October 2008 Screenshot Thread

[Opeth115]

Compiz is more then possible in xfce, i'm using it right now =)

edit: forgot to hit quote button.... towards Sponzenbroekske

[etnlIcarus]

Yeah compiz and xfce4 are fine together. The only shortcoming is, at the moment, there's no, "window decorator", mode for xfwm4, meaning you need to install emerald as well.

Edit: Should also point out that Xfwm4 supports xcompmgr for much simpler, non-accelerated compositing support. I've got compiz and xcompmgr and I just use xcompmgr.

[chucky chuckaluck]

I'm blaming you for my current -box interest, by the way. Excellent desktop.

thanks. i'd be delighted to take the blame. i try lots of other things, but i always end up back with openbox.

[perfectska04@hotmail.com]

Now, I wonder... If I remove the gnome-icon-theme from the inherits line of Eikon's index.theme file, and reduce it to "Tango,hicolor", will we still have that problem, even if we don't delete the inode-directory icons?

I think that as long as inode-directory icons are installed, there will be many regressions with any icon set (since everything will eventually inherit from gnome). I already submitted a bug to Ubuntu and commented on the bugzilla version, but no one has done anything about it. Anyway, here's a slightly more complete workaround than the one Ub1476 posted:

#This part removes the problem (useless) icons.
sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/inode-directory.svg
sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/places/inode-directory.png
sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places/inode-directory.png
sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/places/inode-directory.png
sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/places/inode-directory.png

#Log out. If for some reason the icons appear as blank after logging out, rebuild gnome-icon-theme's icon cache:
sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache
sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -qf /usr/share/icons/gnome

[PurposeOfReason]

Going through a whole new diretion than I usually do. Just need this emerad and gtk to base mine off of but he doesn't seem to respond.

http://skitzware.deviantart.com/art/umm-100521242

[Sponzenbroekske]

Compiz is more then possible in xfce, i'm using it right now =)

edit: forgot to hit quote button.... towards Sponzenbroekske

Ah that changes everything
I use emerald now too so that aint a problem

So xfce is definitly an my 'to try list'

Is it possible on a BSD-variant?

[lswest]

A friend of mine is using Intrepid Beta and is experiencing this same issue with Eikon2. The folder icons at the Places menu revert to a very ugly default. Does anybody know if GNOME 2.24 messed around with the names of the icons again? If so, what in the world are the folders icons supposed to be called now?

I made symbolic links to the folder.png/folder.svg files in the theme called gtk-directory.svg and inode-directory.svg (new names for those). That solved it for me.

Commands:

ln -s ~/.icons/[themename]/scalable/folders.svg ~/.icons/[themename]/scalable/gtk-directory.svg
ln -s ~/.icons/[themename]/scalable/folders.svg ~/.icons/[themename]/scalable/inode-directory.svg

[What is in a name?]

I made symbolic links to the folder.png/folder.svg files in the theme called gtk-directory.svg and inode-directory.svg (new names for those). That solved it for me.

Commands:

ln -s ~/.icons/[themename]/scalable/folders.svg ~/.icons/[themename]/scalable/gtk-directory.svg
ln -s ~/.icons/[themename]/scalable/folders.svg ~/.icons/[themename]/scalable/inode-directory.svg

Yes, I thought of doing that too. Still, Perfectska04 mentioned on that specific thread about that subject that the inode-directory icon has the tendency of overriding any other folder icon, in situations where folder-open or directory-visiting-whatever would be used instead. Do you have the same issue now with those links?

I'm still on Hardy, and won't upgrade to Intrepid until it reaches the RC stage, at least, so I can't test any of this myself, but I'm worried about this.

[What is in a name?]

Compiz is more then possible in xfce, i'm using it right now =)

edit: forgot to hit quote button.... towards Sponzenbroekske

...And on my specific case, Compiz is a lot more possible in Xfce than in GNOME, in fact. Still, I stick with Xfwm4 with some mild compositor effects. Good enough for me.

Like this:


Still I'm not totally satisfied with the tasklist. And considering I didn't even add Conky back to the desktop, I reckon I'm about to faint with claustrophobia.
Sort of.

[perfectska04@hotmail.com]

Yes, I thought of doing that too. Still, Perfectska04 mentioned on that specific thread about that subject that the inode-directory icon has the tendency of overriding any other folder icon, in situations where folder-open or directory-visiting-whatever would be used instead. Do you have the same issue now with those links?

I'm still on Hardy, and won't upgrade to Intrepid until it reaches the RC stage, at least, so I can't test any of this myself, but I'm worried about this.

Yes, if you just add inode-directory to your themes it will fix the folders in the places menu, but it will break many, many things. Besides that does not solve the issue since we can't force every icon theme on the internet to add that ugly workaround just to conform to this bug.

I recommend anyone who can to visit the bug pages and let them know this is important to you and should be fixed:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539286
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...me/+bug/278033

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