Getting Linux like Panther?

2 Dominatus
cannot you say how did you that menus on gnome-panel?

here is my current desktop, if someone is interested in:

apps are firefox'es download manager & fbpanel

it text on the panel with transparent icons

OFFTOPIC

does anyone know where grandmasta's graphite (the dark gray) metacity theme is?

all linux mac stuff

31mb

http://xpedition.mine.nu/linux/macosx.tar.gz

...and yes, it all pales in comparrison

not light bright and blue but these are mac themes I ported

http://kwh.kernow-gb.com/~bvc/theme/screen...MMX-Mercury.jpg

http://kwh.kernow-gb.com/~bvc/theme/screen...s/xi-albook.jpg

http://kwh.kernow-gb.com/~bvc/theme/screen.../xi-albook1.jpg

http://kwh.kernow-gb.com/~bvc/theme/screen...kin-classic.jpg

#299292

Yo BVC Nice to see you on the aqua soft,

all my stuff is here -> http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=5384

#299310

thx 4 d_welcome!

did you not make a very dark gray/almost black, square metacity with a few corner/positioned pieces? I thought it was you but maybe not. It had great code, and I'm horrible with metacity code...it makes me sick

I agreed above to a previous poster that the gnome stuff pales in comparrison. I should have added the fact that we are pretty limited with our toolkit as well, til cairo is added to gtk. I know you know that but I thought I better throw it in there for others that want to dis gnome themes.

#299319

who have a good guide for install gdesklet? i get some error

#300558

There's a gdesklets section on this forum

http://gnomesupport.org/forums/

with probably every problem. It's closed now but the info is still there.

#300620

Nope bvc I didnt make that metacity theme you speak of.. sounds cool though

#300824

I like linux, i want to use it, but usability and looks,... SUCKS

That's because linux developers and pro users... don't give a **** about visual appearence. I am a designer... so I basically want a good eyecatching sharp theme.

You are right... you can't do on linux what you do on windows... I am talking about themes, but the ugly foot itself has some pretty nice features. For instance... you don't need Avedesk anymore Linux has Icon stretching and PNG support wich is a good thing. I will post a screenshot here to see what I have accomplished on linux so far.

I managed to install XCOMPMGR (The drop shadow thingie) ... but... it seems it doesn't want to cooperate anymore )

#305785

1. Linux can look better than os x

2. xcompmgr is now unless, it is include in kde 3.4.2, its normal xcompmgr is locked

#305927

Hello

I managed to scribble something on Fedora 4. Looks pretty much close to MacOSX

Below it's a link to an article on my blog. It's written in Romanian, but you can click the thumbnails to view the full size images.

I want to know what you think .

By the way... The Metacity theme is modified by me. I recreated the images in Macromedia Fireworks from real MacOSX screenshots Enjoy

http://alexbuga.com/index.php?page=jurnal&detail=95

#310363

great, just one question. How did you get the shadows???

#310368

i managed to run xcompmgr again on Gnome

I forgot to install some X libraries. i figured it out why it wasn't cooperating

It seems that due to a bug, xcompmgr won't alow other apps that use alpha blending to run correctly

For instance... if i run xcompmgr then try to logout, the logout dialog won't appear.

#310578

I got the same bug but it looks perfect

#310621

Does anyone know where can I find a stable bug-free version of XCOMPMGR ?

#312772

Here are some icons from my Brazilian friend Everaldo... I hope I helped you

http://www.everaldo.com/downloads.htm

#312783

Does anyone know where can I find a stable bug-free version of XCOMPMGR ?

There is no bug free XCOMPMGR.

#312957

Thanks. Damn. It was so damn beautiful.

#315212

KCOMPMGR is bug free, (with a plugin (kde-apps.org)

#315985

but I guess it works only in KDE. I use GNOME... i'll try it. thanks

#317765

x.org 7 is now ready, some new cool feature are avalible, some for transparency. New integrated graph driver will help for have a decent speed on some nonsupported composite&damage extention card. Mostly ATI stuff...

and Arnauld make us a nice tutorial for skin KDE, it is very complete http://baghira.sourceforge.net/OS_Clone-en.php

#348597

That tutorial really is great!

Check out what is possible with Linux (you only need baghira and kxdocker... you don't need stuff like flyakite, objectbar, etc):

Clean Desktop:

Finder:

Real Dirty:

The only thing that bothers me is that shadows don't work on my machine

#352361

I had a pretty much pixel perfect tiger emulation on windows but after 2 hard drives blew in a week I lost windows including backups and never bothered re-installing. On linux I haven't bothered macifying it because I've never seen anything that comes really close til now.

@ bonafide That's the best mac 2 linux emulation I've seen. I've been following the tut but I have a few of questions for you -

1) What icon set you using?

2) How did you remove the dropmarkers from the konqueror tollbar buttons? I've been trying allsorts.

3) What font are you using on the menubar? I have the usual mac fonts but nothing looks quite right.

4) What's your arrangment with the menubar? I tried changing font size to make the bar bigger but then the text is misplaced, if I use smaller fonts the system tray icons are cut off.

5) Finally, what dock app are you using. I've tried kxdocker and ksmoothdock but I can't find any decent backgrounds, did you make your own?

Thanks.

#354429

@Bonafied: That is the best OSX look on Linux eva

#354473

hehe, glad you guys like it

1) icon-set is a modified (i changed the folder icons) OS-L (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=16564)

2) what baghira do you use? you gotta compile it from the sources if you like to change that. Open baghira/Style/baghira.cpp, go to line ~1330 and change

 case PE_ArrowDown:

		 {

			p->drawPixmap(x,y,*sbDown);

			break;

		 }

to:

 case PE_ArrowDown:

		 {

			//p->drawPixmap(x,y,*sbDown);

			break;

		 }

3) it's the usual lucida grande fonts... again modified, either get a font-manipulating program and increase the room above and below the characters (you just need to experiment with numbers) or give me your email-adress.

4) will be solved by step 3

5) it's kxdocker with a selfmade background, i'll atach it...

i hope i could help you...

MacOSX.zip

Attachment: MacOSX.zip

#355480

Great, thanks for that. A lot of help indeed!

I'm using baghira cvs as per the tutorial. I'm having trouble with it on suse so I'm about to compile it on ubuntu so your reply came at a good time.

I've sent you a pm with my email address if you could sort me out with the fonts when you have time.

Thanks again.

#355553

Thanks to some help from bonafide I've managed this so far.