Subj : Tastes Like Windows To : Ky Moffet From : Barry Martin Date : Sat May 23 2020 07:24:00 Hi Ky! > > 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'! With Ubuntu 16.04 I used a KM> Some of 'em are definitely dim. Someone has to anchor that Bell Curve! > 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. KM> Could be the monitor profile used by the creator. Useful to that KM> person, but won't look right to anyone else. That's a possibility. I have noticed when my monitor goes into Night Mode I can see the reds a lot better - some almost too much. > 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). KM> I haven't figured out where linux keeps its icons, let alone how KM> to manipulate 'em... but I get the impression the main icon file KM> is monolithic, and I've heard contains over 6,000 icons. And I KM> can tell you from experience, if you use a theme that's KM> deprecated, you'll have blank spaces where you expected to see an KM> icon. Fortunately the one I ended up using is only missing one KM> icon, for a fairly new utility. I can browse files and change KM> icons for the desktop or taskbar, but hell if I can figure out KM> how to do that for system tray... those seem to use the KM> monolithic icon doohickey. Well I'll admit to never having tried to change an icon in Linux. The answer is probably buried somewhere in the Google Hits; the only problem I've had with icons is when the Virtual XP machine is on the Task Bar icon isn't always presented: you white/gray-edged box with a slashed red circle inside. And then suddenly the correct icon is there - seems to appears when it feels like it. KM> I loathe the flat pale 'modern' icons; I want them to have color KM> and texture. Y'want artwork or a programme that works?! Do agree with you: I don't know how an icon or any other graphic is created but a litle bit of work to the details usually implies or at least give a better feeling of the user. > > '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> 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". KM> THE PROBLEM!! Only put dark icons on the bright white thing! Problem solved! ....Except now the icon I use the most is in the middle of the screen, covered up by what I'm working on! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Bad Day: Your pet rock snaps at you. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .