Why is this like... Kind of ok looking? Is it just the old school look causing nostalgia? Surely right? I can't actually be thinking that's an okay color scheme
Great contrast at least.... Not super harsh like the standard light themes
Actually doesn't do the thing for me. I know the optical illusion you're going for but this color scheme doesn't trigger it in my brain for some reason. I kind of hate that lmao
it's not even the brain that does it, it's the color receptors getting tired because of the bright colors and when you look at something white it seems less red, and thus blue
maybe your monitor isn't very bright, or maybe because of the yellow it lets the color receptors rest for long enough to keep working properly
Yup and then I have a startup script that asks me if I'd like a GUI. Saved me setting up a display manager and it's basically the same amount of effort when logging in.
Yeah, that. Opaque means no transparency. Easier to read/work, or see a picture/video without background stuff mixing in with it. But for my non-focused windows, I'm not actively working on those, so rice it up, transparency all the way! (but still add blur to those, just so I can read them if I need to....)
In school I had a physics teacher who thought it was a good idea one day to use whiteboard markers on the glass windows instead of the whiteboard. I didn't learn anything that lesson.
so that it looks like you messed up the tiling somehow
I wish more tiling developers understood this. Gaps between windows looks broken. I don't mind it being an option, but to me it's such a weird choice for the default.
Luckily most gui toolkits have a way of disabling CSD. For gtk/libadwaita I recommend something like Gradience to generate a theme with corners of your liking.
Effects aside compiz was just gorgeous, every time i go looking for window decorations on pling it always seems like the pretty ones were made for just compiz
I will spend an entire weekend ricing my desktop in just the right way.
Then I'll notice that one of my main apps doesn't adhere to the theming i've designed, or that will completely break my theming because , or If I change my wallpaper it will make my entire theme look like shit, or that my cool theme makes font unreadable on one app because it renders shit weird, or that I completely overlooked this one aspect of my workflow that my cool design fucks with.
Then I'll just say fuck it and go back to using standard Gnome.
There's an extension that lets me close and open windows with the Matrix Code Rain so I can pretend I'm cool n shit.
Every few years I get the customization bug and trick out my desktop. Then things start breaking down slowly. Then I get frustrated and reinstall vanilla gnome, swear off customization forever, and feel better.
For gaming its Plasma.
Knowing the default DE's idiosyncrasies also helps with work -- I'm never surprised when I reinstall/install a new machine. Same goes for aliases. No for me, knowing the commands themselves, however cumbersome or verbose, helps me better deal with freshly installed machines.
Same here, improved imprived improved.
I have been looking to switch to sway and experimented with qtile (... Wayland is the future yo).
One thing that stops from moving is feh. I know wayland has it's own lightweight, image viewer, background setter. But feh is all in one.
The closest thing is imv, but I cant get it to render raw images.
(.. i am aware feh does work in wayland using xwayland but not natively.)
I personally do like all the eye candy, especially animations and round borders, but sometimes i do enjoy using compositors without any of that just as a change of pace. I also really like river for example.
Hotdog theme
Better
This was peak peakness. The rest of history is a footnote.
Why is this like... Kind of ok looking? Is it just the old school look causing nostalgia? Surely right? I can't actually be thinking that's an okay color scheme
Great contrast at least.... Not super harsh like the standard light themes
put this image on a big monitor and stare at it for 30 seconds, then look anywhere else
70 inch HDR TV you say?
Actually doesn't do the thing for me. I know the optical illusion you're going for but this color scheme doesn't trigger it in my brain for some reason. I kind of hate that lmao
woah what
it's not even the brain that does it, it's the color receptors getting tired because of the bright colors and when you look at something white it seems less red, and thus blue
maybe your monitor isn't very bright, or maybe because of the yellow it lets the color receptors rest for long enough to keep working properly
What have we fucking done. All this global warming bullshit just to get rid of this!?
Yeah. If the whole heating the planet to exterminate all humans gets revealed to be an alien attack on us, I'll be angry.
But if the aliens simply share a screenshot of Hotdog desktop theme, in explanation of their actions... I'll probably just nod.
Ja, hallo, kann ich Ihnen helfen?
Transparent Windows are like scifi where they print stuff on see through foil. How the fuck is anybody even able to read this?
That's why you want to add blur. I also don't understand unblurred transparent terminals.
booooring
I just boot straight into the terminal. No desktop, just the void staring at me full of possibilities.
Yup and then I have a startup script that asks me if I'd like a GUI. Saved me setting up a display manager and it's basically the same amount of effort when logging in.
To read thru documentation.
I have my focused window opaque, the rest transparent+blur.
What's the difference between opaque and transparent+blur?
The difference between a wall and frosted glass.
Yeah, that. Opaque means no transparency. Easier to read/work, or see a picture/video without background stuff mixing in with it. But for my non-focused windows, I'm not actively working on those, so rice it up, transparency all the way! (but still add blur to those, just so I can read them if I need to....)
Aesthetics
opaque is not transparent and has no blur
transparent+blur has transparency and no blur
hope i helped
Hi I might be your worst nightmare and this comment explains how I do it
I'm not sure why I prefer this, but I really like the "darkened background" rather than "blurred background" effect
Very simple actually: don't use 100% transparency.
Just use something like 80-90% opaque (10-20% transparent) and use the background color as black so it just dims whatever us behind it.
You can have both function and form.
Additionally use Kawase-Blur with a lot of blurring, and this is a non-issue.
In school I had a physics teacher who thought it was a good idea one day to use whiteboard markers on the glass windows instead of the whiteboard. I didn't learn anything that lesson.
what
That’s the neat part. You don’t.
Simple: only the out of focus apps have opacity set to 85-90%, the focused app is always 100%. Easy.
nowadays the question is not how you turn on rounded corners, but how you turn them off
Same applies to gaps
I was surprised to learn that
I wish more tiling developers understood this. Gaps between windows looks broken. I don't mind it being an option, but to me it's such a weird choice for the default.
plus it's literally unused screen space
I suppose you're mainly concerned about LibAdwaita-Apps?
I'm mainly concerned about KDE, android, windows 11, and web shit.
but yeah now that you say, gtk things too
Luckily most gui toolkits have a way of disabling CSD. For gtk/libadwaita I recommend something like Gradience to generate a theme with corners of your liking.
But I want to keep Christopher Street Day :(
CSD stands for Client Side (window) Decorations in this case.
I stumbled over Gradience just yesterday but I tought it was archived sometime last year, is it still working accordingly?
Compiz is Xorg exclusive
Yes.
Effects aside compiz was just gorgeous, every time i go looking for window decorations on pling it always seems like the pretty ones were made for just compiz
I will spend an entire weekend ricing my desktop in just the right way.
Then I'll notice that one of my main apps doesn't adhere to the theming i've designed, or that will completely break my theming because , or If I change my wallpaper it will make my entire theme look like shit, or that my cool theme makes font unreadable on one app because it renders shit weird, or that I completely overlooked this one aspect of my workflow that my cool design fucks with.
Then I'll just say fuck it and go back to using standard Gnome.
There's an extension that lets me close and open windows with the Matrix Code Rain so I can pretend I'm cool n shit.
Awesome. Looking into that just got added to my weekend plans. Thanks!
The extension is called Burn-My-Windows and I always look forward to it when booting into GNOME because it feels so ✨fancy✨
Sweet. Thank you.
Do the windows wobble?
Unfortunately not :/ But I do have rainbow-gradient window borders.
I feel seen. And belittled. But mostly seen.
Every few years I get the customization bug and trick out my desktop. Then things start breaking down slowly. Then I get frustrated and reinstall vanilla gnome, swear off customization forever, and feel better.
For gaming its Plasma.
Knowing the default DE's idiosyncrasies also helps with work -- I'm never surprised when I reinstall/install a new machine. Same goes for aliases. No for me, knowing the commands themselves, however cumbersome or verbose, helps me better deal with freshly installed machines.
Say what you wanna say about tiling wms, but there are good tiling wms like niri, paperwm, hyprland(I love it).
Sway not mentioned?
Hyprland is the future old man
i3wm has been my daily driver for the past 4 years. I just flow on it
Same here, improved imprived improved. I have been looking to switch to sway and experimented with qtile (... Wayland is the future yo). One thing that stops from moving is feh. I know wayland has it's own lightweight, image viewer, background setter. But feh is all in one. The closest thing is imv, but I cant get it to render raw images. (.. i am aware feh does work in wayland using xwayland but not natively.)
KDE, with breeze and a custom colour scheme. I find it less likely to lead to usability issues.
I personally do like all the eye candy, especially animations and round borders, but sometimes i do enjoy using compositors without any of that just as a change of pace. I also really like river for example.
I just watched a video about a what if situation of this exact same spongebob scene last night lol
https://youtu.be/s2699HTY-g8