The last time that I checked, the Gnome themes had still not migrated and, if you install one of them, then they will appear on the right.
On 7/5/10, Chris Knadle <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 04 July 2010 16:44:52 Matthias Johnson wrote: >> While Ubuntu is great I feel it tries to mirror OSX and is "weird" for a >> lot of people I show. > > A lot of people aren't happy about the buttons moving to the left on > windows. > > http://yokozar.org/blog/archives/194 > > > I don't agree with Ubuntu's philosophy in this area either. From reading I > gather that the general idea was to standardize the Desktop layout, > appearance, and user experience. I get that, but the problem I have is > that > moving the buttons back to the right seems to be a /hidden/ configuration > option: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1058010 > > ------------- > It is a hidden metacity option. Here's how to change it back: > > 1. open gconf-editor > 2. Go to apps->metacity->general > 3. change the value of button_layout to menu:minimize,maximize,close > ------------- > >> For windows users I feel mint is a better match, its >> based off Ubuntu but has its own look. Its simple things like one panel >> set at the bottom, a favorites applications list in the "start" menu which >> you customize by rightclicking and add to favorites, a "control panel" >> section, the compiz fusion settings manager preinstalled a great way to >> wow, adobe flash preinstalled (whether you think it good it beats having >> to walk someone unfamiliar through installing through activex and 90% of >> people "need" it) > > Note that at least temporarily Adobe has dropped support for 64-bit Linux > after a serious vulnerability in Flash was discovered, so the latest version > of 64-bit Flash for Linux that I can find is still vulnerable. The i386 > Linux > version has been updated. > > I tried using Gnash as an alternative, but it's painful. I was not able to > play YouTube videos in Firefox, but I was in Konqueror -- but only if I > copy/pasted a direct URL -- and playing another video required restarting > the > browser as well as entering in a direct URL. It's rather untenable. > > > > > Now, in terms of the original thread, I like Gwenview (which has plugins > available for extending image manipulation) but for picture viewing I tend > to > use Geeqie (was named GQview) most often. Gwenview and several other KDE4 > apps use Nepomuk and a back-end database to store metadata, but I found that > Nepomuk and Stigi indexing greatly slows down file operations. There's a > design issue with Nepomuk in that to watch file moves it has to use inotify > even for non-indexed directories because of the way inotify works; both the > source and destination directories have to be monitored to know what was > moved > where. This no-win situation is explained within KDE4 Bug#233471: > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233471 > > Turning Nepomuk off helps, but even then I find Geeqie to be much faster. > > > Krita looks promising -- the interface looks very similar to what I remember > from Paint Shop Pro v4. [At the moment I'm not able to load it to try it > out > due to a missing library that's a dependency in the package that's in the > Debian experimental branch.] > > -- Chris > > -- > > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie > Aug 4 - Samba > Sep 1 - BOINC > _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie Aug 4 - Samba Sep 1 - BOINC
