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H_TeXMeX_H:
I agree GNOME and KDE are quite ugly (even with different themes) ... my recommendation: fluxbox
I've recently decided to try out nearly every window manager available for Linux, including: GNOME, KDE, Fluxbox, Blackbox, Afterstep, IceWM, Openbox, WM, XFCE
I say fluxbox is the best ... the ugliest being GNOME, KDE, XFCE, IceWM
Now .... there are usually downsides to having transparency effects, like increased resource usage ... it doesn't seem to be the case with fluxbox ... can't say the same thing for Vi$ta. And Vi$ta is far less customizable, stable, useful. I switched away from GNOME mostly cuz nautilus kept crashing and GNOME in general kept not responding (keyboard not responding), which never happened on KDE BTW and neither on fluxbox.
Now whether Vi$ta is a rip-off of OS X ... that's almost guarranteed, but of course there are ingnorant people out there who refuse to take into account any evidence whatsoever in making a case for this ...
inane:
Fluxbox is NOT pretty... it's utilitarian. The whole point of it is to get away from the looks.
toadlife:
--- Quote from: inane ---Fluxbox is NOT pretty... it's utilitarian. The whole point of it is to get away from the looks.
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Actually I would agree with TeXMeX. Fluxbox is the nicest looking desktop environment I've seen for unix. What fluxbox isn't, is very functional. Functionality is what make a desktop/windows manager slow.
toadlife:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---GTK+ 1 was pretty ugly. But thankfully I didn't have to wait until 2006 for GTK+ 2 (or Xgl and all that crack).
EDIT: and FFS XP's luna fucking thing is the ugliest since I dunno when. Why are people given that in 2006?
--- End quote ---
luna is getting pretty old. That's why I use Royale in XP now. It's not earth shattering, but I think it's nicer than Luna.
WMD:
Royale is the theme for XP Media Center. And it's much better than Luna, that's for sure.
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