On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:13:15AM -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:

I, too, am compelled to respond to this topic. Every time someone sees my desktop, the initial reaction is "Wow!" And then, after a couple of minutes spent closely examining the screen... "What *is* that?!". Then comes "Can you put that on my system?" :-) Gotta love it!

The actual reason I wanted to run Linux was that I saw somebody at work using Enlightenment! and it had a transparent terminal window. I wanted to have that. And some years later, here I am. :-) What I personally like to use to show off are windowing themes that are not just different colours. I user E! to show off here a picture (Normally there is a different background, but this is for clearaty) http://houghi.org/shots/enlightenment-001.jpg Especially for those who think that Linux is still text based. Now I also give them the following links to show how textbase Linux is: http://www.rasterman.com/files/e17_movie-00.avi http://www.rasterman.com/files/e17_movie-01.avi http://www.rasterman.com/files/e17_movie-02.avi http://www.rasterman.com/files/e17_movie-03.avi I do not use E! myself, I use WindowMaker with almost boring colors. When I am working on XP, the first thing I do is turn to the old sceme, but I do understand that pretty colours are important. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:53:16PM +0800, susing wrote:

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:58:01 +0800, houghi wrote:

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Now I also give them the following links to show how textbase Linux is: http://www.rasterman.com/files/e17_movie-00.avi http://www.rasterman.com/files/e17_movie-01.avi http://www.rasterman.com/files/e17_movie-02.avi http://www.rasterman.com/files/e17_movie-03.avi

I do not use E! myself, I use WindowMaker with almost boring colors. When I am working on XP, the first thing I do is turn to the old sceme, but I do understand that pretty colours are important.

houghi

How cool the video is! please please post some more SuSE desktop usage videos if there are.

Just look in the directory http://www.rasterman.com/files/ for pics and movies for E!. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:52:55PM +0200, jdd wrote:

houghi wrote:

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Just look in the directory http://www.rasterman.com/files/ for pics and movies for E!.

don't you think this is a waste of time? some works on SUPER for clipping some seconds and this is for displaying gadgets?

Sorry for the confusion. I was just comenting on how importand look and feel was and that it brought me to Linux. It was not my intention to bring E! to SUPER. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

On Thursday 29 September 2005 19:32, jdd wrote:

houghi wrote:

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Sorry for the confusion.

don't. I know first impression is often important, but when I tryed Enli(too long too write), it was a real burden for the PC of that time.

It was not my intention to bring

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E! to SUPER.

I see E! like a game. I was pleased to scan the menus but never used it :-)

in fact I'm really impressed by some tools like icewm that can achieve lightness and pretty shape

It's often possible to have the butter and the butter box, new SUSE aspect is already very impressive. make a true artist team look at the interface could be a good thing (I often found themes quite sad), but still keeping in mind speed :-)

jdd

This Theme with the animated background: is it possible to use that as a daylight accurate background? eg. at noon it's bright sunny, and when it rains, it does too... I mean like connected to some forecast like the firefox-plugin, can tell me the weather at my very location, even snow and that kind of stuff... would be cool to have like a window to the outside on the screen :) best regards patrick

On Thursday 29 September 2005 20:59, houghi wrote:

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 08:37:02PM +0200, Patrick Fehr wrote:

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This Theme with the animated background: is it possible to use that as a daylight accurate background? eg. at noon it's bright sunny, and when it rains, it does too... I mean like connected to some forecast like the firefox-plugin, can tell me the weather at my very location, even snow and that kind of stuff... would be cool to have like a window to the outside on the screen :)

Uhm. This is defenitly not SUPER anymore. I am sure you could change your background to whatever you want. Connect the data from any wether program (I use wmweather) and have it manipulate your background with gimp.

You take a background and with gimp in a script, you first do a layer of time of day. Next with a layer you do the weathertype and so on. Then you set that as a background.

Interesting concept and a lot of fun (and very intensive). With the differnt parameters, you could even create a mandlebrod immage.

Indeed, your idea is nice, but that's definitely too much work for me at the moment. But just out of curiosity: How could you do the "almost realtime" animation? eg. updated all 2 seconds but in the meantime fading from one picture to another, so you don't have to heat your cpu up to death. And how would you realise that in gimp? Can't really imagine, how you make the connection between gimp-pictures and the animated daylight accurate background.

An other way would be just to connect a webcam. Ain't it crazy that just looking outside is not really an option for the true nerd?

Well I thought about that too, but that would involve eye- or even head-movement, and I don't want to exhaust my body :) And it doesn't have to be the outside of my window, rather like some nice mountains and wide fields instead of grey city around, just the same weather as I have here. Thanks for your reply! best regards patrick

Houghi which tool did you used for capturing desktop? Pavel

Houghi, On Friday 30 September 2005 04:50, houghi wrote:

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Also you do not want that big yellow thing that is named after a software company shining in your screens.

If the object in question is the sun, then: a) The sun pre-dates the Sun Microsystems by several billion years, hence the astrophysical object really cannot be said to have been named after a twenty-something computer company. b) Sun Microsystems was named after an early Unix networking project at Stanford and is widely thought to stand for "Stanford University Network." It was not named after the ambiguous life-giver that some call Sol.

houghi

Randall Schulz

Randall R Schulz wrote:

b) Sun Microsystems was named after an early Unix networking project at Stanford and is widely thought to stand for "Stanford University Network." It was not named after the ambiguous life-giver that some call Sol.

"Sol": which, in Portuguese (maybe in Spanish too.?), means "Sun". The concept of the stellar object was firm, i guess...

Hi team This is what I got out from the posts: http://www.opensuse.org/SUPER_lookandfeel I would love to have more info. Anyone on here that has experience with creating Icons? Andreas

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On Mon, Oct 3, 2005 at 3:35 pm, in message <200510022235.35356.suselinux@cehartung.com>, suselinux@cehartung.com wrote: On Sunday 02 October 2005 21:44, Andreas Girardet wrote: Anyone on here that has experience with creating Icons?

Andreas

Hi Andreas,

I probably don't have as much experience as the established artists you're accustomed to working with, but there's no better way to get a skill

polished up than to take up real- life opportunities... what are you looking for?

Well ... I am accustomed to my own self, who honestly sucks at graphics as I am nearly blind (-12 shortsighted + heavy astigmasism) ;) .... I am sure you will be fine. What I need is someone who can Project Manage this part of SUPER. It is all in all getting to much for me alone. I just don't want this to be a one man project ..... Andreas