Linux Fashion Thread

Well, I was bored and decided to come up with this thread. Time to get your Linux/BSD bling on!

Please post a screenshot of your desktop, and tell us how you've achieved the look you have.

heres mine first:


I've just got KDE 3.5.5 running on Ubuntu Edgy Eft. Using the Crystal Window decoration, and qt curve, Trishna style. Icon set is Crystal Diamond. I don't have any Beryl/Compiz running. All the addons I use are available from http://www.kde-look.org.

Now, let's see yours!

 

What music player and skin is that? ^^^^

Here is my Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Desktop. I just installed it yesterday, I still working on it.

I DO have Beryl/Compiz running because it's my first time messing with it and I'm a eye candy nut I haven't tweaked it perfectly yet. Yes I'll probably get tired of it and it might be unnecessary, but Vista Aero is also unnecessary and Beryl completely owns Aero. Works Flawless so far.

Here are some Photos ... One just of desktop, and the rest are of the Beryl Cube.
Click photo for full size.

 

I'm at work at the moment so don't have access to my laptop but guys I gotta say, those screens beat the pants off anything MS or Apple can come up with!

 

I'm sorry mine's not as creative as the others'... I went for more of a Vista-ish look

 

Well, Ubuntu 6.10 running GNOME, Beryl, and Heliodor with the Murrine GTK engine using MurrinaCappuccino and the Murrine title bar.

edit: And a lil' bit o' blue grass.

 

Mine's not fashionable at all. I don't use eyecandy and I stick to ClearLooks theme

@LIVEFROMNYC - Looks like Lysander is running Amarok. It's perhaps the best program for music by performance standards (search, scroll, features, etc)...but I don't like it.

 

You guys are making me want to install Linux again! I think I will wait until Kubuntu 7.04 is out (I'm pretty excited for it) and see how well I can get it to work. Nice work.

 

i'd like to post a screenshot....but i'm afraid i'd embarrass myself, (Gentoo + CLI here) lol

 

It is indeed Amarok. Kubuntu's default music player. if you are wondering about the amarok skin, amarok uses whatever system colours you have chosen, so you don't have to worry about skinning it.

It still looks great! Looks very streamlined. If you looked carefully at mine, you'd notice I'm using Vista window buttons too.

Yeah, I understand sometimes the candy can get too sweet. I don't mind a bit of it (when running Beryl I had this FANTASTIC Doom 3 skydome, that wrapped 360 degrees). But, I didn't like the battery life hit that using accelerated desktop gave me, so I turned it off. One thing I did miss though was the taskbar window previews, but a package called taskbarV2 adds that to KDE anyways.

Yeah, a bit bloated for some peoples tastes. But I think it has the best lyrics/band info integration of any program out there.

 

I just don't like KDE too much. Don't ask me why, I just favor Gnome better.

I'm pretty sure Amarok works with Gnome, but alot of software that I might like is made for KDE and doesn't work with Gnome.

I also wish the "Add Remove Programs" list would separate (K)Ubuntu desktop apps from Ubuntu.

 

Well, everything from one would run on the other (unless its something like desktop widgets), it just means you run two sets of program libraries.

 

Same here. KDE is ugly.

Or they look uglier in GNOME. Take K3B for example - great program - but looks gross under Ubuntu.

Well, I agree with you on the aesthetics. Synaptic does tell you which programs "integrate nicely" for either Ubuntu or Kubuntu. If it did prevent (by separating out) the programs, then we wouldn't get access to good programs like K3B and Amarok, which a lot of GNOME users use. And they are lazy enough to not want to compile tarballs.

 

Ubuntu screenshots.
Kubuntu screenshots.

 

I'm experimenting with a new look at the moment. Trying to have a gnome dock the only thing that sits on my desktop.



And the obligatory cube shot again.

 

for some reason I just don't dig the autohide...

here's mine right now...

 

Looks great everyone....

I'll just sit here and mutter darkly about the state of the ATI drivers for a while.

 

I run all my eye candy on ATi graphics (X1400). Apart from no AIGLX, and poor gaming performance, I go alright.

 

Hmm... is that the Murrina engine I see? Looks nice!

 

indeed! I've actually changed my window border and murrina theme since, but I love the fact that each Murrina theme is based just on a markup file, and it gets rendered instead of loading pixmaps into memory.

I actually found an emerald theme that I like, I'm using that now.

 

My current Kubuntu setup; 80GB for Linux, 25GB for games under XP.

 

Here's my test ubuntu linux background:

 

See here for my stuff.

 

@Zellio & Lysander - I merged up the threads.