dedanna1029 wrote:Now see, this is what I mean. If they had given us choices in themes, etc. to begin with, I *might* have taken a closer look.
Got thinking about this statement, and came to realize,,, no. With all else it's lacking that I really do need, none of those things having anything to do with looks, but with function, I really don't think I would've gone much further with it anyway. I've left it in the dust pretty much already; sometimes I get in the mood to play with something different, and go into it on Arch to play for a day or so, but always end up back in good ol' Gnome 2. I miss my own functionality; the looks can be hacked away 'til the cows come home manually, but there are functions that can't, and that was always the important thing to me.
viking60 wrote:It looks like this is based on clearlooks.
Yeah, but it's not clearlooks-
colors, which is a different thing.
which is here.
perfectska04 was a perfect genius with this one, so much so that it was requested, right off the bat, when he came out with it, for it to be put into so many distribution's repos. It, along with the GNOME-colors-icon-themes he had, I could have whatever window title bar I wanted, and the colour would match the clearlooks-colors theme. It's in yaourt - check it out, and you'll see what I mean. People requested other colours from him, and there were those too, that took off themselves with other colours for it; one being aapgorilla at the MDV forum, who did up a shade of purple for me. Can't find the thread now, but it is over there.
With it, I could have whatever window themes I wanted; the title bars, what-have-you, and everything would match even still, to where I could see what I was doing. With it, I could have my transparent panel or panels (either one), with transparency in whatever amount so that I could see what I was clicking up when (my eyesight has become poor with age, along with my ability to type very long from the discs in my back and carpal tunnel; which feed off each other.
). With it, I could have whatever launchers I wanted on my panel(s), whatever applets, whatever anything I wanted and needed. Just go back over some of the old desktops I
posted in the desktop thread, for that matter, what everyone posted there, and you'll see what I mean. It looked good, was very functional
for me, and nothing on this earth ever beat it edit:
and it was still a veritable PLAYGROUND for geeks; I was always truly in the sandbox with it, or on the swings, or climbing trees, for that matter. With all this having been said, I am glad it works for you.
I'm seriously thinking about getting one of the old Arch disks out, and reformatting/reinstalling that drive back to Gnome 2 - downgrading would be way too much of a hassle now. Or, simply see what dynebolic's doing these days, if I can figure some room to back up that drive.
*siiiiiiiiigggh...
I think it is normal for conservative users to react negatively to so much change. After some testing I am quite happy with it.
