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## Refracta appearances and themes

Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:06 am

Not really general nonsense but fits best here.. two things to brighten up the general appearance of a Refracta (or other Debian) install. They might even work!
Grub2 "gfx" theme: http://exegnulinux.net/refracta/experim ... cta.tar.gz
xquisite-icon-theme: http://exegnulinux.net/refracta/experim ... .1_all.deb
I found the icons at http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/X ... tent=69735 and deb-packaged them.
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## Re: Refracta appearances and themes

Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:25 am

My refracta doesn't need 'brightening up'. PLEASE make these optional - not default - if that's what you were suggesting.
I already have the galaxy wallpaper on grub2. Tweaked a configuration somewhere.
And the icons are too frilly and shiny for my taste. For those with different aesthetic sense . . . go for it!!
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## Re: Refracta appearances and themes

Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:10 pm

> PLEASE make these optional

I don't make decisions on future defaults anyway.. these are only (if you like them) for optional use on an existing installation and are totally "unofficial".
My apologies if I appeared to suggest otherwise, or that current Refracta defaults are other than good as they are.
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## Re: Refracta appearances and themes

Thu Jan 30, 2014 1:36 pm

My opinion:
It could look a bit more sexy.
I mainly speak of icons and gtk-engine though.
I for one got hard times to find them (and icons is even more hard for me).
fsmithred probably likes the look and feel (considers it sexy), else he would do it different.
But having options is always good. Let me look at the icon theme (for grub themes i barely care).
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## Re: Refracta appearances and themes

Thu Jan 30, 2014 2:20 pm

The icons look good, i like them. Thanks for offering them.
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## Re: Refracta appearances and themes

Thu Jan 30, 2014 2:39 pm

There's tons of stuff at xfcelook.org but this icon theme was the best I found and is not heavy-duty (I don't like bloat)
You can do a lot more with grub boot menu appearance than that just set a splash screen. Available grub themes, apart from the ugly (IMO) default, number 0 in wheezy and 1 in sid but are not difficult to create.
Default appearances with no alternatives are extremely boring. Post here if you find or make any good ones!
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## Re: Refracta appearances and themes

Thu Jan 30, 2014 2:43 pm

Yeah, i know there is tons at xfce look (or gnome look).
That, the tons, is the problem.
It is tedious to go through them (and not like one after the other).
In the end it is always a bad compromise for me (i am simply tired of going on and pick one not outstanding ugly).
The best icon theme i found yet is LinuxLex (either in aptosid or it's twin distro).
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## Re: Refracta appearances and themes

Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:03 pm

LinuxLex is also good. It's installable in wheezy but is heavier (40MB) than xquisite (12MB).
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## Re: Refracta appearances and themes

Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:31 pm

> It is tedious to go through them (and not like one after the other)

even more TEDIOUS: checking/comparing mouse cursor iconsets
In case I haven't previously suggested this for Refracta:
ship the distro with root's home populated with a config specifying a different mouse cursor set, different DE theme/wallpaper
different from the config provided etc/skel for non-root user accounts.
My peeve with "bloaty" icon themes is that they (the theme creators) oh-so-creatively presume to redefine/undermine
the intent (and or "brand recognition") of each program author.
As an invented example, What is served (other than iconset creator ego stroking) by taking away spaceFM's "shiny cube" icon
and replacing it with a friggin "looks sorta like a parrot, with palm trees as legs, smoking a joint" icon?!?
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