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#181

A better question is, “Why should it matter?” I don’t think you’ve sufficiently made a case for why having a similar look-and-feel to a rival OS is a bad thing.

It’s obvious that they’re trying to take advantage of UI familiarity, which is a no-brainer if your goal is to get more people using your distro (especially casual users).

There’s no point. Last I saw there weren’t even any gconf hooks for the new GDM, so anything they’d do would be hacky and wouldn’t be relevant in a short while anyway with 3.0 coming out. There are plenty of other more worthwhile things on which they can focus their resources. Yes, this includes branding.

If you really want a customizable login manager, you can compile GDM 2.27 or before, or better yet find someone with who has already done so and has a PPA available. Or use KDM to load your GNOME session, there are a lot of nice Ubuntu themes for KDM on kde-look.org.

#182

having changed a thing on my desktop, but just thought this shot of compiz cube is pretty sweet.

#183

Upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 a few days ago:

#184

yeah, the new ambiance theme is just beautiful.

I see you have the top and bottom panel default going on. do you leave it as it is? I always find having top and bottom panels at the same time takes up too much verticle space. since most monitors are wide screen, we have little verticle space to start with, so i usually remove one.

#185

I occasionally remove one of them but my monitor is 1600x900 so I still have plenty of room even with the two bars.

And the new theme is finally something I can live with!

#186

mine is 1680x1050, the screen size is 22", but i think with wide screen and the same diagonal size, we actually got less real estate than before. Sometimes I miss the vertical room.

#187

My last computer was a 1024x768 laptop so it feels like I have more vertical real estate than god right now.

#188

Just found a really awesome GNOME theme called elementary. I also installed the Docky bar.

Beautiful, isn’t it?

#189

yah, i have both of those installed. i use ambiance though, because i heard darker screens actually saves power :stuck_out_tongue: but what i love the most about elementary is the loading bar, it’s just beautiful.

i love the look of docky, i wouldn’t get the folder icons to slide out though, i’ve seen some people do that. I’ve always gone back to Cairo Dock, i guess i am used to it.

it sucks that the banshee panel applet isn’t show up correctly. what version of banshee are you using? cause my banshee actually shows up correct. Right now I am at Banshee 1.7.4

#190

I’m using 1.6.2 – that’s the one from the repo’s. I added the banshee ppa but it didn’t update it to 1.7.4 though, not sure why. I’d really love to fix that applet.

#191

i am on the banshee-stable ppa now, but i was using banshee-unstable and banshee-daily before, i don’t know if the 1.7.4 was upgraded with those.

PPA for banshee-unstable
ppa:banshee-team/banshee-unstable

PPA for banshee-daily
ppa:banshee-team/banshee-daily

PPA for banshee-stable
ppa:banshee-team/ppa

(i am assuming you use Ubuntu cause of your indicator applets)

maybe one of these will work.

#192

I actually just added the daily ppa and it fixed my problems, and was going to edit my post so you didn’t have to go to the trouble :stuck_out_tongue: Shucks!

Yes, oh it looks so much better now. Thanks anyway :slight_smile:

#193

#194

nice KDE desktop, is that 4.5?

AWN is really jumping ahead of all the docks on the gnome side in terms of the look and function. even though they are still a tiny bit unstable. i’ll give that a try soon and post what my desktop looks liek then.

#195

Yep, KDE 4.5.1 in fact, with the “Elegance” plasma theme. Wallpaper is my favorite band in the world, Opeth.

#196

I just installed a sweet new theme for Ubuntu:

Elegant, isn’t it?

#197

love it, that is mazing, what theme is it called? i think i’ve seen it arond. the new banshee icon is sweet. i think they have monochromed icons for dropbox now. though i am sure they don’t have it for x-chat…

they are looking for a new icon for Pithos… i dont know what you can do about that blue info icon… if that can be changed it’d be perfect.

#198

The theme calls itself ‘Elegant GNOME Theme’ and you can find the PPA and installation instruction here

Note that I’m also using the Nautilus-Elementary mod, which is included in the packages during installation.

And I’m sure that color can be changed, not sure where the option is though.

#199

i added conky to my desktop…

#200

Because I have nothing better to do, I’m reviving this dead topic. Enjoy.