and I just realized that Sundays feel even more Sunday-ish a grey, rainy November day like today just because of the brown human theme. I downloaded the “community-themes” after reading the Fosswire roundup on Ubuntu 8.10 where Jacob mentioned that he liked the Dust theme. I didn’t, actually I didn’t like any of the three included themes, so I went for one of the included once instead, “New wave”…

Not exactly as nice and shiny as I wanted it, but at least I felt like I had a computer with a new style.

Mijn onderzoek en uitwerking van de look & feel is er, hij staat hier in pdf

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Bored with the black and white terminal?? Here is something for you

It is really simple in fact. Open your terminal, goto edit–>current profile

Select the colours tab.

Change the following :

Text color : #0EFF00

Background Color : #000000  (u can have anything u want. this is something i liked)

Goto Effects tab, and you know what to do for transparency

First and foremost : choose an operating system. I chose ubuntu. So u will have to do that too coz u r reading my guide. Ubuntu is flexible than many other i have seen. So here goes.

To get the cool look on your ubuntu, some packages are to be installed.

For this goto System –> Administration –>Synaptic Package Manager.

Click on the search button and search for the each of the following packages.

awn-core-applets-bzr
awn-manager-bzr
compizconfig-settings-manager
emerald
fusion-icon

Click on the package and select mark for installation. Click apply to complete installation.

Now we have everything we need for style. All you need now is creativity.

Let us start…

Goto Applications –> System Tools –> Compiz Fusion Icon

Right click on the fusion icon and select window manager as compiz. Select window decorator as emerald. You can quit the application now if you want to.

Now we can go for the desktop cube. For that we need 4 desktops. Right click on the desktop switcher applet on your panel(the bottom one most probably) and set the no of desktops to be4.

Now goto System –> Preferences –> Advanced Desktop Effects (Compizconfig Settings Manager or something similiar)

Check the desktop cube option. If a popup occurs click ‘disable Desktop wall’. Also check the rotate cube, Expo and 3D windows option. Now do  Ctrl+Alt+Click and drag. Now click on the desktop cube option and the transparent cube tab. Change the ‘opacity during rotation’ to near 60. Check out the other options too. Try the key bindings to know the keyboard shortcuts.

Water Effect, Paint fire on screen, Wobbly Windows etc are pleasing effects.
Under Window management, try using the Application switcher, Shift Switcher and ring switcher.

Now to give special effects to windows. Select animations under effects. The first tab ‘close animation’ describes how the window closes. Select the first option and click edit. Change the close animation and click close. Now try opening a window and closing it. Check out other animations too.

Now for the dock. Right click on your bottom panel and delete it. Now select Applications –> Accessories –> Avant Window Navigator. Customize the dock by right click –> preferences.

To change your titlebar theme System –> Preferences –> Emerald theme manager.

You can resize the desktop icons as you wish. Try right clicking on the icons.

You can find really cool themes at http://gnome-look.org/

Here are some of my desktop screenshots

Les contraintes formelles (suite)

Saviez-vous que vous pouvez améliorer de beaucoup l’appréciation subjective de votre contenu Web par les lecteurs en n’agissant que sur l’aspect formel de ce contenu. Il va de soi que le fond revêt toute son importance : mon but n’est pas de privilégier la forme au détriment du fond. Mais, dans de nombreux cas, un simple “lifting”, une retouche esthétique de vos contenus, conforme au mode de lecture à l’écran, leur procure une nette valeur ajoutée.

1. Préférez un contenu de newsletter en html, pas en image.
2. Les liens non visités auront une couleur différente des liens visités.
3. Pour épouser le comportement de balayage de l’utilisateur, les images seront placées à droite.
4. Le header permettra de reconnaître directement l’expéditeur de la newsletter.
5. Le footer sera bien distingué du tronc de la newsletter.
6. De manière générale, le look & feel ne fera pas trop racoleur…

Liens rapides

• La photo sur Flickr
• Modèles de newsletters
• check-list Newsletter 1 (les contraintes fonctionnelles)
• check-list Newsletter 2 (les contraintes fonctionnelles – suite)
• check-list Newsletter 3 (les contraintes formelles)

I rearranged the panels to have only one panel at the bottom and added buttons for firefox, terminal, tomboy and deskbar. I guess that comes from the many years of using windows. Also, I like to have menus and buttons in one place, and since this is quite a wide screen, it doesn’t make sense wasting horizontal space. I found having only a top panel weird looking. It results in two bars across the whole top of the screen when a window is maximised – does not look good to me.

After moving everything to the bottom, I noticed that the menus seem to be arranged with a top panel in mind. Need to investigate reordering menus later, maybe look at SUSE’s menu.

Oh, I also tried to play an MP3 file. As expected it did not work. Will deal with restricted formats later.

Hemos vuelto a cambiar el aspecto del blog.
Seguimos sin disponer de servidor propio, por lo que esta, no será la última modificación.

Sobre la imagen de la cabecera me gustaría dar las gracias al autor, pero no recuerdo quien era, sólo recuerdo que lo baje de deviantart.com, así que, por si acaso, gracias a todos los de deviantart.com.