clean and you can do a lot to make it look nice. Here is the link, although the screenshots aren't too impressive.

http://www.ximian.com/products/desktop/screenshots.html

I know this doesn't answer your question about what to do with KDE, but its just a suggestion.

Well I am looking at any suggestion, not just KDE.
I want a fantastic customized desktop with newsfeeds, email, sys stats just like the ones you see here in the desktop images threads. I also want semi-transparent windows!

God I'm greedy...

With KDE, there was something called Superkaramba I tried to get working. Although I could never get it to completely work, the people who did get it to work had some amazing desktops.

http://www.kde-look.org/index.php?xc...5119b037d808f6