Subj : Re: Tastes Like Windows
To   : Barry Martin
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Sun Dec 01 2019 13:14:00

BARRY MARTIN wrote:
> Hi Ky!
> 

> OK, probably also explains why some grocery store house/generic brands
> look so close to the national brands they're emulating.  Did know
> numbers couldn't be patented/trademarked/something: "Pentium" came about
> because '586' was deemed not able to be protected.
> 
Yep. You can copy the general look, you just can't name it the same.


>   KM> I want it restful to the eye, which usually means not too ugly. I
>   KM> like how Openbox names the virtual desktops as Air, Earth, Fire,
>   KM> and Water, so I stole that, and keep meaning to find each its own
>   KM> appropriate wallpaper.
> 
> Plus you need to find the appropriate doo-wop music segments for the

Doo-wop??!! where'd THAT come from??

> various notifications.  (OK, so that might make more sense knowing
> Pandora was playing oldies, so the group Earth Wind and Fire came to
> mind.  ...Plus that group isn't 'doo-wop'....)

<runs away screaming>

I had some funny system sounds on my Win95 setup... "No No No yer doin' 
it all wrong!" for errors, "Where's the Kaboom?" for... forget what I 
had that set for... and breaking glass for shutdown (that one came with 
WordPerfect 6 for DOS!)

> 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

Yeah, especially with today's flat featureless default icons. For 
wallpaper, I don't want too bright but not utterly boring either.  I've 
filched some nice shots off the MT.gov site, and a couple from APOD. KDE 
Themes Store has some good ones, tho they're brighter on my screen than 
in the store.

Unfortunately Oxygen is now deprecated so there went some of the last 
colorful, easy-to-ID icons.

> '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.
> 
<goes off, finds images> Some nice stuff. Wish the star one didn't have 
the white thing so bright in the middle, tho... hard on the eyes and the 
monitor.
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