My Puppy is more gorgeous than yours!
http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/icons.xmlcould u share some of your icons?
Note: A tarball of all of these icons may be downloaded here (5922kb)
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I disagree with that. When you've got windows open your desktop is covered so you can't access the icons! (unless you switch to another desktop)Pizzasgood wrote: But I see where it's good for newcommers and lazy people because it makes it faster to find stuff. Really, the wallpaper-lovers and minimal-desktop people are the ones being wierd, because they are sacrificing functionality for looks.
Having your "icons" on a panel makes them most easy to access. (and being able to click anywhere on the screeen for the menue makes the rest of the applications more easy to access than the icons.
That's how I see it, anyway.
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True Enough In Windows i eliminated my icons on the desktop and used My Quick task bar. Ive been trying to do the same in puppy only i cant seem to make my entries work.Dougal wrote:I disagree with that. When you've got windows open your desktop is covered so you can't access the icons! (unless you switch to another desktop)
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Try this:Alucard_the_dex wrote:True Enough In Windows i eliminated my icons on the desktop and used My Quick task bar. Ive been trying to do the same in puppy only i cant seem to make my entries work.
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=4632
I just updated the Dotpup, now it has an additional icon to launch mozilla, dillo and sylpheed.
Mark
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Yes, but unless you have something launch on boot, you will have immediate access to your stuff. Also, if you don't run everyting maximized (like listening to music), you can still get to them. Look at it this way: Having them there doesn't remove functionality, and it gives a boost right after booting.I disagree with that. When you've got windows open your desktop is covered so you can't access the icons! (unless you switch to another desktop)
As for the toolbar, that's my preffered method too. As I said, I'm one of the minimal-desktop crowd.
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fluxbox + xp theme
rox pinboard + gentoo icons
tux wallpaper
qtcurve gtk engines.
good fonts by recompiling freetype (available as dotpup in additional software ), gdkxft, using bitstream vera fonts.
rox pinboard + gentoo icons
tux wallpaper
qtcurve gtk engines.
good fonts by recompiling freetype (available as dotpup in additional software ), gdkxft, using bitstream vera fonts.
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Thanks Bombay.
hmmm... different,but not perfect.
Must play around with the settings a bit.
I think the freetype has the most important effect.
I personally prefer non-Antialiased fonts, how they are used by Gtk1.
On my old Mandrake I once had found a way, to activate AA only for large fonts.
must find out again, how that works.
Mark
hmmm... different,but not perfect.
Must play around with the settings a bit.
I think the freetype has the most important effect.
I personally prefer non-Antialiased fonts, how they are used by Gtk1.
On my old Mandrake I once had found a way, to activate AA only for large fonts.
must find out again, how that works.
Mark
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# This file created by gdkxft_sysinstall.
# A simple theme that uses anti-aliased fonts with many gtk widgets.
style "lil-tt"
{
font="-b&h-lucidux mono-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1"
}
style "lil-noaa"
{
font="-adobe-times-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"
}
style "lil-serif"
{
font="-urw-times-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"
}
style "lil-sans"
{
font="-urw-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"
}
style "big-sans"
{
font="-urw-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"
}
style "llil-sans"
{
font="-urw-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"
}
widget_class "*" style "lil-noaa"
widget_class "*Entry*" style "lil-serif"
widget_class "*Label*" style "lil-sans"
widget_class "*Button*" style "lil-sans"
widget_class "*Menu*" style "lil-sans"
widget_class "*MenuBar*" style "big-sans"
widget_class "*Toolbar*" style "lil-sans"
widget_class "*Frame" style "llil-sans"
ok, thanks.
I found a setting now, that is ok for me.
In Mozilla I chose Bitstream Vera, and I installed your freetype.pup.
Then I deleted all files in /etc/fonts.
I did this just for testing, and was quite astonished then that it looks good
http://dotpups.de/pics/puppy/fonts.jpg
This throws an errormessage when starting leafpad from a console:
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
But leafpad starts without problems
Mark
I found a setting now, that is ok for me.
In Mozilla I chose Bitstream Vera, and I installed your freetype.pup.
Then I deleted all files in /etc/fonts.
I did this just for testing, and was quite astonished then that it looks good
http://dotpups.de/pics/puppy/fonts.jpg
This throws an errormessage when starting leafpad from a console:
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
But leafpad starts without problems
Mark
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Yes, xft2.MU wrote:Guest, no, this is for xft1 only, but puppy uses xft2 I think?
I get no effects on gtk2 and Mozilla.
You have to edit /etc/fonts/local.conf.
Put something like this in it:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<test name="size" compare="less">
<double>11</double>
</test>
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="pixelsize" compare="less" qual="any">
<double>11</double>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
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a note to the moderators...
I think maybe the last few messages should be moved into a thread of their own with an appropriate title. This info could be useful to people who might not look in the Misc part of the forum (especially in this thread...).
It's a shame to have useful discussions buried in irrelevant threads.
It's a shame to have useful discussions buried in irrelevant threads.
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