Minimalistic Firefox, Minimalistic Beryl, Minimalistic KDE

[RAV TUX]

Emerald Themer 0.1.4: ButtonLess version 0.1

KDE Theme: Gnome default

FireFox 2.0 Theme: 708090 lite

[Sense]

Looks nice! Did you make that?

[BarfBag]

Beautiful! Does it run any faster all stripped down?

[Erunno]

Is that Sabayon Linux ? It reminds me of some screenshots I've seen some time ago. Anyway, looks good :)

(edit: spelling)

[mips]

Is that Sabaylon Linux ? It reminds me of some screenshots I've seen some time ago. Anyway, looks good :)

Yes, it's Sabayon.

[RAV TUX]

Beautiful! Does it run any faster all stripped down?

Yes that is the beauty of a minimalistic KDE/Beryl.....is you get all the benefits of a pimped out desktop.....but minimalistic and professional....


...meant to inspire discourse on the benefits of a minimalistic desktop with applications that are not known as minimalistic.

[tbroderick]

...meant to inspire discourse on the benefits of a minimalistic desktop with applications that are not known as minimalistic.

I wouldn't call put a different theme on Firefox making it minimalistic. It's still as resource heavy as before.

[RAV TUX]

I wouldn't call put a different theme on Firefox making it minimalistic. It's still as resource heavy as before.
primarally speaking of minimalistic from a visual or artistic stand point NOT a resource stand point....other wise I wouldn't be using KDE and Beryl...

Lately at least from a visual perspective on my desktop and browsers I have been very minimalistic...


meaning mostly,....Zero icons, No title bar, one Toolbar on Firefox....and minimalistic themes both in Beryl and Firefox..

[RAV TUX]

Update have changed the Emerald theme to "Frame v0.1"

see the screenshots below:

[BoyOfDestiny]

Update have changed the Emerald theme to "Frame v0.1"

see the screenshots below:

Looks totally awesome.

Just kind of curious, do you miss having the minimize/maximize/close buttons...

I use beryl (sort of on and off since I play some stuff that uses opengl and will flicker, so I go back to metacity)

One thing I'd do if I went full time with beryl, is get rid of the gnome tasks list at the bottom, the showing of all windows with beryl is fantastic (the gnome list even on wide screen gets ridiculous when I have a dozen apps and some terminals open)
Also, I know beryl/emerald let's you (well other managers too of course) have things like "roll" up and the like...

Anyway my real question is: can you give any tips and hints on how you make the most of a button-less setup? Mouse gestures? Hotkeys? :)

[RAV TUX]

Looks totally awesome.

Just kind of curious, do you miss having the minimize/maximize/close buttons...

I use beryl (sort of on and off since I play some stuff that uses opengl and will flicker, so I go back to metacity)

One thing I'd do if I went full time with beryl, is get rid of the gnome tasks list at the bottom, the showing of all windows with beryl is fantastic (the gnome list even on wide screen gets ridiculous when I have a dozen apps and some terminals open)

Also, I know beryl let's you (well other managers too of course) have things like "roll" up and the like...

Anyway my real question is: can you give any tips and hints on how you make the most of a button-less setup? Mouse gestures? Hotkeys? :)

yes...the current buttonless setup is the best I have seen because the buttons are there upon mouse over....

see the screenshot below for a sample:

[BoyOfDestiny]

yes...the current buttonless setup is the best I have seen because the buttons are there upon mouse over....

I think I'll have to try it to see what you mean. Unless it's just we're so used to knowing where the buttons are... I dunno, there are times where I want to say "wow, this is a much better way of doing things than before"

With things like beryl, and all these smart guys and girls writing gui related stuff...
Less clicks or keystrokes to do the same tasks.
More screen real estate.
Looks really really cool.
More usability.

Too much clutter, that's what I consider bloat. :)

EDIT: Oh I just saw the screenshot... The only downside is it may scare new users :) More power to you if you never miss the location.
I think I might accidently hit closed instead of max if I'm working quickly.

[RAV TUX]

I think I'll have to try it to see what you mean. Unless it's just we're so used to knowing where the buttons are... I dunno, there are times where I want to say "wow, this is a much better way of doing things than before"

With things like beryl, and all these smart guys and girls writing gui related stuff...
Less clicks or keystrokes to do the same tasks.
More screen real estate.
Looks really really cool.

That's what I'm hoping for. Too much clutter, that's what I consider bloat. :)just scroll over where the buttons usually are and upon mouseover the button and label will appear.

I also like that with this theme there is NO title....simply Awesome!

[RAV TUX]

Looks nice! Did you make that?If you mean the 3D wallpaper?....no I didn't make it, found it here:

http://steverowlands.deviantart.com/gallery/

it's actually a gif:

http://images.jozefmazeltov.multiply.com/image/1/photos/38/orig/1/MagicRoom.gif?et=4wEfXihYU%2BtVPu0KIMMOMA
(http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/42432164/?qo=2&q=by%3Asteverowlands&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps)

[RAV TUX]

current minimalistic desktop

[bionnaki]

you should get rid of that ugly menu button

[DarkN00b]

just scroll over where the buttons usually are and upon mouseover the button and label will appear.

I also like that with this theme there is NO title....simply Awesome!

It is possible to make every Emerald theme have no title, icon or even buttons by editing the theme in Emerald theme manager.

[RAV TUX]

you should get rid of that ugly menu buttonI am sure there is a way to edit it,....just haven't done it yet.

[RAV TUX]

It is possible to make every Emerald theme have no title, icon or even buttons by editing the theme in Emerald theme manager.hmm I will have to look into this

[dbbolton]

in your kde settings, you can choose for it to act like mac, windows, unix, etc.
and yours must be set to windows, hence the start button.

is that the menu button you were talking about? or do you mean do change the graphic that's used on the start button ?

[RAV TUX]

in your kde settings, you can choose for it to act like mac, windows, unix, etc.
and yours must be set to windows, hence the start button.

is that the menu button you were talking about? or do you mean do change the graphic that's used on the start button ?It is set to act like SUSE not windows...but that is the button....the only visible button left;)

[RAV TUX]

you should get rid of that ugly menu button
done