On 08/06/2011 03:09 AM, Martin Dietze wrote: > On Fri, August 05, 2011, Paul Seelig wrote: > >> Just for the record, there actually is a "freaking WindowMaker Facebook >> page", even mentioning wmaker-crm, as i just found out: > > This just reminds me of something I had wanted to raise for a > while. I saw this on the screenshots and I've seen this in > practically every distro which ships WM - the default settings > are far from attractive. WM has nice themability, there are > awesome backgrounds etc., still the default WM theme is so > low-fi that people will just not go for trying it. > > To us this may not matter much as we've all configured our > desktops to something nice, but for newbies there should be a > decent pre-configuration to make it attractive (think of the > way Ubuntu pre-configures Gnome, that makes a difference). > > Maybe we can agree on some modest but attractive set of colours, > a background image and preconfigured dock to check into the > source tree. > > Paul, if you haven't done so (I've never tried it because I > don't need it *g*), in your distro you might even go further and > configure some nice dock apps into the default setup. > > Years ago I used to administer a computer room where I > configured WM as the dfault desktop (and where I preconfigured > some nice features). Still many students switched to KDE or > Gnome, but many stuck with WM and are still using it today. > > Cheers, > > M'bert >
I haven't posted to the list in a bit, but as Martin may remember (and Carlos), I have my own Window Maker distro. http://liquidlemur.org is the site. The current (Beta 3) theme is simple and to the point (Check the Gallery at the site). However, a couple of people from the community have created some nice Lemur-ish themes that are pretty nice. I've made 2 or 3 myself. Also, my distro comes with a few dock apps pre-installed along with a custom menu. Everyone seems to like it. Anyway, I've been collecting as much Window Maker stuff as I can, before it's lost forever. I hope to set up a site soon that has all of the stuff I've collected online. A Window Maker resurrection project of sorts. :P I leave Window Maker now and then, to try out new desktops / distros. But, I always end up back on Window Maker. It's fast and allows me to get my work done. Ed -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
