"Theme development is a tedious and difficult task, and for the GTK devs to be so careless in breaking their API at every turn disrespects the many hours people put into making themes for it. [...] I was given to believe that this breakage stems from a Microsoft-like climate of preventing users from customizing their systems, and deliberately breaking the work of others so that your 'brand' is the best. Anytime I hear the word 'brand' being used in Linux, I know something valuable is being poisoned." I find the tone of this one a bit too harsh and overly negative at times, but his point still stands.
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Member since:2010-01-21
Here's what my taskbar looks like.
http://i.imgur.com/sZMPH.png
The upper one is basically its default state though I believe, if the taskbar were actually that short, lxpanel wouldn't be wasting so much space inside each task button. (I screenshotted my 2560x1024 desktop and clipped out the middle of the taskbar to shrink it)
The lower one is a composite image showing all the on-hover and tray icon notification states. (Except for Deluge, which uses blinking rather than an alternate icon to grab your attention.)
The chat icon is Pidgin and mail icon is Thunderbird with the FireTray extension.
It's all accomplished either by using the LXPanel config dialogs or by putting files in ~/.local/share and ~/.trinity (KDE 3) to override or extend the system Elementary icon theme.
https://github.com/ssokolow/profile/tree/master/home/.local/share/im...
https://github.com/ssokolow/profile/tree/master/home/.local/share/ic...
https://github.com/ssokolow/profile/tree/master/home/.trinity/share/...
For the most part, the normal states are Elementary panel icons meant for a light panel background while the notification ones are their dark background counterparts, but there are a few tweaked Faenza panel icons in there too.
I've blogged about the rationale for this approach (back before I polished it up this much) if you want to see more about how I use it: (For example, Audacious's tray icon doubles as a volume knob via the scroll wheel)
http://blog.ssokolow.com/archives/2012/02/15/polishing-up-the-lubun...
I've also blogged about the (imperfect) process I used to adjust the Faenza icons if you find yourself needing more:
http://blog.ssokolow.com/archives/2012/02/14/converting-faenza-pane...
Member since:2008-11-25
That actually looks great. I would nix the taskbar obviously, as I use alt-tabbing and desktops, but other than that, much better than I thought the LXPanel could look.
Also, I was reading up on the KDE release plan, and 4.10 (out in January) has a folder drawer widget, which would seem to be exactly what you wanted.
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2008-11-25
That would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
https://github.com/ssokolow/profile/blob/master/home/
Thanks again. I'd share mine in return, but it is very basic due to the length of time I have been using vim.