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iindigo:
Well if this thread has proven anything, it's that people's computer use needs, habits, and preferences vary wildly.


--- Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on March 13, 2010, 05:15:40 AM ---The Windows 7 windowing decorations are a straight copy of the most popular QT theme (Oxygen?).  The issue is that Ubuntu (combined with the terribleness that was KDE 4.0) has people convinced that Gnome is the prettiest "Linux" there is, which is completely not true, according to most people's aesthetics.

Honestly, Linux can be quite beautiful.  Most of us just don't feel the need to make it so.

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I believe you, it just seems that well-done Gnome, KDE, xfce, etc themes are in the minority. The last time I had a look around places like gnome-look.org I can honestly say that I was not impressed at all. Perhaps I was just looking in the wrong places... do you have any suggestions as to where these aesthetically pleasing Linux themes might be hiding?

disassembler:

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--- Quote from: iindigo on March 11, 2010, 11:21:04 AM ---A better screenshot can be found here:

I don't like it at all. The colors are weird (but Ubuntu seems to have a penchant for those), the widget arrangement is different from everything else for no particular reason, and the whole mess has an air of "amateur-made XP theme" around it. I don't find the new icons particularly impressive, either... the old tango ones were much nicer.

Why don't we see more Linux themes sitting in the realm of modern and cutting edge?



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Linux wasn't meant to be Apple, nor was it meant to be windows. It's an alternative.

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Regardless, I know a handful of freelance designers who could make Linux look pretty badass (sans Mac & Windows)! Not that it wasn't fine the way it was...I just don't see a problem with making something great even better.

P.S. The comment wasn't meant to be obnoxious or anything, just saying I know of a few people who could make Linux look pretty sweet without mimicking Win or Mac.

nstgc:
@Ace: Being able to see your desktop or not doesn't matter. Being able to see your open windows and navigate among them easily is what matters.

@iindigo: You're thinking too small. Why talk about themes? They are little more than reskins. For a different experience you need to replace the UI, or at least give it an overhaul.

iindigo:

--- Quote from: nstgc on March 13, 2010, 03:23:10 PM ---@iindigo: You're thinking too small. Why talk about themes? They are little more than reskins. For a different experience you need to replace the UI, or at least give it an overhaul.

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That's true. The UI's look does make some amount of difference, though; for example, working with an XP install with no theme changes will sometimes give me a headache after a while because Luna's colors are too bright/strong.

What are most Linux window mangers like in terms of functionality these days? Last one I really played with was GNOME, which seemed fairly complete, but lacked certain things (like an Exposé equiv) and WindowMaker (a clone of the old NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP window manager).

nstgc:
Gnome by itself uses Metacity which is intentionally bare. Ubuntu comes with Compiz Fusion preinstalled which replaces Metacity. You need to enable certain feature in the GUI, but it has more features than OS X. As you can see in the screen shot, you can install an OS X like dock. It doesn't just look like the OSX dock, it functionality is similar as well. Last I used it (about a year ago) it was still kind of buggy so I'm not using it now. I don't need a dock nor do I need a task bar. I just take my cursor to the top of my screen and hit the top mouse button. It spreads all open windows out. I believe thats what Exposé does.

[edit] I don't suggest viewing the various YouTube videos that have been uploaded demonstrating the 1337ness of Compiz since all they really show is the eye candy part of it.

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