Subj : Tastes Like Windows
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Mon Dec 02 2019 10:14:00


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.
 >
 KM> Yep. You can copy the general look, you just can't name it the
 KM> same.

And that happens all the time: in fashion it's called a knockoff.  (Look
at the deal I got on this 'Rollex' watch!)  Can't think of a computer 
hardware or software example right now but they're out there.


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

"Earth Wind and Fire", the oldies group....

 > 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'....)
 KM> <runs away screaming>
 
You're practicing your Grunge genre?!  (There is probably a better music
style to match, I just don't know what it is.)


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

Haha, and 'wow!' on the last one!  I vaguely recall some relatively 
advanced for the time audio and video options back when I was using
WordPerfect.  Didn't translate to hard copy so I didn't get into them.


 > 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 
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> 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).


 > '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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