Desktop-Screenshot thread

**Tyr_7BE** · 05-23-2006, 02:16 PM

So I finally decided to man up and put Ubuntu's Dapper Beta on my box. Sweet jesus is it ever nice. By now we've had cairo in GTK for a while, and the usual Human engine is starting to see some of the effects. The default theme is quite acceptable (after you change the colour scheme). It's also possible to apt-get install Banshee music player, which is basically Rhythmbox on steroids. Everything Rhythmbox does, but with a nicer gui, DAAP music share support out of the box, tag editing, and cover art display.

But by far the nicest addition is the availability of compiz window manager. I just put it on. It's a bit buggy, but nothing too serious. Finally, linux gets expose support (just hit F12). Plus wobbly windows, and a nice glass effect in the title bar of every window, a la windows vista.

Check it out. http://tyr_7be.tripod.com

**pbharris** · 05-23-2006, 11:30 PM

Originally Posted by Tyr_7BE

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But by far the nicest addition is the availability of compiz window manager. I just put it on. It's a bit buggy, but nothing too serious. Finally, linux gets expose support (just hit F12). Plus wobbly windows, and a nice glass effect in the title bar of every window, a la windows vista.

Check it out. http://tyr_7be.tripod.com

i think i want some of you music and movies man!! nice setup

**Schotty** · 05-24-2006, 12:21 AM

Tyr, appears that the wait may be worth it. Seems that some of the features that SuSE rolled out recently are going to be in Ubuntu soon.

**shebang** · 06-30-2006, 10:45 PM

Hrm.. Well, this is my current desktop. Using Novell's Latest GNOME Menu, Slab - I /really/ love it. I cannot explain how much I am enjoying this piece of software. Its really cool. Helpful too..

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6...hotslab9wx.png

Using Ubuntu Dapper with a lot of modifications. Got it from src, and edited it to make more ubuntu/gnome friendly rather than SuSE friendly. Its called slab in the current gnome cvs tree.

**Tyr_7BE** · 07-03-2006, 07:08 PM

That looks gorgeous! I love NLD. I really hope Novell manages to pull it together, as their desktop team's work is unparalelled.

Speaking of interesting UI elements...

http://tyr_7be.tripod.com

**shebang** · 07-04-2006, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by Tyr_7BE

That looks gorgeous! I love NLD. I really hope Novell manages to pull it together, as their desktop team's work is unparalelled.

Speaking of interesting UI elements...

http://tyr_7be.tripod.com

Nice - Yeah, I just tried Gimmie yesterday, took longer than expected to compile though, but yeah - it looks great. Now all they need to do is change those green, pink colors or give an option to change it.. i have to look at the source though..

Anyways, thats an awesome desktop [yours] and yeah SLED10 and NLD10 will be [hopefully] the best desktops yet.. and like you said their work is unparalleled.