Hi Paul (All), I haven't been on the list lately, dealing with some family issues. Anyway, as the creator of Liquid Lemur, I was curious what it was you didn't like about the visuals...in particular. I do try to listen to people's suggestions. :)
Due to the family issues, I had to hand over Lemur to the other devs for now. They are keeping it going, but are saving the Window Maker version for me. :) I should be back at it in a couple of weeks, So, any suggestions on how to make it better would be great. Thanks! Ed P.S. Apologies if this is top posted...replying from the library. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Paul Seelig <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > To tell the truth, personally i consider the default configuration to be > highly attractive, and it even almost matches my personal desktop. I > prefer my work environment to be simple, clean, straightforward and > almost empty. Actually i dislike too much eye candy, and my focus is > defintely more on the functional side of things. > > Check out http://liquidlemur.com/lforum/showthread.php?tid=78 for > pointers like these here: > > http://www.jessanderson.org/wmthemes > http://www.mumblelina.com/index.php?themes=1 > http://www.cs.mun.ca/~gstarkes/wmaker/themes > http://www.gozer.org/window_maker/themes/ > > There are lots of possibilities to improve the eye candy aspect, just > like the Liquid Lemur WMaker Live CD has proven. I downloaded the > current RC1 of the Liquid Lemur WMaker edition today from > www.liquidlemur.com/cms/downloads and while it is defintely very well > done technical wise, i didn't really like this visual "right in your > face" overstatement. > > Actually i wanted to avoid this at all cost, because for me such > superficial enhancements are just wasting time without any functional > benefit. Form follows function. ;) > > Yes, the nice GTK2-Step theme doesn't work anymore with GTK3 based > applications, and unfortunately i haven't found any suitable GTK3-Step > equivalent yet. I prefer this theme due to its clear and simple look. > > Thanks > Paul > > On 01/30/2012 11:27 PM, Martin Dietze wrote: > > On Mon, January 30, 2012, Paul Seelig wrote: > > > >> with the newly released wmaker-0.95.1 with it's now fully functional > >> debianization, i have updated my WMLive web page with a new build of a > >> live WindowMaker system based on Ubuntu 11.04. On > > > > Very good initiative! > > It seems like you've configured Firefox/Thunderbird to use the > > GtkStep2 theme? Just out of interest, I noticed that this theme > > does no longer work with the more recent GTK-based applications > > (gtk3 if I'm not too mistaken) - has anyone cared to create a > > STEP-like theme for the current gtk version? > > > > One last thing - I think you can make the default configuration > > a bit more attractive if you preconfigure a nice background > > image, also (I haven't seen the CD yet) if it's bundled with > > some nice themes to choose from. Just an idea - why not ask > > people to send in their personal configurations - themes and > > dock (WMState) and add the best ones to the distro, so that > > users can choose from them? > > > > Cheers, > > > > M'bert > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected] > . >
