I’ve been avoiding KDE4 for a while. But yesterday I threw KDE4 onto my laptop, because it runs Kubuntu and I don’t really care if my laptop breaks.
When I first tried installing it, I accidentally got KDE 4.0 somehow. That version was massively incomplete. After I upgraded to 4.1 it was very […]

I haven’t done much with my GUI for a good long while. I’ve been more focused on making it functional rather than pretty. I decided to see what I’ve been missing the the realm of KDE theming. Apparently I’ve been missing a lot. This Domino theme is on par with anything […]

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.

Click for full-size version. In the first shot you can see the “wave” effect in progress that occurs any time a window is unmapped; the window sort of waves and dissolves. Beryl’s “Animations” plugin lets you specify animations for mapping, unmapping, focusing, and min/maxing windows. There are some nice effects too, like […]

A new screenshot:

This is KDE/Xgl/Compiz with a Milkish sort of cgwd theme. Just enough transparency to make things interesting. Of course Compiz is best when you see it in action.
The wallpaper from Interfacelift. Such a nice wallpaper.