On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 20:25, David Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jean, > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: >> Alas, the installation and activation instructions appear to not be >> applicable to Ubuntu 11.10, which doesn't have the range of choices in >> System > Preferences > Appearance that earlier versions did. I don't >> know yet whether the function is hidden somewhere else, or if one >> needs to install the Gnome Tweak Tool, or what one can do. I only >> discovered this today and haven't seriously started researching the >> matter. > > http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/things-to-tweak-after-installing-ubuntu.html > > http://www.techdrivein.com/2011/09/top-10-gnome-shell-themes.html > > The above two links are fun to explore. The first one explains, among > other things, how to install at "Advanced Settings" for themes. But > I'm fairly sure that it will not work with the XP Silver theme, which > is for Gnome 2. > > Ubuntu now has Gnome 3 available. Personally, I found that Gnome 3 was > more fun than Unity. > > BTW, XP Silver is also available on the LibreOffice Alfresco platform > at English > Documentation > Resources > > HTH. >
Thanks, David. I'll look into that "Advanced Settings" thing. When I have time. <demented laughter /> I've now discovered another choice of theme in the Appearance dialog for Ubuntu 11.10: Adwaita, which has blue highlighting in menus but otherwise looks almost identical to our XP-Silver theme. Did I just miss it before, or has it magically shown up since I last looked? --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
