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10 Most Beautiful Looking Linux Desktops

12 points by pavs 18y ago

rms 18y ago
I got excited but #1 is a mockup
- mickt 18y ago
  And for the others no links or clues as to what desktop environment or window manger is used, nor what theme, background, or distro ... basically some eyecandy with no content.
  - mark-t 18y ago
    Most of them are pretty easy to tell, but many could be done in just about any window manager. 1. Not real. 2. Mac4Lin. 3. Not absolutely clear, but note that thunar's internal menus are displayed in the toolbar instead of the window, like a mac. It could be Mac4Lin again, but I'm guessing it's not real, unless there's something about thunar I don't know. 4. Enlightenment. 5. Pekwm. 6. Enlightenment. 7. Could be anything. It does have a Gnome footprint on the bottom right, though, so I'd guess metacity. 8. Fluxbox. (yay!) 9. I'm not sure. Probably compiz-fusion. 10. Could be anything.
    - eru 18y ago
      Desktop 10 has "C:\".
- icey 18y ago
  That's unfortunate - #1 was the only interesting looking one :(
- illicium 18y ago
  Yep, #1 is a quite popular and highly rated idea for Topaz (GNOME 3.0) over at Gnome-Look: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/May-B?content=45837 http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/May-B?content=45837 By the way, if anyone likes #3, it can be easily pieced together with: * Mire v2 GTK theme (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Mire+v2+themepack?content=51023 http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Mire+v2+themepack?con...) with the included Emerald window decorator theme * area o.42 icons (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/area+o.42+SVG+icon+theme?content=78259 http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/area+o.42+SVG+icon+th...) * gnome2-globalmenu (http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/ http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/) for the OS X unified menu bar
jrockway 18y ago
These are all ugly and useless. My desktop is better: http://disk.jrock.us/bingo/public/random/desktop-20080518.png http://disk.jrock.us/bingo/public/random/desktop-20080518.pn... Notice how all the space is being used for actual work instead of pretty pictures. Computers are for doing things, not looking at.
- comatose_kid 18y ago
  Which window manager are you using? And what chat program is that (running on an emacs shell?)
  - mark-t 18y ago
    It's probably ion (could be wmii or any other tiling wm), and the irc client is irssi.
    - jrockway 18y ago
      Actually, it's xmonad and erc.
- anonym 18y ago
  Nice. I like flat desktops; I will never understand the appeal of faux-3D interface elements. I must, however, confess to a weakness for transparent terminals. http://scratch.flyoverblues.com/screen.png http://scratch.flyoverblues.com/screen.png
  - rw 18y ago
    What are you using to serve your fonts?
    - anonym 18y ago
      I don't really know enough about Linux fonts to answer that. The window manager, Ion, does not support Xft because its author hates anti-aliasing, so I'm not sure what is rendering the title bars -- just X, I think. The terminal font is Inconsolata as rendered by rxvt-unicode with Xft support. (Emacs is being run -nw, so it's just using the same terminal fonts.)
flipbrad 18y ago
if I'm being honest, I think I prefer Vista to all of those, excepting perhaps the mockup, #1.

12 points by pavs 18y ago

rms 18y ago

I got excited but #1 is a mockup

mickt 18y ago
And for the others no links or clues as to what desktop environment or window manger is used, nor what theme, background, or distro ... basically some eyecandy with no content.
- mark-t 18y ago
  Most of them are pretty easy to tell, but many could be done in just about any window manager. 1. Not real. 2. Mac4Lin. 3. Not absolutely clear, but note that thunar's internal menus are displayed in the toolbar instead of the window, like a mac. It could be Mac4Lin again, but I'm guessing it's not real, unless there's something about thunar I don't know. 4. Enlightenment. 5. Pekwm. 6. Enlightenment. 7. Could be anything. It does have a Gnome footprint on the bottom right, though, so I'd guess metacity. 8. Fluxbox. (yay!) 9. I'm not sure. Probably compiz-fusion. 10. Could be anything.
  - eru 18y ago
    Desktop 10 has "C:\".
icey 18y ago
That's unfortunate - #1 was the only interesting looking one :(
illicium 18y ago
Yep, #1 is a quite popular and highly rated idea for Topaz (GNOME 3.0) over at Gnome-Look: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/May-B?content=45837 http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/May-B?content=45837 By the way, if anyone likes #3, it can be easily pieced together with: * Mire v2 GTK theme (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Mire+v2+themepack?content=51023 http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Mire+v2+themepack?con...) with the included Emerald window decorator theme * area o.42 icons (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/area+o.42+SVG+icon+theme?content=78259 http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/area+o.42+SVG+icon+th...) * gnome2-globalmenu (http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/ http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/) for the OS X unified menu bar

jrockway 18y ago

These are all ugly and useless. My desktop is better: http://disk.jrock.us/bingo/public/random/desktop-20080518.png http://disk.jrock.us/bingo/public/random/desktop-20080518.pn... Notice how all the space is being used for actual work instead of pretty pictures. Computers are for doing things, not looking at.

comatose_kid 18y ago
Which window manager are you using? And what chat program is that (running on an emacs shell?)
- mark-t 18y ago
  It's probably ion (could be wmii or any other tiling wm), and the irc client is irssi.
  - jrockway 18y ago
    Actually, it's xmonad and erc.
anonym 18y ago
Nice. I like flat desktops; I will never understand the appeal of faux-3D interface elements. I must, however, confess to a weakness for transparent terminals. http://scratch.flyoverblues.com/screen.png http://scratch.flyoverblues.com/screen.png
- rw 18y ago
  What are you using to serve your fonts?
  - anonym 18y ago
    I don't really know enough about Linux fonts to answer that. The window manager, Ion, does not support Xft because its author hates anti-aliasing, so I'm not sure what is rendering the title bars -- just X, I think. The terminal font is Inconsolata as rendered by rxvt-unicode with Xft support. (Emacs is being run -nw, so it's just using the same terminal fonts.)

flipbrad 18y ago

if I'm being honest, I think I prefer Vista to all of those, excepting perhaps the mockup, #1.