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DependencyHell
July 10th, 2011, 09:23 PM
Hi all!

It took me to years to gain enough of confidence (linux confidence, that is) to join this forum :) By now i was only an exhaustive lurker.

And now for the occasion: yesterday I've spent whole day (by that i mean literally) changing my icons. I had especially hard time with emacs icon, where changes within the /usr/share/icons wouldn't do. It was even harder to change the close,maximize and unmaximize on apps...it took me while to realise that i have to change something called "metacity" via my gconf editor...but probably i was doing everything in a stupid way: copying the *png into my icon folder (with index.theme), trying to guess the proper names for *png files, for example "document-save.png", "go-next.png",etc...I simply looked at the other names in /usr/share/icons and took them as a reference...well, not always successfully...:P

Anyway, since i am a girl, my goal was a cutest desktop i can make...and here it is!

Isaacgallegos
July 10th, 2011, 09:55 PM
Oh... my ... :P

hahah! Very nice. It's not every day I see Ubuntu do "cute".

here's mine:
http://isaacg.net/posts/Screenshot23f3f3f.png
my popup tool bar:
http://isaacg.net/posts/Screenshotasdfdf.png

DependencyHell
July 11th, 2011, 10:20 AM
Thnx Isaacgallegos...i like your home icon :)!

Grenage
July 11th, 2011, 10:28 AM
Hi all!

It took me to years to gain enough of confidence (linux confidence, that is) to join this forum :) By now i was only an exhaustive lurker.

And now for the occasion: yesterday I've spent whole day (by that i mean literally) changing my icons. I had especially hard time with emacs icon, where changes within the /usr/share/icons wouldn't do. It was even harder to change the close,maximize and unmaximize on apps...it took me while to realise that i have to change something called "metacity" via my gconf editor...but probably i was doing everything in a stupid way: copying the *png into my icon folder (with index.theme), trying to guess the proper names for *png files, for example "document-save.png", "go-next.png",etc...I simply looked at the other names in /usr/share/icons and took them as a reference...well, not always successfully...:P

Anyway, since i am a girl, my goal was a cutest desktop i can make...and here it is!

I have a feeling you'd get on well with Legendary_Bibo. ;)

Dry Lips
July 11th, 2011, 01:52 PM
Wow! That's a girly desktop for sure!

It took me to years to gain enough of confidence (linux confidence, that is) to join this forum
Welcome! I'm glad you joined. On the other hand,
this forum is for noobs you know ;) By now you
definitively seem to know your way around Linux!

Isaacgallegos
July 11th, 2011, 03:08 PM
Thnx Isaacgallegos...i like your home icon :)!

Oh thanks. Here it is if you want to use it and/or edit it:

http://isaacg.net/posts/homefolder2.svg

Apelsin
July 12th, 2011, 12:18 AM
Well done :p

johnnybgoode83
July 12th, 2011, 01:21 PM
Wow I have never seen such a girly Ubuntu box but I like it, it's something different

Rodney9
July 13th, 2011, 01:19 AM
Cool and pretty, well done.

DependencyHell
July 13th, 2011, 07:48 AM
I'm glad you people like it:)
Next month I will probably take one day off again, to make the different one...

redbikemaster
July 13th, 2011, 03:52 PM
It definitely shows skill. Great job!

M1ttenz11
July 13th, 2011, 05:07 PM
Mhmm.. well done, very cute!
You's have gave me inspiration to take on the challenge of 'suiteing up' my desktop.
If I manage to make it as far as you's did, i'll be sure to post up.

Good job overall you should be proud!

debd
July 14th, 2011, 07:44 PM
Wow! thats really cute DependencyHell!!