Hi Rodolfo, On 01/31/2012 06:01 PM, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote: > More topposting. > Sorry, a very bad habit of mine from work in the business...
> 1. I tried to download the file. IMO the .xz extensión is not common, > why not tgz, tgz,...? > It will become more common as it saves considerable storage space: $ ls -Gg wmlive-create_0.46.tar.* -rw-rw-r-- 1 13709860 Jan 31 18:17 wmlive-create_0.46.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 13778636 Jan 31 18:05 wmlive-create_0.46.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 12524768 Jan 31 17:40 wmlive-create_0.46.tar.xz $ dpkg -S $(which unxz) $(which xz) xz-utils: /usr/bin/unxz xz-utils: /usr/bin/xz In debian/unstable even my favorite file manager Midnight Commander is able to handle xzipped tar archives. We should start to get used to it, so that it finally becomes yet another standard. ) > 2. Is possible to add your menu scripts in the windowmaker upstream or > debian/ubuntu packages? > If it is of any use, please just go ahead. The main script is BTW not really written by myself, but is an adapted/reused script from Arch Linux, which was adapted/reused from SuSE Linux, etc. Merry code go round! :) > 3. Why not add all these stuff (themes,...) in one place at > upstream/package? > I guess in the long run this would be very good, but i am unsure if it really is a good idea to stuff everything and the kitchen sink into the upstream sources. This is an easy path to lose focus and orientation. > I was thinking about the menu system, if is better for you, probably is > better for more people. I will try to take a look, and if is better, we > can work to add it to the upstream or debian/ubuntu. > Some informed cherry picking would probably be the best approach. Unfortunately i do not understand this code very well, so i didn't dare to modify it more than necessary to make it work. Regards Paul > Thanks! > kix > > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:07:38 +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: >> Hi Martin, >> >> To tell the truth, personally i consider the default configuration to be >> highly attractive, and it even almost matches my personal desktop. I >> prefer my work environment to be simple, clean, straightforward and >> almost empty. Actually i dislike too much eye candy, and my focus is >> defintely more on the functional side of things. >> >> Check out http://liquidlemur.com/lforum/showthread.php?tid=78 for >> pointers like these here: >> >> http://www.jessanderson.org/wmthemes >> http://www.mumblelina.com/index.php?themes=1 >> http://www.cs.mun.ca/~gstarkes/wmaker/themes >> http://www.gozer.org/window_maker/themes/ >> >> There are lots of possibilities to improve the eye candy aspect, just >> like the Liquid Lemur WMaker Live CD has proven. I downloaded the >> current RC1 of the Liquid Lemur WMaker edition today from >> www.liquidlemur.com/cms/downloads and while it is defintely very well >> done technical wise, i didn't really like this visual "right in your >> face" overstatement. >> >> Actually i wanted to avoid this at all cost, because for me such >> superficial enhancements are just wasting time without any functional >> benefit. Form follows function. ;) >> >> Yes, the nice GTK2-Step theme doesn't work anymore with GTK3 based >> applications, and unfortunately i haven't found any suitable GTK3-Step >> equivalent yet. I prefer this theme due to its clear and simple look. >> >> Thanks >> Paul >> >> On 01/30/2012 11:27 PM, Martin Dietze wrote: >>> On Mon, January 30, 2012, Paul Seelig wrote: >>> >>>> with the newly released wmaker-0.95.1 with it's now fully functional >>>> debianization, i have updated my WMLive web page with a new build of a >>>> live WindowMaker system based on Ubuntu 11.04. On >>> >>> Very good initiative! >>> It seems like you've configured Firefox/Thunderbird to use the >>> GtkStep2 theme? Just out of interest, I noticed that this theme >>> does no longer work with the more recent GTK-based applications >>> (gtk3 if I'm not too mistaken) - has anyone cared to create a >>> STEP-like theme for the current gtk version? >>> >>> One last thing - I think you can make the default configuration >>> a bit more attractive if you preconfigure a nice background >>> image, also (I haven't seen the CD yet) if it's bundled with >>> some nice themes to choose from. Just an idea - why not ask >>> people to send in their personal configurations - themes and >>> dock (WMState) and add the best ones to the distro, so that >>> users can choose from them? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> M'bert >>> > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
