Wow - GNOME Themes

[TnT]

Redid my system cause I moved some hard drives around. Finally got GNOME 2.6. Just went through http://art.gnome.org and I'm very impressed by the themes and icon sets people have made these days.

I'm currently using:
Controls - Aluminum Alloy Volcanic
Window Border - Aging Gorilla
Icons - Noia Warm

I had a tough time choosing between Noia Warm and Gartoon, but Noia Warm just fits the other two better.

[leech]

Yeah, that Gartoon icon theme is pretty sweet. I was doing the same thing the other day! Playing around with the Gnome 2.6 theme stuff. Just barely upgraded? Gnome 2.8 is supposed to be out on Sept. 15th! Not sure all what they added to it, but it seems to be getting better all the time. Though I'm sure some people will still whine that x feature isn't in 2.x, but was there in 1.4. I'm glad the Open Source community can give us a nice clean desktop and one that fits all the power-users needs. Plus a million other WM's Choice is good

Leech

[TnT]

Yeah, I know 2.8 is coming somewhat soon, but I don't get much time to mess with my system anymore.

Actually there is one feature I've been complaining about that used to be in 1.4. The ability to have a panel be ignored when maximizing.

Question: GNOME didn't create an Office (or whatever it is called) menu in my applications menu. Is there a way for it to make it and load all the icons automatically like it does for the other menus when I install stuff? For example, when I installed Totem an icon was placed into my Multimedia menu.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

KDE > GNOME

[leech]

I think the menu thing is dependant upon your distro. Generally speaking Debian will add things to it's menu, though I noticed with somethings, it requires a logout/login for it to appear... and other things just don't pop up in the menu (or I just couldn't find them in a logical place) A good example of this is the nvidia-settings program. Couldn't for the life of me figure out where it put it in the menu.

Mandrake (last one I used was 9.2) did this pretty well, but really, they should all start following the freedesktop.org standard and create menu entries in both KDE and Gnome.

@Chrono Wanderer

KDE is nice... but I just can't get used to the themes. Plastik is nice, but most of the others distract from what you're trying to do. Kind of like a fun park where you're trying to decide what ride to get on, and all the while there are those annoying people trying to guess your weight or get you to shoot at wooden ducks with a squirt gun.

To me, KDE is for playing around with the GUI and seeing the 'cool' things they did. Gnome is good for going straight for the work. Or maybe it's because KDE still reminds me too much of windows (with their themes, though I know you can configure it) I still remember using KDE 1.0, and how I didn't like it because it was too 'windowsish'. But then I used enlightenment which rocked! Anyone have any idea if that is EVER going to reach DR0.17?

Leech

[TnT]

About the icons in menus. It is controlled by FAMD (file alteration monitor daemon). For some reason the icons appeared after a few reboots. I only made two changes that I could think of that would do this. I turned on gdm and I loaded my account with a different language just to see what it was like.