Taking gOS (the theme) for a spin

Being playing for a little time with the gOS theme for Gnome, this release is called gOS 3.0, nice indeed, but I'm pretty sure it won't stay on Tango for long.

It is a clear and pretty nice theme, but, for the moment at least, the Ubuntu browns are with me, and the Emerald Human Tiger is as best as I want, at least, once again, for the moment.

Verdebuntu (2)

More on the Verdebuntu "theme" or whatever.

Right now, these are the global settings I'm using at the moment:

- Human-Clearlooks is the theme
- Inverted is the window border (Not totally sure that its being used, since I'm using Emerald as the window manager... See below)
- Tangerine is the icon set
- Mac4Lin_Cursors is the cursor icon set.

The settings on the theme, to acess them go to:
"System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Customize -> Colors"

(That's a f*ckload of a path, man!)


- Windows:

background: a6db97
text: 184D13

- Input boxes:

background: b0d6ad
text: 096001

- Selected items:

background: 6db336
text: 096001

- Tooltips:

background: 66b01f
text: 096001

The settings on the Emerald theme, a very, very little modified version of the truly wonderful Human Tiger:

- Active window:

Text fill: 1E5019
Text outline: 94B291
Bottom outline: 0A270C

- Inactive window:

Text fill: 357E2F
Text outline: A6DB97

Verdebuntu

A work in progress, yadda yadda yadda, I was a little bit tired of the grey, but not totally convinced to the green hue that I'm using for the color of the windows...
Some time I like it, and others reminds me of a little puppy diarrhea.

Sort of the distant cousin, or better yet, the European and refined cousin for this old matte. Or at least, I want to believe it is more refined than the old one... Probably, if a graphic designer sees this might have a heart attack.

Ahh, gOS, those were the days!!!

Adventures in Ubuntu Land: More on mimicking gOS

I have found on this site many, if not all, of the gOS icons, some wallpapers, and more importantly, the usplash icon set and source files, so you can make your own gOS booting splash image while using your plain vanilla Ubuntu box.
It took me a while, but in the end, I got my usplash up & running. Also used the source code from the Usplash from Ubuntu, got it here, for instance, and took a lot of hints from the 'usplash-theme-ubuntu.c' file.

Adventures in Ubuntu Land: Mimicking gOS

Well, after using gOS for a while, it didn't convinced me to jump ship, so I searched a bit how to get a theme for a plain vanilla Ubuntu installation.
Googling for info on how and where I can get the wallpapers, icons, etc, found out that it seems like you can actually install it on top of your regular Ubuntu:

- Truco/Solución: Instala gOS en Ubuntu

- Is there a way to install the gOS desktop on top of a current Ubuntu installation such that it is an additionnal session option in GDM?

- HOWTO: Install gOS on Ubuntu

After installing it (it obviously adds Enlightenment to your Ubuntu box) used for some time, but it didn't convinced me either, it is not exactly like the real thing, the gOS site does warn you about the differences between the real gOS, and the Ubuntu theme:

"Currently there is a greenos-desktop package in our repository, but it will not give you the complete experience."

So I got the wallpaper, the GDM theme, and the usplash theme, and so decided to get my Ubuntu themed like gOS (see the screenshot). Using as a base the Gnome's default Mist theme, giving it a touch of green hues in various tints. Also, I wanted to replicate the main menu on gOS, that has a green leaf instead of the 'Start here' from the Windows menu, so, I googled info no how to replace the Ubuntu logo, it was a bit daunting, because most of the info available is for earlier releases, so here it is: Changing the Ubuntu Start Menu Panel Icon, and my own commands:


sudo cp ~/your.22x22.icon.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/distributor-logo.png
sudo gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/gnome/
killall gnome-panel

Taking gOS for a spin

Being a bit busy (a f*cked up backup server, had to reroute all some of the backups to the second one)
I read about gOS about 20 days ago, but had no time to download it yet, so I got it, and boot it on my Compaq Presario to test drive it.
There are many, many, many reviews out there.
One thing I love about it, right after I saw it ,is the GUI, the theme, the looks of it.

gOS uses Enlightenment as the Window Manager/ (light) Desktop environment, I have used it before, briefly, a couple of years ago, mostly because there was a cool (a the time) Os X Aqua theme available for it.
As I mentioned on other posts, the resolution of the Compaq Presario is a real show stopper, just look how a few Terminals clog the whole desktop... Besides, this theme it is not designed to be uses with such a meager resolution.





The icons, the Dock, or 'iBar', are really good, and it works rather well and feels snappy, even though I was running it from a live CD session. The thing I don't like much is the whole I of having a huge bar on the right side of the screen with that clock, and those 'Network Neighborhood-like' computer icon (that only echoes your IP address...)
If you have more icons on your iBar, or minimized, that the ones that they 'fit', they will scroll, so you can find the one you want.





One thing I found rather comic is that they place a Google search widget on the desktop, that the first time that you use it, it prints a huge banner warning.
Another thing, there is no screen capture program, so I had to take the screenshots the old school X Window way, and then use The Gimp to convert them to regular jpg files.