My circumstances were a bit odd. I use Debian with GNOME and the Bluecurve theme converted over from Fedora Core 3. The way it is set up by default, the/etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme is a symlink to/usr/share/themes/Industrial/cursor.theme, so the mouse cursor is always the Industrial themed cursor. It's a nice-looking cursor, but I wanted Bluecurve all the way, so I had to re-point it to/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/cursor.theme to get the Bluecurve mouse cursor going.
At least it's a five-speed. Though this project is a good example of when not to use brushed aluminum covers. Ugh. It might have been OK if the front panel didn't have sharp 90 degree angles or a bezel or something, but it looks kind of hackish the way it is now.
Wow, these guys really do have a death wish. Not only did they post Mac stuff to Slashdot, their "site is down" page has a refresh tag to ensure that the process of DDoSing itself is completely automated.
I actually do hope it's better than K3B. It shouldn't be too hard to surpass a program that feels the need to entirely ignore the record speed I select.
Eww..that's no surprise - a proprietary Linux application that uses some crusty GUI API like Motif. (Think of all the wonderful commercial applications that come with SuSE like Adobe Acrobat that are crusted to hell)
Hmm...I'm hoping that it's actually GTK or QT and the system in the screenshots is using a Motif-style theme for one of the main GUI libraries.
Parent post is not flamebait. It was a general comment on how uncustomizable the Gnome GUI is. When you can't do so much as change your mouse cursor from the preferencess window and have to re-point your/etc/alternatives/x-mouse-cursor to a new theme file instead, things are very wrong.
You laugh, but I just browsed Torrentreactor.net and saw NeroLinux on there. I was thinking, "WTF?" I thought it may have been some crap Wine port, but then I saw this article.
Boy, if you don't like the way XP icons look, you're gonna really hate the way Linux icons look now.
The Fisher-Price syndrome of the windows can be overcome. It's mostly the fault of the Luna theme that XP locks you into. Do a Google search for a modified uxtheme.dll and instructions on how to replace the original with it. With that in place, you can get custom themes. The one I'm currently using is Metallic Shades.
This doesn't help you at all for changing the icons unfortunately, but the theme doesn't suggest any sort of wacko icons, and the default ones look quite nice in it.
Just tried Gaim again with the newer GTK. The sytem tray icon applet looks better, but the rest of the GUI is so goddamned ugly. I wish Windows GTK was just a wrapper to the WIMP method of drawing windows, but it appears to be a way to reinvent the wheel. The black X-style cursor when inside the buddy list and the way the pull-down menus look are a dead giveaway of that.
I might use Gaim under Windows if somebody does something with the damn Windows port of GTK. For something that should merely be an API wrapper, it sure does a crappy job. 4-bit system tray icons in Windows XP? Double-u Tee Eff?
That's no surprise. Is that bug still there where AIM completely ignores the preference to not show that at login unless you click on junk in the AIM.com window at least once?
At least their preferences are laid out in a sensible Netscape-style window with the categories on the left. The problem is that there's just too many damn useless features to configure, as well as the fact that the actual preferences menu item is buried deep within a pull-down menu titled "My AIM". What the fuck does that tell me as a category and what options are under it? With the narrow amount of space in the menu area, it would be much better off with an "Actions" menu for everyday functions and a "Tools" menu for all the extra wacky features that nobody uses.
Because Japan is such a major suicide culture (revolving around one's honor), I've heard the government actually charges survivors for cleanup costs since this happens so much on public ground. Though, I have no idea how much extra money they make off of it.
Messed up, I know, but this is coming from a place where somebody will hand you their medical bill or sue for their broken ribs after you save their life performing CPR on them.
Ok, the highest I ever saw it get to was 65 degrees Celsius. The only time I saw that happen was when I caught AOL Instant Messenger getting stuck at 99% CPU utilization overnight on their machine. Similar results when letting it render DVD video in Pinnacle Studio for a few hours. Other than those two times, I usually see it peak at 62 or 63.
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My circumstances were a bit odd. I use Debian with GNOME and the Bluecurve theme converted over from Fedora Core 3. The way it is set up by default, the /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme is a symlink to /usr/share/themes/Industrial/cursor.theme, so the mouse cursor is always the Industrial themed cursor. It's a nice-looking cursor, but I wanted Bluecurve all the way, so I had to re-point it to /usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/cursor.theme to get the Bluecurve mouse cursor going.
At least it's a five-speed. Though this project is a good example of when not to use brushed aluminum covers. Ugh. It might have been OK if the front panel didn't have sharp 90 degree angles or a bezel or something, but it looks kind of hackish the way it is now.
Wow, these guys really do have a death wish. Not only did they post Mac stuff to Slashdot, their "site is down" page has a refresh tag to ensure that the process of DDoSing itself is completely automated.
They used verion 1? What's their excuse for that? Maybe if development began in the late 90s, but not this. Good god.
You have been banned for having too much megahertz.
I actually do hope it's better than K3B. It shouldn't be too hard to surpass a program that feels the need to entirely ignore the record speed I select.
Eww..that's no surprise - a proprietary Linux application that uses some crusty GUI API like Motif. (Think of all the wonderful commercial applications that come with SuSE like Adobe Acrobat that are crusted to hell)
Hmm...I'm hoping that it's actually GTK or QT and the system in the screenshots is using a Motif-style theme for one of the main GUI libraries.
Parent post is not flamebait. It was a general comment on how uncustomizable the Gnome GUI is. When you can't do so much as change your mouse cursor from the preferencess window and have to re-point your /etc/alternatives/x-mouse-cursor to a new theme file instead, things are very wrong.
Dell customers who use Linux...there's your large customer base right there!
You laugh, but I just browsed Torrentreactor.net and saw NeroLinux on there. I was thinking, "WTF?" I thought it may have been some crap Wine port, but then I saw this article.
Boy, if you don't like the way XP icons look, you're gonna really hate the way Linux icons look now.
The Fisher-Price syndrome of the windows can be overcome. It's mostly the fault of the Luna theme that XP locks you into. Do a Google search for a modified uxtheme.dll and instructions on how to replace the original with it. With that in place, you can get custom themes. The one I'm currently using is Metallic Shades.
This doesn't help you at all for changing the icons unfortunately, but the theme doesn't suggest any sort of wacko icons, and the default ones look quite nice in it.
I use Debian alongside Windows XP. Gaim looks great under GNOME with the Bluecurve theme applied (ports over nicely via alien).
Somebody ought to really update the sounds, too, though. On any OS, they sound like crap. What sample rate are those recorded at, anyway? 6 kHz?
Just tried Gaim again with the newer GTK. The sytem tray icon applet looks better, but the rest of the GUI is so goddamned ugly. I wish Windows GTK was just a wrapper to the WIMP method of drawing windows, but it appears to be a way to reinvent the wheel. The black X-style cursor when inside the buddy list and the way the pull-down menus look are a dead giveaway of that.
I might use Gaim under Windows if somebody does something with the damn Windows port of GTK. For something that should merely be an API wrapper, it sure does a crappy job. 4-bit system tray icons in Windows XP? Double-u Tee Eff?
That's no surprise. Is that bug still there where AIM completely ignores the preference to not show that at login unless you click on junk in the AIM.com window at least once?
At least their preferences are laid out in a sensible Netscape-style window with the categories on the left. The problem is that there's just too many damn useless features to configure, as well as the fact that the actual preferences menu item is buried deep within a pull-down menu titled "My AIM". What the fuck does that tell me as a category and what options are under it? With the narrow amount of space in the menu area, it would be much better off with an "Actions" menu for everyday functions and a "Tools" menu for all the extra wacky features that nobody uses.
Definitely a George Carlin fan.
1400 MB compressed in the installer format. There is a difference. Isn't GTA on PS2 the full 4.3 GB?
Here in Arizona you can carry a weapon openly
"Hi, I'm Steve-O, and in Arizona, this is _totally_legal_"
[extends jumbo spring-loaded 4' swiss army knife]
"Dude, it's like a sword!"
link text here works quite well. Why not use that? It took about ten seconds to write. It's not that big of a deal.
"Just because you're dead, don't think the law doesn't apply to you!"
Depends on how many lawyers are after you.
Sideshow Bob: "Oh, that's just German for, 'The, Bart, The.'"
Turn your car in a closed garage.
What's so painful about knocking out your garage wall with your car? *ba-dum tsssshhhh!*
Because Japan is such a major suicide culture (revolving around one's honor), I've heard the government actually charges survivors for cleanup costs since this happens so much on public ground. Though, I have no idea how much extra money they make off of it.
Messed up, I know, but this is coming from a place where somebody will hand you their medical bill or sue for their broken ribs after you save their life performing CPR on them.
Ok, the highest I ever saw it get to was 65 degrees Celsius. The only time I saw that happen was when I caught AOL Instant Messenger getting stuck at 99% CPU utilization overnight on their machine. Similar results when letting it render DVD video in Pinnacle Studio for a few hours. Other than those two times, I usually see it peak at 62 or 63.
Hey, I at least liked it better than X-Wing's remake: Descent Freespace.