Subj : Re: Tastes Like Windows
To   : Barry Martin
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Fri May 22 2020 12:52:00

BARRY MARTIN wrote:
> Hi Ky!
> 
> You're practicing your Grunge genre?!  (There is probably a better music
> style to match, I just don't know what it is.)

For linux, that would be garage bands :D

>   > The thing I usually find wrong with desktop pictures is the icons tend
>   > to blend in with the picture.  XP's 'Bliss' is suitable bland yet
>   KM> Yeah, especially with today's flat featureless default icons. For
>   KM> wallpaper, I don't want too bright but not utterly boring either.
>   KM>  I've filched some nice shots off the MT.gov site, and a couple
>   KM> from APOD. KDE Themes Store has some good ones, tho they're
>   KM> brighter on my screen than in the store.
> 
> Probably has something to do with you educating them.  ...Oh, a
> different meaning of 'brighter'!  <g>   With Ubuntu 16.04 I used a

Some of 'em are definitely dim. <g>

> dark-dark red and black pattern on the desktop computer, my laptop, and
> something else -- all three displayed with differing brigtnesses /
> contrasts.  I'd assume partially simply due to differences in the
> brightness and contrast settings, but there was something more.

Could be the monitor profile used by the creator. Useful to that person, 
but won't look right to anyone else.

>   KM> Unfortunately Oxygen is now deprecated so there went some of the
>   KM> last colorful, easy-to-ID icons.
> 
> I presume you tried to copy them over to a new system?  May have to
> convert the format (VLC can convert many video formats, haven't tried
> 'single frame' formats).

I haven't figured out where linux keeps its icons, let alone how to 
manipulate 'em... but I get the impression the main icon file is 
monolithic, and I've heard contains over 6,000 icons. And I can tell you 
from experience, if you use a theme that's deprecated, you'll have blank 
spaces where you expected to see an icon. Fortunately the one I ended up 
using is only missing one icon, for a fairly new utility. I can browse 
files and change icons for the desktop or taskbar, but hell if I can 
figure out how to do that for system tray... those seem to use the 
monolithic icon doohickey.

I loathe the flat pale 'modern' icons; I want them to have color and 
texture.


>   > 'contrasty' to the icons; Ubuntu 18.04's Bionic Beaver is also fine; for
>   > Ubuntu 16.04 I used a dark-almost-black red Desktop display from
>   > NoobsLab.com, from their 'Black Wallpapers'' collection.
>   KM> <goes off, finds images> Some nice stuff. Wish the star one
>   KM> didn't have the white thing so bright in the middle, tho... hard
>   KM> on the eyes and the monitor.
>   
> Yes: some were "quite nice except for".
>

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