October 2006 Screenshots

ingvildr · 2006-10-09 20:53:43

openbox (gnomeless) and visibility

bogomipz · 2006-10-09 21:41:47

icrave wrote:

Sigi wrote:
archuser wrote:
That looks like a cool desktop. What is it?
Looks like xfce, rox for the icons on the desktop and file manager, superkaramba and conky. I really like the icons, anyone who knows more?
I think that's kde with superkaramba and rox file-manager.

The panel is rox, not kde.

I used those icons 4-5 years ago, I can dig up the name of the set if you want me to, archuser.

lyrae · 2006-10-10 00:13:24

glow wrote:

lyrae wrote:
Thanks.
The font is called lime and is part of artwiz fonts. You can get the wallpaper from http://www.skinbase.org/rate.php?skins=32826.
Thanks very much.
Openbox, xfce4-panel, xcompmgr, & conky (totally ripped off from lyrae).
Sorry it's 2MB, so unless you like orange...

Very nice. Where can I get the wallpaper from?

Cirdan · 2006-10-10 02:42:45

<a href="http://www.christiangaming.org/graphics/users/stormtrooper/laptopdesktop.jpg">Click click click</a>
Fluxbox

Master Beef · 2006-10-10 04:00:11

tweaked mine abit:
ob: modified carnival
gtk: murrina graphite
icons: etiquitte

yankees26 · 2006-10-10 10:51:39

Master Beef wrote:

tweaked mine abit:
ob: modified carnival
gtk: murrina graphite
icons: etiquitte

Nice desktop. And a TC:E fan 8) How's it run on your computer? And what wallpaper is that?

Cimi · 2006-10-10 15:20:54

Showing new murrine stuff...

z3ppelin · 2006-10-10 15:33:10

Cimi wrote:

Showing new murrine stuff...

nice
how to make my murrine look like that ?

pressh · 2006-10-10 15:40:44

bogomipz wrote:

I used those icons 4-5 years ago, I can dig up the name of the set if you want me to, archuser.

icon set is called 'noia'

Cimi · 2006-10-10 15:47:40

z3ppelin wrote:

Cimi wrote:
Showing new murrine stuff...
nice
how to make my murrine look like that ?

you need to wait next release ^^

bogomipz · 2006-10-10 16:40:59

pressh wrote:

bogomipz wrote:
I used those icons 4-5 years ago, I can dig up the name of the set if you want me to, archuser.
icon set is called 'noia'

right, memory is not my best side

Master Beef · 2006-10-10 18:48:09

yankees26 wrote:

Nice desktop. And a TC:E fan 8) How's it run on your computer? And what wallpaper is that?

thanks! tc:e runs nicely i use 2x aa 8x af and vsync and it never goes lower than 85 fps 8) . i don't remember where i got the wallpaper from but i uploaded it here

z3ppelin · 2006-10-10 18:54:53

Just ported old rezza's openbox3 gillouche theme to cgwd

erikl · 2006-10-10 19:14:19

z3ppelin wrote:

Just ported old rezza's openbox3 gillouche theme to cgwd

That's hot
How did you remove the icon from the menu? (gnome/dist logo menu1 menu2 menu3)

z3ppelin · 2006-10-10 19:35:55

erikl wrote:

z3ppelin wrote:
Just ported old rezza's openbox3 gillouche theme to cgwd
That's hot
How did you remove the icon from the menu? (gnome/dist logo menu1 menu2 menu3)

somewhere in gnome-control-panel are some options about menus, and there you need to uncheck 'show icons in menus' or smoething like this

xterminus · 2006-10-10 20:49:06

I'm still slowly tweaking my background generator, and was wondering if someone more familiar with colors and graphics could give me some tips.

I'm trying to pick a color to surround any selected image that looks "good". This is turning out to be a real problem, mostly because I know next to nothing about color selection.

I wont bore you with perl code, but basicly I can retrieve the following values on an image using the perl imagemagick interface....

# 0  - Red Depth
# 1  - Red Minima
# 2  - Red Maxima
# 3  - Red Mean
# 4  - Red Deviation
# 5  - Blue Depth
# 6  - Blue Minima
# 7  - Blue Maxima
# 8  - Blue Mean
# 9  - Blue Deviation
# 10 - Green Depth
# 11 - Green Minima
# 12 - Green Maxima
# 13 - Green Mean
# 14 - Green Deviation

I dont know what most of those mean, but I'm current grabbing the values of red, green, and blue's "mean", adding them up and dividing by three for an average brightness of the image. If it exceeds a particular theshold I swap out conky conky configs.

So after that's done, I flood fill a background area with these mean values, it the form of rgb( $red, $blue, $green ) as derived from above.

This looks good some of the time, (you can see an example here in my current screenshot but I figured there has to be some logic or way of picking a contrasting color that does not look like crap.

Here are some techniques I've tried. Maybe someone can offer suggestions as to why this doesn't seem to pick decent colors.

I tried rotating the hue 180 degrees out of phase. More often than not, this picks a really awful color to contrast with.
I tried limiting the brightness of the background to 75%. This works sometimes, but often results in really dark colors being selected.
I tried setting the saturation at 50%, which results in a lot of grays, and then at 75%, which still results in a lot of grays.

Is there anything else I can try, or some formula to pick a color I'm not aware of?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

codemac · 2006-10-10 22:07:43

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2006/HPL-2006-10.pdf

That's a hefty algorithm though...

I want to investigate this as well, I'd like to be able to pick any background and just have a good color to splash around the rest of the screen.

allucid · 2006-10-10 22:18:19

A while back I remember seeing a photo website that would automagically determine aesthetically pleasing colors to frame the image by scanning it's color contents. It picked out 4 colors and was written in php (he posted the source). I'll see if I can find it.

caust1c · 2006-10-10 22:41:37

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rab · 2006-10-10 23:50:18

codemac · 2006-10-11 01:54:18

Playing around with conky.

The Last.fm friend's thing in there was actually a little bit of a pain todo because there was no direct feed for that info, I had to write a little aggregation script myself.

http://codemac.net/config/ for more information.

xterminus · 2006-10-11 04:01:29

codemac wrote:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2006/HPL-2006-10.pdf
That's a hefty algorithm though...
I want to investigate this as well, I'd like to be able to pick any background and just have a good color to splash around the rest of the screen.

Thanks, that document is fascinating. I found a CPAN module that (mostly) meets my needs for now. I still have some tweaking to do, and there is one huge bug I need to figure out (basicly, if a photo is too saturated, I can't grab enough of a color to generate a usable palate, and the palate ends up all being white or pinkish.

Eventually I'll figure out how to grab the mean of major areas of a photo, which should allow me to generate even more eye-friendly schemes.

sandstorm · 2006-10-11 05:30:56

@ xterminus & codemac:

what is the name of the application seen on the right side in your screenshots, monitoring system components and system usage?

Thanks,
Martin

Gustavo · 2006-10-11 05:59:03

sandstorm wrote:

@ xterminus & codemac:
what is the name of the application seen on the right side in your screenshots, monitoring system components and system usage?
Thanks,
Martin

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=conky

xterminus · 2006-10-11 06:31:32

Thought I'd post an update, now that my background rotator/conkyconfig updater is nearly complete.

If you look, you'll notice that the conky configuration in each photo is different, with a different color palate. This is by design. Every time the wallpaper changes, the conky config gets a new color scheme and conky is told to reload it's config.

I was excited that it now mostly works - so I figured i'd post some screenies

PS: I accidently nuked a bunch of my screenshots, so here are two alternates. -- xterminus 2006/10/11

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