{"id":105,"date":"2004-05-17T23:58:47","date_gmt":"2004-05-18T04:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/index.php\/linux-desktop-not-looking-so-bad\/"},"modified":"2004-05-17T23:58:47","modified_gmt":"2004-05-18T04:58:47","slug":"linux-desktop-not-looking-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/17\/linux-desktop-not-looking-so-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Desktop – Not looking so bad…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"linuxdesktop.png\"<\/a>One of the reasons I have always shied away from Linux is that the desktop has always felt unpolished to me. No matter what theme I used or what font settings I used, it just didn’t feel finished.<\/p>\n

This time around, I’ve found that much seems to have changed — at least using the Gnome desktop environment. Fonts aren’t bad at all. They aren’t near perfect yet, but not bad. I imported all my fonts from windows (oddly enough the one I found to work the best is Microsoft Sans). I then created a hybrid theme from a Linux port of Milk 2.0<\/a> and theme called Orbital<\/a>. I used the Milk 2.0 port for the window border and Orbital for the controls. <\/p>\n

I then found a nice, similar theme for Mozilla Firefox (not pictured) called Smoke<\/a>. With all that in place, fonts are looking decent (not great) and my theme is looking really nice. I also found a nice desktop calendar called gdeskcal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wow. Linux isn’t looking bad. On top of that, there are other features I really like — multiple desktops (see bottom right), Ksnapshot (a great screenshot program), cool image previews in Nautilus (Gnome’s “finder” or “file explorer”). And with my custom wall paper featuring the logo of a site<\/a> I need to revive, I’m feeling pretty good about things. Sodi Podi is the pictured illustration program that is under development for Linux. It really isn’t bad. I mocked up that small gdeskcal design in a couple minutes without too much struggle. It was a pleasant departure from the Gimp–a Photoshop clone (sorry but it is) that I just cannot get used to.<\/p>\n

So… am I switching to Linux from OS X and Win XP. Nah… I’ve used it every day for the past few days whenever I can, but the fact still remains that it can’t run Photoshop or Illustrator CS or Flash MX 2004 and I can’t work without those programs. It still fun to play with Linux (and even get some work done) on the desktop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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