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Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:05 pm
by twodogs
bu99zy wrote:My LMDE Desktop running KDE
Very nice setup. Is this KDE 4.10? Could you tell me how you went about installing KDE on LMDE? Do you like it better than Mint KDE? Have a good day and thanks for sharing!

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:48 pm
by raymerjacque
This is My current Cinnamon 14.1 Desktop ( Tried to give it a Gnome3 Look ) :

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Everything displayed on the desktop runs without problems, The games with wine ofcourse ( after much tweaking ). the Windows 8 icon is a shortcut to my Windows 8 Vmware machine. The icons i spent a few days customising, as im sure you will notice i dont use default icons for anything really...

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:13 pm
by bu99zy
twodogs wrote:
bu99zy wrote:My LMDE Desktop running KDE
Very nice setup. Is this KDE 4.10? Could you tell me how you went about installing KDE on LMDE? Do you like it better than Mint KDE? Have a good day and thanks for sharing!
Thanks Twodogs.

This is KDE 4.8.4, I used Schoelje's unofficial LMDE KDE found here. (This install is from his very 1st one he released and I've just been updating) I did try the normal LMDE distro and had KDE installed from the offical Mint repo, late last year, but found it problematic and it took too much disk space, so I reinstalled using Schoelje's distro.

Yes I do like it much better than the normal Mint KDE as LMDE is a semi-rolling distro and I don't have to do a reinstall/major upgrade every 6 months.

At the moment there is no KDE 4.10 Debian based repo i know of, the only one that is close to getting a working repo is Leszek from ZevenOS, his Neptune distro which is based on Debian Testing has KDE 4.10 RC and he is working on the final KDE 4.10, once he has it finished I'll add his repo and try to get KDE 4.10 on one of my LMDE-KDE Testing installs.

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:30 pm
by zerozero
@ raymerjacque
there's clear instructions in the OP howto use thumbnails.

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:33 pm
by raymerjacque
sorry did not see that, fixed it :)

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:34 pm
by zerozero
LMDE-KDE 4.9.5
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apart from a major DE update and steam nothing else changed much :D

bu99zy,
great shot 8)

raymerjacque
:D

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:36 pm
by tdockery97
Successful upgrade to KDE 4.10:

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Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:41 pm
by Orbmiser
Congrats on getting KDE up and running everyone.

Change mine a bit and made it a lot less busy dual display desktop.
With just a vertical panel. Never did like the bottom panel as stoled important real estate from apps.

KDE Mint 14 backport to 4.10 on dual displays. Never understood all the complaints of KDE being a resource Hog? :shock:
As to desktop state is a couple hundred megs less than Cinnamon clocking in at 462mb for KDE. So where is all this resource hog issues?
As found more responsive and snappier than my Cinnamon 14 desktop.

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Desktop Dual KDE 4.10 - 462mb by Orbmiser, on Flickr

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Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:11 am
by bu99zy
zerozero wrote:
bu99zy,
great shot 8)
Cheers Zerozero, your KDE 4.9.5 desktop looks really good, so good I've pulled the trigger and switched to testing so I can install KDE 4.9.5.

Also a big thanks for that info about steam, finally got it installed =)

Raymerjacque, Tdockery97 and Orbmiser, great desktops too.

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:58 am
by zerozero
bu99zy
enjoy 4.9.5 and steam :wink:

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:05 am
by raymerjacque
I use a 23 inch wide Cinema 3D monitor, so desktop I made with dark background, dark toolbars and window borders and so froth to really make everything else pop up, even icons are designed to give that popup look and it looks really great, In 2D its also good, but not as great as 3D obviously.

btw, gaming in linux in 3D is awesome... My windows friends are so jealous, most of them arent computer nerds, just gaming freaks so they think linux has something to do with the whole 3D gaming thing ... I just smile and urge them to try mint and get a cinema 3D monitor :)

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 12:10 am
by bimsebasse
You can probably guess what OS this is:

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I knew Metro was going to be a touch friendly experience but I'm surprised at how bothersome it is if you don't use it with a touchscreen. It's not, like Gnome Shell and to some extent Unity, a desktop UI which has taken on some ideas and concepts from touch interfaces, it's 100% purpose made for touch devices, much more so than the Android OS on my phone (which works sorta OK as a desktop OS - http://www.webupd8.org/2012/07/android- ... -with.html).

I can only imagine how many old Windows users around the world daily are utterly perplexed when they experience Metro for the first time on a laptop or a PC. But it's not fair to judge it as a desktop OS because it looks like an easy-to-use and simple interface for touchscreens and I'd love to play with it on a tablet, it's just Microsoft's marketing that's weird - can't believe they're targeting it at desktop/laptop users at all.

I installed the classicshell UI makeover (the "Gnome Classic" of Windows 8 - only chance my girlfriend will like Win 8 and not ask me to install Win 7 again) which gives this result:
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A slightly daft looking Win 7 desktop. I guess re-installing Win 7 will be on my todo-list tomorrow :D

Anyway, it's good to be back on Linux Mint again :)

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 5:34 am
by tdockery97
Havin' a little fun:

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Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 3:50 pm
by xxmlud
Bueno, os muestro mi escritorio:
El SO es Linux Mint 14 64 Bits, con KDE 4.10
Limpio:

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Sucio: Como podéis ver corriendo Steam, para los gamers.

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Espero que os guste mi estilo ;)

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 6:30 pm
by bu99zy
Final update, tweaked the wallpaper (can be downloaded here.) KDE 4.9.5 and steam installed and added some widgets.

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Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 7:35 pm
by zerozero
xxmlud wrote:Espero que os guste mi estilo ;)
mucho :D pero tienes instrucciones en el principio del topico de como usar imágenes en miniatura. gracias :D

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 7:37 pm
by zerozero
bu99zy wrote:KDE 4.9.5 and steam installed and added some widgets.
all the rest is gorgeous :D but those widgets :shock: i want!

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:20 pm
by vrkalak
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OS > Debian Wheezy (Testing)
Window Manager > Openbox 3.5.0
Kernel > 3.6.0-6 amd64
Ob-Theme > Gray Flat (modified)
Conky > Default (modified)
Taskbar / Panel > tint2
Icon Theme > Faenza-Dark-Crunchbang
Font > Liberation Sans
Wallpaper > http://deviantart.com

LMDE-Xfce with Mint repros disabled and Repros set completely to Debian Testing

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:06 pm
by bu99zy
Nice desktop Vrkalak :D
zerozero wrote:all the rest is gorgeous :D but those widgets :shock: i want!
Sure Zerozero, here you go Widget Download

Instructions are on the download page.

Re: All Desktop Screenshots - February 2013

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:09 pm
by zerozero
bu99zy wrote:Instructions are on the download page.
time to play karamba then :lol: tks much 8)