On Sunday 19 January 2014 11:48:10 you wrote:

It's also funny that customization actually puts some people off.

Curt-

Nice work Aexandre. As others have stated, just not for me, don't push for default.

Customization for pretty, for me us takes time, never see my desktops anyway. Simple key boarding/key bindings works well. The "alt+F2" key binding for running apps is my favorite. Love that the TDE run dialog has a history.

Not an old Unix guy, but I switched from WindowMaker to TDE, tramatic move, ended well :-)

said Greg Madden:

| Customization for pretty, for me us takes time, never see my desktops | anyway.

you're right about it taking time. which is why i decided upon a design i liked and have had it unchanged (except that the desktop program updates the moon picture every hour) for well over a decade. i even use the kde-classic icon theme. other themes are nice, but to me they smack of the collision between "because we can" and "because we should" that caused me to eschew kde4 and all its pomps and promises.

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 3:52 PM, dep dep@drippingwithirony.com wrote:

and i like mine totally free of icons, with just a program running as desktop, per the attached.

If I may ask, Dep, how do you access the applications menu? Do you have it through right-click or something? I don't see any task bar. (which is nice)

It reminds me of some of the UNIX desktops I dealt with long ago and far away.

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:22 PM, dep dep@drippingwithirony.com wrote:

piece of cake: i have the taskbar set to autohide

Facepalm time. I should have thought of that. :^)

Curt-

Am Sonntag, 19. Januar 2014 schrieb Thierry de Coulon:

On Sunday 19 January 2014 15.44:57 Alexandre wrote:

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Hi everyone here!

Here is some cool screenshots of my PCLinuxOS TDE setup that I just wanted to show. It is different from stock TDE, but it shows what could be done.

The icon theme is KFaenza, the style is QTCurve. There are some SuperKaramba stuff and minimal TDEUI modifications.

Have a nice day! -Alexandre

That's what's nice with TDE (and Linux): everyone can cook his/her desktop.

Your's is almost exactly everything that I don't want on mine... but it's yours and yes, it's nice it can be done :).

I like mine more "OS/2 like"

Thierry

guess mine is a bit more on the crowded side :-)

I am really enjoying seeing all these different configurations of TDE!

To those who have sent in screenshots, can I post them up on the Screenshots area of the website?

Thanks!

Tim

For me there is no problems! Will look soon at making the packaging ''bug'' report.

-Alexandre

I am really enjoying seeing all these different configurations of TDE!

To those who have sent in screenshots, can I post them up on the Screenshots area of the website?

definitly :-)

On Sunday 19 January 2014 20:32:56 Thierry de Coulon wrote:

That's what's nice with TDE (and Linux): everyone can cook his/her desktop.

Your's is almost exactly everything that I don't want on mine... but it's yours and yes, it's nice it can be done :).

Again, +1. I love that TDE can be so easily configured to suit the individual.

Even just for myself and my husband I have different Desktops. Both Trinity of course!

Having taken screenshots, I realise that they look somewhat similar, but we use them differently.

Peter uses only the applications that have icons on the panel. So long as the functions remain the same, he doesn't mind what those icons look like. I thought that he might be bored with his background picture, but was told fairly firmly yesterday to leave it alone! He doesn't use the clock and date, but I live in hope and leave them there.

I work from the keyboard. I find it useful to be reminded what is running where, but frequently actually switch using Alt-F5. Most of the time I run applications full-screen, so as others have said, I rarely see my desktop.

My granddaughter had her panel jammed full with application icons, and a fair few on her desktop too. But she is currently in Japan, so I have not got access.

Horses for courses.... It's great, isn't it?

Lisi

It occurs to me that we already have several default-settings metapackages for Debian/Ubuntu; perhaps we should find a way to allow users such as yourself to create/maintain new default-settings files for use on multiple distributions? This way we could offer several different styles right out of the box with minimal user effort/knowledge required to select something close to what they want.

The only question is, what is the best way to do this? The built in TDE theme control panel is not powerful enough AFAIK, and the packaging systems are all distro-specific.

Tim

I'm happy to hear that you can all use the settings you want! That is great!

Tim, the theme control panel is already very powerful and complete. If one day you get some time to try my PCLinuxOS LiveCD, you will be able to try the little Zenity script I made to switch between stock theme and the theme I use. The icon is on the desktop. The theme manager do 95% of the job and for the rest of it, I made some step-by-step Zenity pop-ups to tell the user what to do to finish the rest of the customization.

If you are interested in it, I can prepare a folder containing everything that is needed to get that theme. The only thing to do is to put it in : /opt/trinity/share/apps/kthememanager/themes/ and package the KFaenza icon theme with TDE.

Can I start a ''bug'' with that?

-Alexandre