Hi :) I only tried the 11.10 in a VM as a LiveCd. I liked Unity for kiosks or for our public access machines or even most of the office workers but i agree about Gnome being much easier for even slightly skilled users. Regards from Tom :)
--- On Mon, 24/10/11, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Installing the "XP-Silver" theme in > Ubuntu > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, 24 October, 2011, 21:27 > Tom, > If you have Ubuntu 11.10, have a look in the Appearance > dialog for the > Adwaita theme, which has blue highlighting in menus but > otherwise looks almost identical to our XP-Silver theme. It > also looks > very similar to one of the standard Mac themes. > > I'll post a sample on the wiki when I get a chance (may not > be that soon). > > --Jean > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 00:46, Tom Davies <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi :) > > I really like the Radiance theme in oranges and reds. > It seems to be available on a lot of different distros but > not at all in Windows without considerable work. Silver is > good and seems more familiar cross-platform-wise. > > Regards from > > Tom :) > > > > --- On Sun, 23/10/11, Jean Weber <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> > >> Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Installing > the "XP-Silver" theme in Ubuntu > >> To: [email protected] > >> Date: Sunday, 23 October, 2011, 11:04 > >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 01:29, Martin > >> Fox <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > Michele Zarri put the following zip file > together a > >> few years ago: > >> > > >> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3605254/ubuntu-xp-silver-theme.zip > >> > > >> > The instructions he wrote are: > >> > > >> > Win XP Silver-like theme for Ubuntu > >> > > >> > Installing the theme is fairly > straightfoward. > >> > > >> > 1) Go to System > Preferences > > Appearance and > >> stay in the Themes page. > >> > 2) Save your current theme in order to be > able to > >> revert to it. > >> > 3) Drag and drop the file GTK2-WinXp etc.. > and select > >> the option to > >> > use it immediately. This is not a full theme, > but only > >> the "controls" > >> > part. (If you press the Customize button you > will > >> notice that a theme > >> > is formed by Controls, Colours, Window > Borders, > >> Icons and Pointers). > >> > If you go to controls, the last entry should > read > >> WinXP-Silver. > >> > 4) Drag and drop the XP-SilverWindow etc.. > file in the > >> Appearance > >> > dialog and again select use immediately. This > is the > >> windows borders > >> > part of the theme. It is 99% based on a theme > I found > >> on > >> > art.gnome.org, but I needed to modify the > shade > >> applied to the title > >> > (just removing a couple of lines from the XML > file). > >> > 5) to finish the transformation, you can > select > >> Verdana as the font > >> > for the Window Titles. > >> > 6) save the new theme. > >> > > >> > Both the components of the theme were found > at > >> art.gnome.org where you > >> > experiment with many other combinations > (probably you > >> will even find > >> > something better... as I said I did not spend > more > >> than an hour on this. > >> > > >> > >> 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. > >> > >> Meanwhile, however, I've discovered that the > Radiance theme > >> in Ubuntu > >> 11.10 looks very much like the "XP-Silver" theme > except > >> that > >> highlighting is orange (menu items, checkboxes, > default > >> pushbuttons, > >> etc) and the drop-down list boxes are as Hazel > described. > >> My (possibly > >> faulty) memory of the earlier version of the > Radiance theme > >> is that it > >> didn't have enough contrast, but on one of my > laptops at > >> least, the > >> contrast now looks fine. However, it looks a bit > less like > >> Windows or > >> Mac. > >> > >> --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 > >> > >> > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > > > -- > 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 > > -- 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
