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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I think i have both of those, (looks and optimum functionality) for a while now

https://i.postimg.cc/bskHhJR0/Screenshot-20260328-150016.png

^This color reminds me of a time when hhh did a similar one for #! I liked it then, and i'm glad i found a similar one for KDE.

Excellent! I'm in Zenwalk at the moment which looks pretty good for an XFce-based distro (dark theme, long bridge wallpaper, transparent terminals etc.), but lacks a bit in functionality compared to some of the other distros I know.

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Nili

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Excellent! I'm in Zenwalk at the moment which looks pretty good for an XFce-based distro (dark theme, long bridge wallpaper, transparent terminals etc.), but lacks a bit in functionality compared to some of the other distros I know.

I wish you could find what you're looking for. It took me some worth efforts to find something suitable for myself.

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I think i have both of those, (looks and optimum functionality) for a while now

https://i.postimg.cc/bskHhJR0/Screenshot-20260328-150016.png

^This color reminds me of a time when hhh did a similar one for #! I liked it then, and i'm glad i found a similar one for KDE.

Excellent! I'm in Zenwalk at the moment which looks pretty good for an XFce-based distro (dark theme, long bridge wallpaper, transparent terminals etc.), but lacks a bit in functionality compared to some of the other distros I know.

Not sure what #! theme that is reminiscent of, but thanks for the shoutout!

@Colonel, theming is easy, build from your foundation. What have you liked in distros in terms of function? Floating/tiling/menu system/launchers/panel/dock/widgets/resource usage, etc... anything but theming/desktop effects.

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Nili

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Not sure what #! theme that is reminiscent of, but thanks for the shoutout!.

I tried to find it through web.archive, If I'm not mistaken, it was Deb8.
I used it on my then setup, My current KDE colors looks very similar to Deb8 a few years ago.

No prob, i am really glad i find a grey theme, For years i used dark background with white text, but i had enough with it.

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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I think i have both of those, (looks and optimum functionality) for a while now

https://i.postimg.cc/bskHhJR0/Screenshot-20260328-150016.png

^This color reminds me of a time when hhh did a similar one for #! I liked it then, and i'm glad i found a similar one for KDE.

Excellent! I'm in Zenwalk at the moment which looks pretty good for an XFce-based distro (dark theme, long bridge wallpaper, transparent terminals etc.), but lacks a bit in functionality compared to some of the other distros I know.

Not sure what #! theme that is reminiscent of, but thanks for the shoutout!

@Colonel, theming is easy, build from your foundation. What have you liked in distros in terms of function? Floating/tiling/menu system/launchers/panel/dock/widgets/resource usage, etc... anything but theming/desktop effects.

Thanks for your post hhh. I'm about 80% of the way now towards getting a setup that both looks good and works optimally well for me; it's the final 20% that is proving difficult!

In reality, if I even get to 90% I'll be happy. I think looking for perfection in a setup is a trap; you never quite get there and you're walking towards a receding horizon.

hhh

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

^^, wow! I never thought of using webarchive to see scrots from now-defunct image hosting sites. Thanks for the blast from the past!

@Colonel, you're evading the question.

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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

This one?

"What have you liked in distros in terms of function? Floating/tiling/menu system/launchers/panel/dock/widgets/resource usage, etc... anything but theming/desktop effects."

Thanks for asking, but that's going to take a while to answer unfortunately, and I don't really feel up to that level of effort at the moment I'm afraid.

I will just say for now though that I like doing a lot of things from the keyboard, which is why I use DMenu amongst other menu programs, and use Midnight Commander for a lot of the file management tasks I do in Linux.

I don't want a Windows clone distro where you do everything by clicking with a mouse.

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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I use tiling mainly when I've got things to do that require two windows to be next to each other and taking up half of the screen each, for example when I have to copy a password from one window into a box in an adjacent one. Sometimes oit;s also good when you want a window to take up the entirety of your screen space with no (or almost no) borders.