Make Gnome look like OSX

[Noema]

Just Stumbled Upon this; figured I might share since loads of people are always asking how to make their desktops more OSXish.

Haven't tried it out myself, but now I have something to keep me busy on the weekend

 

[n0cmonkey]

I find it easier to just use a Mac when I want that Aqua touch.

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I find it easier to just use a Mac when I want that Aqua touch.

Oh, definitely.

This is just for giggles

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I find it easier to just use a Mac when I want that Aqua touch.

But then you'd actually have to buy a Mac.

<=== Hates using his wife's Mac

 

[tatteredpotato]

Lol, I don't want to pay the $500 or so premium for Aqua.

 

[sourceninja]

I think it is a cool article. I wouldn't want my linux box to look like a mac though. I like it looking like a linux box.

 

[tatteredpotato]

The Avant Window Navigator is a good find, I've been using the gDesklet launcher which was OK, but this one is much better because it serves as a launcher as a task bar.

 

[drag]

Sounds good.

I've always abhored OS X's dock. It's pretty and the notifications that it provides are nice, but it just makes the bottom (or left or right) inch or so of my screen unusuable. When using some types of applications it just ends up getting in the way irregardless of how you end up arranging it.

Although I expect by now most application designers for OS X have gotten used to having nothing usefull at the bottom of their windows that would be obscured by the dock.

But if I could get notification animations and such and use that thing as a replacement or addition for gnome-panel then that would be interesting.

 

[Nothinman]

So where are the articles on making OS X look like Gnome?

 

[drag]

http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx

?

 

[Nothinman]

Hardly, all that does is let you use GTK+ widgets in OS X but the system still looks like OS X.

 

[Noema]

Now we just need a hack to make OSX look like Windows 9x.

I bet that'd be real popular.

 

[drag]

I was being specious.

But here you go:
http://interfacelift.com/themes-mac/details.php?id=176

It's designed to copy the 'human' Ubuntu theme.

I think you may be able to go a bit further to emulate the Gnome interface, but probably not much. It seems that OS X is very restrictive on the sort of things you can do to the UI.

 

[tatteredpotato]

Thats what I love about Linux, you can pretty much make it look like whatever you want it to..... and for FREE!!!

Has anyone figured out how to change Ubuntu's boot screen? I was looking around and couldn't find any good how-to's.

 

[drag]

Which boot screen?

Grub background?
http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/

(Gnome is good for making the splash images)

For the splash screen you have 'splashy', which I think is what Ubuntu uses. I am not sure. I've done grub before, but I prefer to not have a splash screen to obscure the boot up messages.
http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/doku.php

 

[Nothinman]

It's designed to copy the 'human' Ubuntu theme.

It also requires a $20 program in order to work because Apple won't let you theme their crap out of the box which was my main point.

 

[drag]

And here I was thinking that you were being sarcastic because default gnome stuff is pretty fugly.