Panel Bars for Ubuntu for download

[Najmudin]

Hi there

I love Ubunut , so i decide to make some panel bars for Ubuntu user's as a gift , i hope you like it .:)
Some of the bars:
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/8786/exampleig7.png

The file is upload it on this link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b3b7262a8a8fcea5e7c82ed4b8f0c380e04e75f6 e8ebb871

Have a nice bars !! ;)

[steveneddy]

How about some screen shots first, champ.

[Najmudin]

How about some screen shots first, champ.

Here it is man , a screen shot , thanks for your notice .:popcorn:

[King_Critter]

Ooh, nice. I especially like the chrome one, which is what I'm now using. ^_^

[steveneddy]

How about something in green?

[foresth]

Have a nice bars !!

Thanks! They really are nice ;).

[Najmudin]

How about something in green?

I'll try to make something green for you in my next panels group, but which size you guys prefer 24 , 26 , or larger than that ??!!!

[Najmudin]

Thanks! They really are nice ;).

Thanks for your encouragement .

[leibowitz]

Using chrome1 here too

[ikonia]

take a look at the mockup in this thread.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=437694

if you did the bars for it it could be the first step to making this desktop theme into a reality

[Najmudin]

take a look at the mockup in this thread.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=437694

if you did the bars for it it could be the first step to making this desktop theme into a reality

Great idea, I'm ready for it , but i have some questions :
1- What size and color the bars should be ?
2- In what graphic file type they should be or save them?
3- Whom i have to contact or send the bars to ?
4- How much $$$$$$ I'm getting from this job ?? ..... just kidding :)

[AlexThomson_NZ]

Hiya, love the panels! (I am using white grey myself) Have been looking for some decent panels for ages...

To get the word out about your great panels, you should submit them to gnome-look.org which is pretty much the official repository for things like this, themes, icons, etc.

[ryanVickers]

Wow, those are really good! I think most people will want a 24 pixel high, or maybe 48/50 pixel one! (48 makes sense, but for some reason, gnome panels won't "stack" the window dock things unless it's 50!)

I've made a few of my own, but they are pretty simple

[mcduck]

You can enable image scaling for panel backgrounds with gconf-editor, so the size is really not that important (unless you use panel sizes way bigger than what the image is). You need to change these settings anyway if you want background images in vertical panels.

For file format, I recommend either PNG or SVG. They are best ones for graphics, and also support transparency.

[Swarms]

Yes I am trying to copy that look too, so if you made similar bar would be fantastic! :)

[dimitrispao]

http://s3.bitefight.gr/c.php?uid=16402

[ryanVickers]

You need to change these settings anyway if you want background images in vertical panels.
not really, you can just recreate the image in a way so it's designed for vertical ones

[mcduck]

not really, you can just recreate the image in a way so it's designed for vertical ones

Yes, of course that's another way. But it's quite a impossible to make both vertical & horizontal images for every resolution and panels size people are using, which is what you need to do if you want things like rounded corners etc. and you don't enable scaling & rotating of pane background images..

Enabling the scaling and rotation means that you only need one image, perhaps 2 if you want higher resolution for wide panels and smaller one for thin panels. (I just hope that SVG images would actually scale in panels as vectors, then you'd only ever need 1 image..)

[Najmudin]

Here is some new panels, i saved them on PNG format and two sizes :
1280x24
1280x50


Click the link to download :
png group.7z - 0.25MB (http://www.zshare.net/download/228733745dc4de/)

Have fun ;)

[leibowitz]

You can enable image scaling for panel backgrounds with gconf-editor, so the size is really not that important

Thanks for the tip ! After two years of Gnome I didn't notice this before, and was not using panel background because of this.

So cool :-)

[ryanVickers]

Wow, are you using gimp to make them? I've tried a few more myself now based on your style of lighting, patterns and stuff and they look great I think!

[Najmudin]

Wow, are you using gimp to make them? I've tried a few more myself now based on your style of lighting, patterns and stuff and they look great I think!

No, I'm using Corel Paint shop pro X , actually I'm using it since 7 years , i don't like the photo shop or gimp interface style, I don't feel comfortable using them , thats my problem, but there is no doubt that you can get great results using the gimp or photo shop, for me its real sad that there is no Paint shop pro in Ubuntu:(
I have to return back to windows to do the job then use it in Ubuntu.

Where are your panels , i cant see them here!!! you can upload them instead of attaching them on the forum.
I saw the first examples you make and i think they are good for first try , keep going ;)
You can take some ideas from Emerald themes or any other window borders.
Waiting for you panels:p

[ryanVickers]

My personal favorite (of my ones) so far would be these. They look alot better if you also have something like beryl or compiz to put a shadow underneath them! But I think that goes for any bar without saying... :)

Almost forgot - you could run a virtual machine if all your doing is making pictures - something so simple should be worth a reboot! :p

[Najmudin]

My personal favorite (of my ones) so far would be these. They look alot better if you also have something like beryl or compiz to put a shadow underneath them! But I think that goes for any bar without saying... :)

Almost forgot - you could run a virtual machine if all your doing is making pictures - something so simple should be worth a reboot! :p

They are really nice man , i think you have the talent , you can do better than that , maybe one day you will make a full theme or window borders.
You can also use the Eye Candy filters to do these things .
keep on the nice work;)

I will try to run a virtual machine but for now i have a problem with my computer , i was intending to do a reinstall for Ubuntu because of some sound problems , but a CD crashed in my DVD Rom and destroyed it :(:(
I have to replace it with a new one so i can install Ubuntu again .

[ryanVickers]

Thanks! I bet all of the microsoft "programers" have to go through this training - I mean, what else do you think they actually put into vista!? :p

Well, I'm happy now because I just tried beryl again, and well:
last time it didn't work properly and was slower than compiz significantly
now, it's more features, faster (not than it was, but ~2000 points* over compiz) and it woks flawlessly! :):):):):):)

*points = fps the glxgears will run at :p

[_sAm_]

Thanks for the tip ! After two years of Gnome I didn't notice this before, and was not using panel background because of this.

So cool :-)

Hmm, could you tell me where I can find this in the editor?

[leibowitz]

/apps/panel/toplevels

Find the key representing your panel (mine is panel_0, yours may be bottom_panel)

Then go to the background directory

Enable "Fit" and/or "Stretch". You can also check "Rotate" if you intend to put it on the left/right of the screen.

[ryanVickers]

You have to do it seperately for each panel you want it on. Remeober to not run it as root, because although that may seem necessary, it's not and you will be editing root settings! Not helpful for your panels! :p

[jpyanowski]

Now I have cool panel bars. Thanks

[ryanVickers]

With all the great support this community provides, I'm surprised there isn't an entire committee devoted to just making nice panel bars! :p

[mcduck]

With all the great support this community provides, I'm surprised there isn't an entire committee devoted to just making nice panel bars! :p
most people are just wasting their time finding the perfect OSX-style dock instead of playing with the wonderful panel Gnome already has..

[_sAm_]

Thank you so much for your help, now mine to looks good :D

[ryanVickers]

True. You know, you can actually make a pretty decent one just using the default gnome panel without any addons. My theme is so random! I've got beryl, so I have vista style windows decorations, mostly mac OS X icons, but some custom ones and some human, and although most of my system, even the backgtound looks like leopard, it's still very "ubuntuish"!

[rax_m]

Thanks for the panels ... they're ggrrrrreeeat :)

[tnreynolds]

Thank you very much for the panel bars, they look great. :D:D

[Najmudin]

Thanks guys for your encouragement , I'm really Glad that you liked my panels.
Have fun , and feel free to contact me if you need any panel with other colors or design .;)

[jordey24]

Ill try to make one aswell...
Edit: well,here it is: a Mac-style panel (curved and non-curved):http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff315/Jordey24/panel-preview.png?t=1224532352
Edit 2:seems the panel from the mockup is already created: look at the attachemnt for that (bar.png)

[M_Kashiff]

I guess ur link is expired

"The file you were looking for could not be found, sorry for any inconvenience."

plz post a fresh link coz i saw the screenshot and I loved it !!!

thks

[nwarrenfl]

Yes, i want them too! Please...

[Najmudin]

I updated the download link,I'm sorry i forgot where i put the files i just found them and uploaded them again.:)
Anyway you can find better and nicer panel bars created by other people, if I remember you can find some in gnome-look.org, or you can create your own if you have the ability to use gimp, its not difficult.
Best regards

[hessiess]

Nice, any chance of a dark themed one;)

[Najmudin]

I made these (http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b3b7262a8a8fcea5e7c82ed4b8f0c380e04e75f6 e8ebb871) last year most of them are dark , i hope you like it O:)

[Wiebelhaus]

Good job dude.