I don't pimp or trick out but I do like to customize little usability features like the panel, it's location and panel applets. It's the reason I steer clear of Unity.
I don't pimp or trick out but I do like to customize little usability features like the panel, it's location and panel applets. It's the reason I steer clear of Unity.
The most I ever do lately is tweak themes by hand. You can make some pretty slick desktops that way with very little "tricking out" involved.
Even when I used Windows, I would trick the desktop out to the point where friends wouldn't know what OS I was using at times. :3
With Ubuntu, I do very little tweaking. I change icons... the theme, and wallpaper. But, nothing much beyond that. Not familiar enough to start messing with system files.
Besides, I like my set up as it is.
At bra|10n, Thanks for the information I will look into it.
Like the OP, I used to be a tweaker but no more.
I would tweak every corner of the OS. Custom splash screens, custom fonts, I would manually edit theme config files to get them exactly how I wanted. I made custom themes for firefox and thunderbird too.
I even used to re-arrange app menus (in old KDE 3 and gnome 2) into categories of my own choosing.
It would often take well over a week or more after a fresh install to get things exactly how I wanted and i dreaded new install time.
But times change and now I want an OS up and running as quickly as possible and do as little as possible to get it setup.
Although I think KDE is the best DE, I moved away from it for this reason. The default setup didn't suit me and once I started tweaking I couldn't stop so moved to unity.
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