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BoyOfDestiny
October 11th, 2005, 02:49 AM
OK I guess this is a bit silly... but there are many osx-ish and a few windows-ish gtk themes...

I'm wondering if anyone has made a sort of ascii/ansi/ncurses theme.

I think it would be kind of neat for those days where you want you desktop black with amber or green (just to look 31337).

SilentCacophony
October 11th, 2005, 03:12 AM
Bah, just do the real thing. Do a 'server' install run aptitude for package manager, get gpm for mouse support, and screen for multiplexing the console, use mc for filemanager/reader/editor, use emacs or vim for serious editing. You have centericq for messaging, mutt for mail, links for www, and there's even a music play that I can't remember... ;)

More on-topic, but not quite, there is twin - http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin/

Wolki
October 11th, 2005, 04:23 AM
I'm wondering if anyone has made a sort of ascii/ansi/ncurses theme.

I don't know, but I want one :)

BoyOfDestiny
October 11th, 2005, 06:12 AM
Bah, just do the real thing. Do a 'server' install run aptitude for package manager, get gpm for mouse support, and screen for multiplexing the console, use mc for filemanager/reader/editor, use emacs or vim for serious editing. You have centericq for messaging, mutt for mail, links for www, and there's even a music play that I can't remember... ;)

More on-topic, but not quite, there is twin - http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin/

LOL. As for the console stuff I can use: apt-get, nano, links, wget, dosbox, and various players (i.e uade), the other stuff is too advanced ;)

Anyway twin looks pretty neat, but the neat thing with a GTK theme (besides people asking why :) ) is that you could produce a "hi-res" ansi theme and use your favorite GTK apps.

If it's not too hard I might make a simple/incomplete theme (gpl' it of course) and stick it on gnome-look.

Anyway great reply.

P.S I'm not sure why but I don't like aptitude, I think I lack aptitude for it :rolleyes:

BoyOfDestiny
October 11th, 2005, 06:15 AM
I don't know, but I want one :)

Any good pics (I know pics of text is a bit odd) that could serve as inspiration.

As for colorful stuff there is ZZT.

http://www.textmodegames.com/download/zzt.html

A fun game, been freeware for years (sourcecode was lost by the author...) and runs great in DOSBox...