Gnome Desktop
Posted by Quinn at August 29th, 2006 5:22pm under OpenSource 0 Comments Permalink
This is the screenshot from my Gnome Desktop on Gentoo Linux system, which I recently set up on Dell C640 laptop. Doesn't this look very much like Mac OS X?
I am even able to watch Flash movies at YouTube and also mov videos. But those are just for fun. What I need the most is to be able to choose Japanese inputs while running apps/system in English. That's what I do with Mac OS X, and I was successful with this one too!
I am using Glossy P theme with Gorilla icons. I am sure there are more Mac OS X like themes and icons. I like the top bar of window which just looks like Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4). However, these blue scroll bars are too bright for me. I prefer gray or something else but I don't know how to change it at this moment.
I used Gnome's Configuration Editor to change the buttons on top bar of window. I chose Applications >> System Tools >> Configuration Editor, then it will launch the app. In the Configuration Editor window, I chose app >> metacity >> general, which finaly led me to edit button_layout to the value "close,minimize,maximize:menu", which will layout the buttons to just like Mac OS X.
I haven't really used Bluefish Editor or gPHPedit yet, so I don't know what's like to be using this environment as my web developing work, but it doesn't look bad at all.
So, am I going to switch my primary environment to this? Only probem at this moment for me is the hardware. I never liked any PC machines. So, it seems the chances are depend on this question - when will I able to buy a MacBook? Then, again I probably never can leave Mac OS X.. Anyway, I think it's good to have more choices and choose one over the others on whatever needed, right?
