Why do all the desktops look so bad

[wendy-lebaron]

i can't help putting this down. i haven't downloaded it yet. i should check it out. to see if i could get a better desktop. than any of the ones i put up with. (j.k.)

GitHub - pkgforge-dev/Quickshell-AppImage: Unofficial AppImage of Quickshell [Maintainer=@Samueru-sama]

Unofficial AppImage of Quickshell [Maintainer=@Samueru-sama] - pkgforge-dev/Quickshell-AppImage

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Quickshell

A fully user customizable desktop shell

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i dislike replying in a topic. where the op doesn't come back after 10 to 20 posts made to react. i'm sorry for being impolite revealing this. but this just came out of my mind.

go ahead and complain about linux mint's desktop. last week in checked out debian "bullseye." with cinnamon desktop. could criticize it all day for its appearance. even with some of "menta" mate theme. but it works well. which is important to me.

i downloaded some themes. for spirallinux with cinnamon desktop. and "bookworm" base because i didn't like "numix" theme. didn't like the red highlights in the file manager and other places. came up with something. that was probably seen before in screenshots. dominated by white. i dislike the majority of "dark mode" themes that are available. especially "debonaire" that comes with q4os. generally shun any "dark mode" theme for kde plasma and for xfce. for mate the only good one was for manjaro mate a few years ago.

if there's one thing sparky linux do well. are the themes for mate. i use one instead of "menta." but not on the system i'm on now. debian "bookworm" with mate. i prefer "menta" there because it's my daily driver.

i do have an example of spirallinux with cinnamon. with "dark mode" but it's just to test things out. admittedly it looks pretty. prefer that much more than any standard look of linux mint. and most of the ubuntu flavors anytime. however i have to deal with the beefy gnome window titlebars. i wish i could make it smaller.

 

[Cyberbleuet]

That's your opinion!

 

[Vektor]

Is this another drive-by-posting with dozens of victims?

Vektor

 

[kc1di]

Is this another drive-by-posting with dozens of victims?

Vektor

You may be right!

 

[craigevil]

“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.”​

― John Lydgate

 

[beanburrito]

"I go where I please and I please where I go" - Duke Nukem

 

[The Duck]

Why do all the desktops look so bad.​

I hate all the linux desktops someone help make my mint look better

Take some initiative and learn how to change the theme and look of the desktop.

 

[PuppyHome]

so these days, I build my own from scratch, making use of nothing more than the JWM window manager and the ROX-Filer "pinboard" extension (for placement).

Same here (well, not from scratch. Yet). Taste is a personal thing of course but I wouldn't call this bad.....

The tools that has been used to create this are seen here. 2 windows are shaded as you can see. Inactive windows made transparent. This is BookwormPup64 and 30 minutes ago this was a standard desktop. Changed theme, Icon theme and wallpaper and 1 tweak with Picom.

Not saying this is a masterpiece (it's not) but just to prove the point that a user can turn any desktop into something they'd like and work with. With applying some work of course.

 

[The Duck]

It looks like Windows 95 or earlier.
That's fine if you like retro style desktop however for modern concept it's unacceptable.

Haha maybe it does. But seriously gets the job done for me. I don't know what I supposed to change to make it more "modern". Add crazy icon set? Transparent panels? Shift panels around? No idea. XFCE on itself is conservative already.

Exactly it get the job done.

Why does everything have to look modern.

 

[MikeRocor]

....so these days, I build my own from scratch, making use of nothing more than the JWM window manager and the ROX-Filer "pinboard" extension (for placement).

By "ROX-Filer "pinboard" extension (for placement)", do you mean placement of icons on the desktop?

I've tried that sort of thing but was never happy with the results. I currently use jwm with its config file tweaked to my liking and a separate icon bar (wbar) that's also tweaked to my liking.

 

[MikeWalsh]

@PuppyHome :-

Nice one, mate!

I gotta confess; Radky's work over the years with his JWMDesk Manager GUI app has made the "tweaking" of JWM's text files SO much easier for mere mortals.

I'm "old-school", though; although I do make use of various of JWMDesk Manager's abilities, I still do certain stuff - like main Menu customization - via the relevant XML config files.....simply because I have a very specific set-up, and frequently add 2nd-level (and sometimes even 3rd-level) 'sub-menus' for certain categories/items.

(I have a custom ~/.jwm/jwmrc-theme file - the result of several month's experimentation, some years ago now - which I use across the kennels).

Even Radky's magnificent GUI app doesn't quite handle THAT level of modification - yet! - though, as stated above, for most folks it WILL do more than everything normally required of it.


Mike.

 

[MikeWalsh]

@MikeRocor :-

By "ROX-Filer "pinboard" extension (for placement)", do you mean placement of icons on the desktop?

Yup. Since most Puppies use ROX-Filer by default, the "pinboard" extension also comes enabled by default.

This does make placing executable icon launchers on the desktop a breeze, since the pinboard "grid" is of course an integral part OF the file-manager anyway.....and treats the "desktop" - which we 'define' via JWM - as simply an additional - though "special" - ROX 'window'.

Works really rather well, TBH.


Mike.

 

[PuppyHome]

That's a next level approach @MikeWalsh