[SOLVED] making GUI look pretty

BarefootSoul83 · 2009-10-19 16:59:02

I know I can just browse through xfce-look and stuff like that

but I want to hear what the community likes... any suggestions for themes, launch bars, or just flat out "neat" stuff... etc... for

gnome .... xfce4 .....kde

Thanks

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Zeist · 2009-10-19 17:12:43

I like Awesome.

Awesome can be oh so pretty.

BarefootSoul83 · 2009-10-19 17:13:55

can you post a link for that?

Zeist · 2009-10-19 17:22:03

http://awesome.naquadah.org/

I'm not so sure that is what you are looking for though.

flamelab · 2009-10-19 17:24:56

Install kde and experiment with plasmoids and themes.

skottish · 2009-10-19 18:04:15

Here's what you do. Go into the screen shot thread and look at what others have done. Large numbers of the screen shots provide information within the picture itself. If not, usually someone, maybe you, comes along and asks about it. The thing is that this thread is going to go nowhere because no one except you knows what you like.

BarefootSoul83 · 2009-10-19 18:07:27

I get ya...but the thread is asking what other people like...I was just trying to get some insight on whats popular...

anonymous_user · 2009-10-19 18:42:03

Maybe you can get some ideas from the Artwork and Screenshots section of the forum.

RetroX · 2009-10-19 20:14:56

It all depends on the desktop you choose, really.

GNOME is the best all-around desktop. It has a decently good look to it, and has really good performance.
Xfce is very similar to GNOME (or, at least in my opinion), although with a few less features, but better performance.
KDE is the feature-full desktop with tons of appearance options and tons of features you may or may not want. Performance-wise, it's a lot slower.
There are other good desktops that you can install, but if you're talking about appearance, I'd have to mention these three.

Personally, I like GNOME the best, but it's up to your tastes. All three can run Compiz. In fact, I'm pretty sure that any desktop can run Compiz with the right configuration.

For me, I made my own desktop wallpaper in GIMP, and I'm using GNOME with Compiz. All of the GTK, Metacity, and Icon themes can be mixed-and matched (and in most cases, colors can be swapped as well). If you have the hard drive space, you can make a separate partition (no more than 15 GiB is needed) and make a separate installation of Arch, where you can mess around with the various desktops. Then, once you decide what you want, install it on the partition you're actually going to be using.

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flamelab · 2009-10-19 21:43:51

RetroX wrote:

Performance-wise, it's a lot slower..

IMHO, it isn't. Very responsive and configurable.

AngryKoala · 2009-10-19 21:52:15

flamelab wrote:

RetroX wrote:
Performance-wise, it's a lot slower..
IMHO, it isn't. Very responsive and configurable.

Same Here

Jamie · 2009-10-19 21:59:38

RetroX wrote:

GNOME is the best all-around desktop.

I agree. It's good enough without being overkill.

Flamelab wrote:

(about KDE...) Very responsive and configurable.

I agree... if you have the hardware. KDE, in my opinion, has "way" too many configuration options and gets too far away from "KISS" for me.

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RetroX · 2009-10-20 00:30:48

flamelab wrote:

RetroX wrote:
Performance-wise, it's a lot slower..
IMHO, it isn't. Very responsive and configurable.

On a newer processor, you probably won't really notice the difference. On my snapshot-from-2001 processor, you certainly will.

What I meant for KDE was that it has many configurations. As in, a lot more than GNOME, Xfce, or any other desktop. Now, some people find that as a very good thing, while others find it as overkill. Personally, KDE has way more than I want, and with what I'll be using it for, it's overkill. However, if I had a newer and better computer, I'd probably think a bit differently.

userlander · 2009-10-20 01:04:58

RetroX wrote:

It all depends on the desktop you choose, really.
GNOME is the best all-around desktop.

/ignores flame bait.

just kidding - I know you didn't intend it that way.

KDE is the feature-full desktop with tons of appearance options and tons of features you may or may not want. Performance-wise, it's a lot slower.

as others have said, that's not necessarily the case.

If you have the hard drive space, you can make a separate partition (no more than 15 GiB is needed) and make a separate installation of Arch, where you can mess around with the various desktops. Then, once you decide what you want, install it on the partition you're actually going to be using.

You could do that, but imo it's not really necessary to go to such extremes. You can easily install and remove any desktop/wm on a single installation. If you're really concerned about keeping your testing separate from your active install, creating a separate user should be sufficient. Besides, if you have that extra diskspace to make a new install, you could just leave gnome/kde installed. It's not going to hurt anything to have them sitting there unused.

Gen2ly · 2009-10-20 01:11:05

skottish wrote:

Here's what you do. Go into the screen shot thread and look at what others have done. Large numbers of the screen shots provide information within the picture itself...

You mean the OpenBox screenshot thread .

dalingrin · 2009-10-20 04:11:13

Jamie wrote:

RetroX wrote:
GNOME is the best all-around desktop.
I agree. It's good enough without being overkill.
Flamelab wrote:
(about KDE...) Very responsive and configurable.
I agree... if you have the hardware. KDE, in my opinion, has "way" too many configuration options and gets too far away from "KISS" for me.

Options are a good thing in my opinion. To each his own, of course.
I personally like the configurability of KDE vs digging through the windows registry....Err I mean gconf to change a setting.

I kid, I kid.

stefanwilkens · 2009-10-20 10:29:18

For GNOME, quite a lot of people seem to use the gnome-colors iconset:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ … tent=82562

this is often combined with the shiki-colors GTK theme:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ … tent=86717

Perry3D · 2009-10-20 13:47:49

I like the hydroxygen iconset: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show. … tent=88575
It is also in the AUR.

BarefootSoul83 · 2009-10-20 15:29:45

thanks for all the input!! =-)

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