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Category: Best Unix Eyecandy
What is on your desktop that soothes your tired eyes? A background image? A really pretty skinned application? A webcam of some girl that you obsessively reload every 60 seconds from the moment you sit at your desk until the moment you pass out? (If it's the last one, you might consider taking some sort of medication before she gets a restraining order against you.) If it's something else, why not try
nominating them for their own Beanie Award?
....but, it would look a thousand times better with a few Propaganda seamless tiles. Sorry guys, my vote is still for Propaganda. I mean, christ there must be like a _thousand_ propaganda images versus one or two nice themes for Enlightenment.
This guy should win on sheer quantity alone. All of it basically kicks ass, and makes everything _else_ look good in the process.
I second that one.
Totally agree. E deserves this award!
:P
And to you people suggesting CDE as a winner in this category (you gotta be kidding). IMHO CDE and motif just gotta be THE reasons UNIX aren't more popular among desktop users today. Another good candidate would be GTK-themes
Zarlox
Without question I have seen no finer Eye Candy than Enlightenment. The fact that it also works without eating _all_ the extra clock cycles is pretty nice too.
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It lives at http://stu.magd.cam.ac.uk/~jakdaw/xmms/
</SHAMELESS PLUG> - Jakdaw (too lazy to log in)
Volgens mij is het meer als geintje bedoeld hoor maar goed.
Well I like Nethack too but the white d's and f's just annoy me! They never follow you when you try to go up or down the stairs so you'll have to get back and make sure they come with you and I'm already running low on food! I try to kill them sometimes but it's of no use...
The best Unix eye candy I ever saw was that babe handing out Linux Magazine at the shows.
I think that vsa should have the award for eye candy.
VSA is a visual sound analyzer (eye candy) for GNOME with multi-layer plugin and theme support. It comes with a number of visualization, filter, and background plugins, and a panel applet and application version.
http://vsa.linuxcore.com/
I still remember Enlightenment 0.4. It was very small, very fast (and very buggy) and only required Imlib, which was very small in the old days. Nowadays Enlightenment has become too heavy, needs too many libraries and uses too many skins and all. It hasn't become five times more beautiful than the classic vampire-style E. That's why most people look for a compromise in speed and looks, which is WindowMaker most of the time. I now use XFCE with Fvwm 1.24 (after two year WindowMaker) and it's fast and looks not too crowded and still very neat.
Not only is it an awesome application, its the most common tool used to create the beautiful eye candy we all adore in the opensource world.
CDE is soo nice to look at. All the icons use grays with a few tastefully placed colours. The whole thing is very subtly, tastefully designed. I can't stand staring at these other environments/WMs because they have giant 3D icons with every colour imaginable that slow down my X server and my network. I don't like translucent windows, and I don't like my computer to look like Star Trek. The CDE is just what the doctor ordered--a clean, beautiful desktop, really nice on the eyes.
The newest version of the randomizing X screensaver. It's really great in a room full of people on acid.
Dutch (see translation below):
Ik heb net op die Propaganda-site gekeken en het is de zieligste site die ik ooit heb gezien. Ik dacht dat ons beeld van schijnheilige jachtgeweer-Amerikanen die zichzelf beter vinden dan iedereen een bevooroordeelde beeld was, maar blijkbaar is dat een feit. Ze zien zichzelf altijd als helden, terwijl ze in de media ons als verslaafden afschilderen. Als ze anderen bespioneren en op heterdaad worden betrapt, zijn ze ineens helden die moeten ontsnappen van de "vijand". Als anderen een ideetje lenen wordt er ineens gesproken over het zielig over de rug meekijken, terwijl ze zelf alles jatten. Kut-Amerikanen.
Translation:
Clinton needs a facelift.
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Lets face it, no matter what window manager or GUI you're using, themes.org is always there to suck up more of your machines valuable RAM in a convenient and simply excellent manner! I nominate Themes.ORG!
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Agreed. And it only got better with the release of 0.16.
"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
--James Madison
hands down. fire it up with a purty skin, watch the rotating GL spectrum analyzer spin (or one of the other pretty plugins).
if you think you have seen your share of cool screensavers, think again.
bomb just blows all of them out of the water.
according to its author, its a visual-musical instrument. It produces animated organic graphics in response to the keyboard, audio music, or on its own. It runs on the console, under X11, or with xscreensaver.
get it here : draves.org/bomb.
Some of his stuff gets a bit "out there" (and I wouldn't go there if you're really easily offended by suggestive stuff), but he also has some of the best Goth-ish stuff I've found. And some of his stuff has actually inspired artistically-challenged me to try designing some of his own.
Hey what about VSA !? :)
I'd like to nominate two projects from the XMMS plug-in competition.
Blursk - More configurability then you can imagine and seamless transitions between functions.
Blur Scope MAX - Trippy visuals combined with a build your own favorites philosophy.
(DISCLAIMER: I wrote the Blur Scope MAX plug-in)
Check them both out (and all the other great plug-ins) at the XMMS site.
(I was only an egg, but then I cracked)
An eycandy may of course be both beatifull and fast at the same kind. And it doesn't have to be overbloated with graphics. The only requerement is that it improves look a lot (And perheaps does not improve functionality that much, but that's not a requerement). Gdm and Kdm are such enhancements to Xdm - not much new functionality but a lot improved look.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Sorry to say, but I do love my graphical front-end to init for Linux, Aurora (Check out its homepage). So I'l have to nominate it...
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
psst...thanks!
Bowie
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You cant deny it
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These are basically plug-ins (similar to The Gimp) made for the POV-ray raytracer. His include files do some of the following things:
- Generate cities: why model an entire city when you can simply run his include file which will randomly create one for you?
- Liquid Spray: check out his screenshots/movies and drool.
- Object Exploder: nuff said
- Object Bender: easily bend an entire object. check out his movie of a pencil bouncing along the ground.
- Galaxy: create a beatiful, animated, randomly generated galaxy as the sky for your rendering. this one is stunning.
These are only a few examples of his include files. The POV-ray home page describes that Chris basically invented the "include file".
Thanks, Chris, from a newbie POV-ray user who is already doing some really cool graphics thanks to your plugins.
Regardless if multi-boot machine is booted into Linux, NT, or BeOS, I always have a wonderfully tile-able Propaganda image in the background.
Professional Quality Games for Linux produce the best eye-candy.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
I've had it for years and I still can spend hours wathing it.. Just awesome! :-)
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It has to work - rfc1925
what about gkrellm?
http://www.gkrellm.net
http://www.icalledit.com - Predicting the future, one post at a time
Using doom to kill processes, beats 'kill 23641' any day.
xeyes. Good clean fun.
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"A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman who has lost an eye." -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The Eyepoppers set of background tiles is available free for UNIX, Macintosh, and Windows. Pretty. Very pretty. There's a few hundred patterns in the three sets, or you can waste hours with the interactive webapp (click the Launch button on the main page).
The award should go to Jeremy Huxtable (I think thats his name), for the original, often immitated, never matched: Xeyes
It is relatively old (circa 1988?), but still makes your desktop so much cooler. And yes, it is definitely eye candy.
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I love nethack's screen. When i see the little white f or d following me, their dedication warms my heart. Steal for me, doggie! When i see that yellow c coming up behind me while i'm facing a VRT&& surrounding my other side, its brown trousers time! I'm pleased, disturbingly enough, when i'm inside the energy vortex while hallucinating...look at the colours, man! I dream nethack screens! Can you say that for your eye candy?
Nethack is the eye candy for me, unix or no!
Demonstrant's Open Source Tools
-- Lightstorm.
Chat is dominated by IRC. But let's face it.. It's effective but very dull on the eyes.
Introduce eye-candy and you have OpenVerse Visual Chat http://openverse.org
This is my nomination for best UNIX (or windows, or mac) eye candy OpenSource project.
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I'll fourth it.
I've been a rabid cthugha advocate since the 5.x days in DOS. chtugha-L warms my heart. Couldn't ask for a nicer author, either. Since the first time I saw Zaph's ethereal image fading to black behind a bumping waveform, with a bottle of Wild Turkey in hand, I knew I had to meet the guy (net-wise, at least). I've chatted with zaph a few times, and he's been unfailingly very cool. (smooooooch, smoooooch, how about that cthugha98 source, Zaph? :) ) It's always nice when authors of software I like respond to my moronic queries. :)
Cthugha. Better than TV. On par with sex.
Will Illingworth
OpenBSD X-Lock definitly brings me back to my days as a stoner
Ok... better than TV, I can buy that, but better than sex... Cthugha's a great addition to sex, but I'd hardly say it was better... (or maybe I'm just lucky :-) Cthugha98 sourcecode... well, I had originally thought of trying to do a registered version, to make a couple of dollars from my efforts, but I can never convince myself that there's something there worth paying for. I've kept that sourcecode under wraps to prevent unscrupulous people taking advantage of it (as they have done). I will release the code, after I update it and make it worthy of a new release - hopefully sooner rather than later... Zaph (still with the Wild Turkey) Author of Cthugha http://www.torps.com
-- Game Development Blog
Some friends of mine used Cthuga rather creatively at a party of ours recently... they basically hooked up a pair of large screen tv's to a video out, mp3ed some cds, and voila! - instant entertainment! Cheap, and way cool! ;D
:)
PS Interesting side note: one of the tv's was placed on a large speaker due to lack of space. This had the effect of warping all the colour on the lower half of the picture without distorting the waveform. People couldn't figure out how we had two different coloured but otherwise identical pictures!
Sure, we've all heard about it and heard people drool about it, but it still takes the cake for best eye candy. Of course, that's why people with 32 meg of RAM and a P-100 hate it, but the award isn't for speed. :)
Allow me to nominate xteddy, the only desktop application you'll really need:
http://www.physik.uni-hall e.de/~e2od5/debian/xteddy.html
This version of xteddy allows you to use different teddy images, among them a rubber duck, a stuffed penguin, various other stuffed animals.
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Nominee #1 : Xscreensaver. (obvious)
Nominee #1a: Sproingies screensaver. YUMMY!
Using the -root option.
Wow, there's dolphins swimming behind my icons. Can't get much cooler than that.
Lay a Voodoo 3 chip on this game, and it's a sight so beautiful as to bring a tear to the eye.
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