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Puppy 4.2 - Desktop and Artwork
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Béèm
 Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Posts: 11782 Location: Brussels IBM Thinkpad R40, 256MB, 20GB, WiFi ipw2100. Frugal Lin'N'Win |
Please be kind to those who don't have a large display. On my monitor the picture is too wide. _________________ Time savers: Find packages in a snap and install using Puppy Package Manager (Menu). Consult Wikka Use peppyy's puppysearch |
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dogone
 Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 202 Location: Arizona, USA |
I must say it again, Zigbert. Stardust is looking very, very good. That is one classy desktop that will stand well up against any other Linux release. Keep up the great work! |
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WhoDo
 Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 4441 Location: Lake Macquarie NSW Australia |
Very cool, Sigmund.  You certainly could use red in the conky display including the calendar title. My problem with the red was in the menu highlight bar and icons, not on the desktop.
All in all this is becoming a VERY attractive, clean and strong Puppy look! Well done! _________________ Actions speak louder than words ... and they usually work when words don't! SIP:whodo@proxy01.sipphone.com; whodo@realsip.com |
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nic2109
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 406 Location: Hayslope, near Middlemarch, Midlands, England |
Guys; this is becoming seriously good! The brushed metal dark-grey backgrounds look really classy and contrast well with the wallpaper. Have you noticed that Lightroom and the latest Photoshop versions from Adobe look like this as does Aperture from Apple so we'd be in high-end company if we adopt this look. So please go for it. I too prefer burnt orange to red for the text, as red is just too bold and alarming. It works for the calendar though, giving today just enough emphasis. We'll need to be careful with the wallpaper as it needs to look right when "stretched" to fit from 800x600 to 1600 x 1200 and beyond as well as resolutions like 1440 x 900 which have a different aspect ratio. That'll be tricky but I hope not insurmountable. Perhaps a sample of each aspect ratio built in for selection. I'm already looking forward to this and will happily join in with "testing" when it's ready. Funny, but I recently decided to stop all this trying out new versions and just stick with 4.1. Well; that's already out of the window. This will be too good to ignore. _________________ Nick |
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cb88
 Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 1160 Location: USA |
drop the analog clock.... I can read it but digital is faster don't care about the launch bar... calendar is nice... conky could replace freememapplet since i can display ram usage with gradiets i might add as well 
+1 on the background on the red... black is probably better for the text the conky theme could probably use some more spice however... a conky config wizard would be really nice (although editing it manually is far more powerful) this should be included too... IMO the best puppy wallpaper to date it is fun (NOTE THE WORD FUN... not just blingy which the rastapax tends to ever so slightly) and nice to look at as well http://webpages.uncc.edu/~carayfie/carayfie/sky1.jpg a screenshot of my recent jaunt into slitaz land http://webpages.uncc.edu/~carayfie/slitaz-like-i-like-it.jpg Also if any body cares the Wii-Black Gtktheme could use some TLC like some fonts are hard to read (in pidgin firefox etc... messes up openoffice?) http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Wii-Black?content=45829 _________________ Taking Puppy Linux to the limit of perfection. meanwhile try "puppy pfix=duct_tape" kernel parem eater. BeOS Max-Vectorgamma: Tyan thund 2 512 ram 2x PII 300 Vectorsigma (laptop): Gentoo Athlon II X2 2Ghz 4Gb ram radeon 4200 mesa-git |
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zigbert
 Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway |
See main post for pic of complete desktop Sigmund _________________ Stardust resources |
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DaveS
 Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK |
Looks REALLY cool. I went this way in 4.1, using the tray as a quick-launch bar, and with the desktop background from Xubuntu
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SirDuncan
 Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 836 Location: Ohio, USA |
You mean my school was the only one that kept their clocks from back in the 50s? If you wanted to know how much longer it was until lunch, you had to read an analog clock just like your father did. In fact, it may have been the same clock. @Zigbert: I agree with the others, toss the widget clock. I really like the line-art icons for the menu. _________________ Be brave that God may help thee, speak the truth even if it leads to death, and safeguard the helpless. - A knight's oath |
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dogone
Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 202 Location: Arizona, USA |
Zigbert, those menu icons are absolutely cutting edge. I love them 'em. They're clean, modern, understated and the orange just works. 4.2's wardrobe is looking very good! |
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HairyWill
 Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK |
nice one sigmund, I really like your work. _________________ Will contribute: community website, screenshots, puplets, wiki, rss |
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Lobster
Official Crustacean  Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15109 Location: Paradox Realm |
I think this is a great default scheme and hopefully we can swap it for the 'tangerine dream' (or 'citrus cut' theme) that is currently in Puppy. (there are 5 themes in 4.1.1) I would suggest that the blue icons on the desktop do not meld well with the current theme but the menu icons are both minimalist and obvious (very hard to achieve). Well done. Coming along very well.
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WhoDo
Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 4441 Location: Lake Macquarie NSW Australia |
Ah, much better IMHO. Well done, Sigmund!
I agree with Lobster about the blue desktop icons. There's a set of red icons in EZpup-4.0 that might look good on that desktop and I've got a set of very classy orange icons in my kit that might be worth a look too. I have included a small sample for your consideration.
_________________ Actions speak louder than words ... and they usually work when words don't! SIP:whodo@proxy01.sipphone.com; whodo@realsip.com |
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drongo
 Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 328 Location: UK |
One vote here for keeping the clock. Both variants in fact. They are easier to read from a distance if you don't happen to be glued to your computer. Love the theme. I don't really mind about the colours. (Mind you I liked Barry's bright yellow and peach efforts, so you can probably ignore my colour preferences.) Is everything high enough contrast for those with "senior" eyesight? |
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A MOHAMMAD ALI
Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 9 |
sir, Puppy 4.1 is excellent for debugging and repair of high end workstations. I have repaired one workstation using your Grub boot loader utility having IDE HDD. Thanks for that. At present puppy 4.1 is not detecting scsi hdd. will puppy 4.2 detect scsi harddisk ? Please include all drivers needed for for scsi harddisk detection. A. Mohammad ali ONGC Chennai India |
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dogone
Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 202 Location: Arizona, USA |
That optical drive icon looks great. When/where can we can see the rest of them? |
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