(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

nic2109 wrote:How difficult/impossible would it be to develop an animated 3-D Dock - as in MacOS X 10.5 (aka "Leopard")? To my eyes it is just about the coolest thing out there.

There is already a dock - icedock - available for IceWM. It accepts dockable apps like wmpower, wmfishtime, wmweather, wmmix, etc. I don't know whether it can be made to look "3-D" and I don't know what the MacOS X dock looks like, so I can't comment on that.

Hope that helps.

As a compliment to the previous WinXP themes I have supplied, here is the final theme in the set - WinXP Royale Media Center edition. It is a WhoDo original created from scratch, so you won't find it anywhere else.

I have included the Lazy Days wallpaper in the dotpet for the complete effect. Those trying to build machines for Windows refugees should find this one very enticing. Enjoy!

WhoDo wrote:I don't know whether it can be made to look "3-D" and I don't know what the MacOS X dock looks like, so I can't comment on that.

Thanks for the response. To give an idea of what I'm on about here's a screenshot from Apple's website. I don't have access to a Mac with Leopard on it so cannot show anything personal. The middle of the 3 PCs shows what I mean best, though the other 2 also give an impression.

What they call the "Dock" is like the icedock you refer to, but also serves as the "launcher" for your choice of applications. Each new version of MacOS has made it prettier and the latest has a 3-D look where the icons appear to sit up on a flat tray. And those that are a menu spring up in a string of icons when the mouse pointer hovers over it. You can just about make it out from the screenshot image.

My wish/request would be two-fold: firstly the look of the tray of icons; and secondly (icing on cake this), the way the menus expand.

Thanks for listening.

My wish/request would be two-fold: firstly the look of the tray of icons; and secondly (icing on cake this), the way the menus expand

Now that looks like Wbar. really what I think you want is lg3d I think there was a package made for it but can't seem to find it here is some discussion about it

is it possible to have transparent tool bar or menu or window frames in icewm?

magerlab wrote:is it possible to have transparent tool bar or menu or window frames in icewm?

Transparent title bar, yes, but not tool bar, menu or window frames. IceWM is not a rendering WM like KDE, Gnome, Xfce or Enlightenment.

WhoDo wrote:

Transparent title bar, yes, but not tool bar, menu or window frames. IceWM is not a rendering WM like KDE, Gnome, Xfce or Enlightenment.

Don't forget Fluxbox !

Here is a new theme called GreenVista. It is shown here with ModernTimes Gtk2 theme and Abstract background. Unfortunately if you want it you'll have to wait for EZpup-4.0 (coming soon, I hope).

Enjoy!

Hello everyone,
As TEENpup2008 is now out and because no one has added any themes for a while, here are the icewm themes used in TEENpup2008 for those who might want to use them but don't want to download TEENpup.
They have been customized for TEENpup and carry a common menu bar theme.
OK to install them just unzip the theme tar.gz and copy them into ~/.icewm/themes and they'll be ready to use from the menu. For those new to puppy, remember you have to unhide the hidden files in ROX (the eye at the top) to see the .icewm folder.

Hi all,

I am new to Linux and am just trying to find my way around. I would like to customise my install of Puppy with one of the themes I have seen here, but am not sure where to start.

If I understand correctly I firstly need to install IceWM but how do I do that?

Any help or links to How To guides would be much appriecated.

tlucas wrote: I would like to customise my install of Puppy with one of the themes I have seen here, but am not sure where to start.

If I understand correctly I firstly need to install IceWM but how do I do that?

Search the forum for EZpup and download that. It is a one-step install. You simply click on the EZpup dotpet file and it will self-install IceWM, themes, mouse cursors, the lot.

Check out the EZpup Help page on the wiki for more details.

Hope that helps.

Just wanted to say you themers do a great work that really adds value.

Having a few excellent themes saves a great amount of time digging a load of average stuff.

Blue-Velvet-Vista is a chance for me to move back away from the glassy look, while still keeping some of the classic ideas. Hope you like them.

The theme was originally based on Jan Engelhardt's <jengelh [at] gmx de> "IceVista", but has had so many changes it's hardly recognisable. Nevertheless, the title bar buttons remain Jan's (unretouched) work, and for those I'm very grateful because he does a such a great job!

Enjoy!

WOW WhoDo! That's an incredibly beautiful theme! Thanks for all your hard work and in the end when you're finished, for sharing said hard work with the rest of us incapable of making such.

I know that I sure do appreciate it. And you know others do as well mate!

Hmm... I like that frame/theme you've got around your GTK-Clock as well. Did you make that too?

Again: Thanks so much for sharing and enriching our lives!

Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

Eyes-Only wrote:Hmm... I like that frame/theme you've got around your GTK-Clock as well. Did you make that too?

Not guilty, Jimmi. That's not Gtk-Clock but a Gdesklets clock with multiple choices of face. Gdesklets is a rather HEAVY way to get desktop eye-candy, where Gtkbasic003 is much lighter but doesn't seem to have the variety.

If I had it to do over again, I'd probably go with Screenlets instead, but then that would need Python and a much more overweight Puppy. It's just that I like my local weather, analogue clock and a calendar on the desktop or I would do without all of them!

Wbar, OTOH, is the absolute best investment - right up there with Hotpup! Thanks to Dougal for those two gems!

Thanks for the info Warren as it's very much appreciated!

Regarding Wbar: On that I definitely have to agree with you as to it being a true "gem of gems"! I've tried several of these "iBar/iDock" look-a-likes (AWN and SimDock being two that come to mind right off) but nothing can compare to this Wbar. It's in a league and class by itself being so lite on resources, easy to configure with a text file, etc. Seems to run on just about everything and every desktop (even some the coder said it shouldn't).

I've too been enjoying that HotPup as well. That ranks right up there high in my book. I've always loved auto-mount and wished Puppy would do such (mainly because of how I have various caches, email, and backups all in one partition), and Hotpup permits me so many various options that I can auto-mount and forget it, or set various other settings and features. It's amazing!

Those have to be two of the best of the many great programmes I've discovered here over the past two years. I love it!

Take care Warren and thanks again for the theme!

Amicalement,

Eyes-Only/jimmi
"L'Peau-Rouge"

Eyes-Only wrote:Take care Warren and thanks again for the theme!

Oh, I haven't finished yet, Jimmi! Here is a "new" theme I think just might knock VistaBlack-V off its perch! It's called "Dark-Saphire".

Enjoy!

WhoDo wrote:

Eyes-Only wrote:Take care Warren and thanks again for the theme!

Oh, I haven't finished yet, Jimmi! Here is a "new" theme I think just might knock VistaBlack-V off its perch! It's called "Dark-Saphire".

Enjoy!

I like it just downloaded it
Do you use or need to use a modified icewm for this to work

what Icewm do you use can you link me please ?

that clear look on the console just makes my jaw drop got to have it

great work
link me please to what else I need to get it all up

P.S is it alright if I get lazy once and a while and let some one do all the work and I just sit back and enjoy
big_bass

big_bass wrote:I like it just downloaded it
Do you use or need to use a modified icewm for this to work

what Icewm do you use can you link me please ?

I'm using Icewm 1.2.34 but any of the later Icewm versions should work - 1.2.3x series. The cutdown Icewm that ttuuxxx created, or anything from EZpup 2.xx or 3.xx should be fine.

big_bass wrote:that clear look on the console just makes my jaw drop got to have it

That's mrxvt and it is available in Caneri or MU's repository lists.

big_bass wrote:great work
link me please to what else I need to get it all up

If you want the other stuff, the clock, the weather app and the calendar are Gdesklets packaged in dotpet by Wow (I think). Available from the forum.

The floating launch bar is Dougals' Wbar, also available from the forum.

Of course that's Dougal's Hotpup in the bottom left corner, too.

Background is from InterfaceLift web site. Don't remember what it's called.

big_bass wrote:P.S is it alright if I get lazy once and a while and let some one do all the work and I just sit back and enjoy

Of course. I do.

Ah Warren! Just what can I say here? Yet another eye-popper! It's brilliant mate! But hmm... "Take the places of VistaBlack V"? Personally, for me? That would be stretching it a bit.

For me, my all-time favourite would be "VistaBlack V" followed in dead-heat by the "Smooth Sapphire" when ALL the parts are together (meaning the wallpaper, etc.), then followed a very close third by "Breaker51" which I picked up God only knows where. A close 4th is "IceBuntu"---when used with the Human icons and my Ubuntu wallpapers as I've managed to make IceWM look like Gnome very closely with that.

By and large though I've been mainly sticking with Mint and another Linux I threw together myself based upon an .rpm system with a kernel by Texstar and in both these distros I've been doing my own desktops with bits n' pieces in their respective repos. Keeps me and my 4 wheeler out of the bars at night. LOL!

Thanks again for yet another truly beautiful work of art Warren! That's two I've got sitting here now in backup which means later I'll have to reboot and install them, eh?

Keep up the fabulous work Warren! For people like me who have to sit in front of a computer for 16 hours 7 days a week you make things truly exciting---and you of all people know that I mean that mate!

Amicalement,

jimmi
"L'Peau-Rouge"