Subj : Re: Tastes Like Windows To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Mon May 25 2020 21:06:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > 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. Woah... whereas with whatever one is in PCLOS nowadays, I can barely see the difference. Turned it off. > 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. Is that with Gnome? In that case, no idea and I will now run away screaming. > > 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. I've noticed that how well something works is more or less inversely proportional to how "modern" the look is. :( "Modern" flat icons don't require anywhere near the meticulous design, since they don't have to look 3D and such. Seems to go along with general lack of polish. > > 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! Um.. you could move it... wait, Ubuntu. You can't move it. :P > .. Bad Day: Your pet rock snaps at you. Dropped it on my foot. þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .