Hi guy's,

I have been testing zenwalk on vmware and I am very impressed. I was testing to 
see how they implemented xfce and the graphical looks of it.

First thing I noticed, was the completion of nice together fitting icon's on 
all menu items apps, and panel items and more stuff. It just looks right then.
We can for example exchange this graphical work and build better linux 
distro's. I think we should really make work of the fitting of the right icons 
by the apps, also when scaling the icons bigger and smaller they should always 
look nice.

Also I spoke with some zenwalk users through IRC. And indeed say that they that 
xubuntu is a bad gnome clone. When I ask further they come by these thoughts 
because of the top and bottom bar of the desktop. When ask further and 
defending xubuntu they frustrated pointed to the xubuntu website 
http://www.xubuntu.org/screenshots. And indeed there is not much change between 
the screenshots. Time for some changes there guys. We can change this "bad" 
image very easily. We use xfce and so do they it is easily to changes the looks 
to something similar to zenwalk and dreamlinux so lets do this. Jmak I believe 
you were head of the xubuntu art work? Can you do this? and change edgy in a 
few different configuration's with different looks. Also make a tutorial around 
it so user can easily do it them self. We can put this on the website.

Also we could make a tool/script system for xfce to be able to load different 
graphical configurations all in one time. To be more detailed: xfce is using 
his own settings to make xfce appear like it is now. Zenwalk and Dreamlinux and 
other xfce distro's also have to manually set all these settings. Let's make a 
tool or extend the "User interface preferences" with a configuration file and a 
open standard for it. That let us load different graphical configurations for 
the total xfce desktop system. Jani, I believe you have the best contacts with 
xfce developers like Benedikt. Can you do some work on this front?

Good idea's? To much text here? Am I to pussy? :-D

Best regards,

Jelle


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