A few short years ago the majority of apps I used were GTK2 apps. I alternated between Gnome and/or XFCE4 regularly. Compiz and Beryl came out and they were all gconf’d and whatnot so it was more Gnome. There was Gaim, Firefox, I think Thunar for file management, Gvim, GIMP, and so […]

I previously prattled on about what the right abstraction should be for an icon theme. I said a hierarchy of subclasses would work.
I was very wrong. It didn’t work at all. For example I tried to write a == method for my Icon class. With the class structure I was using […]

I scrapped the throw-away version of the KDE Gnome theme converter script which I started many months ago, and started over. I’m trying to do it “right” this time.
It looks like the same index.theme files (if properly written) can be read by Gnome and KDE both, which is nice. I […]

I bounce back and forth from Gnome to KDE very regularly; I’m not really the kind of person who views this as a religious argument. What’s the point of having so much delicious choice in Linux if you don’t take advantage? Over the years I’ve given lenghty tries to openbox, fluxbox, xfce4, and […]

Haven’t posted one in a while. Gnome + Beryl, Buuf icons, MurrinaNeoGraphite GTK theme. I caught a window in mid-closing-animation, but I thought it looked neat so I left it.

I tried out this new xeffects overlay. Apparently it comes with some patched kdelibs ebuilds. These things cause massive system breakage for me. Trying to start X and KDE fails with some kind of fatal IO error code 104. This is such a hard bug to figure out. It leaves […]

Today I figured out how to get GTK engines to work on my amd64 machine when using programs like mozilla-firefox-bin which are pre-compiled for x86. By “figured out” of course I mean “read some ebuilds someone else wrote and then modified them to work for themes of my choosing”.
Basically you have to […]

I’ve been working on that script to convert Gnome icon themes to KDE icon themes. My first goal is to get Buuf to work.
I came up with a way of doing this. I downloaded the Tango icon theme. To install Tango you have to actually ./configure && make && make install it. […]

I checked my /var/log/messages recently and it turns out my SSH server on my home machine is being hammered with login attempts. I suppose that’s pretty common and it’s probably just a bunch of bots. I carefully grepped through my logs and none of the login attempts were successful (so far as I […]

I really like the buuf icon theme. But it only exists for Gnome. I want a version for KDE.
A post made by someone on KDE-Apps says:
It is very easy to convert GNOME icon theme to KDE icon theme, because it’s the same format ;).
Just edit index.theme and change any Statu to Actions, Places […]