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[panzerpuppy]

It still needs more tweaking. The ROX dir icons,window theme,cursors and tooltip colors are next on the list.
I'll post another screenshot soon

[Fossil]

panzerpuppy,
Please, before you consider posting another screenshot, resize the 2048x1536 'tubby' one (no pun intended!) you have already placed on the forum to a reasonable size - the accepted x600 pixels. For people using small screens and low resolutions, the overall size is enormous.
Thanks.

[panzerpuppy]

[ttuuxxx]

How about adding some really excellent xp/vista icons to the mix, around ummmmm 200 Of them around 80MB,
http://rapidshare.com/files/166486729/Rhor.zip

ttuuxxx

[droope]

Wow, that'd be nice. Also, rox's gotta go. A 2 bar filer manager would be it, that supports regular Control+c control v, and that when you look for, for example example.jpg you can type "ex" and the file will appear selected.

[steve_s]

[steve_s]

[ecomoney]

These are some special program launchers that Ive taken from ecopup that I saw by Guestoo some time ago. They allow double or single clicking to launch, but if the user double clicks they will still only get one instance of the application. It also shows a (very poor) splash screen for the application. They also show a tooltip when hovered over.

Installing the .pet puts them in /root/my-roxapps. Go in there and right click any of the icons and select "look inside", and this will reveal the goodies within. It should be obvious what everything does.

ecopup-launchers.pet

Ive found them very handy for people who are xp-trained in our cybercafe and for our commercial customers in the area.

P.S.

I dont suppose you guys have seen the new JWM 2.0 beta? It has transparency on the toolbars for that vista in under 100mb look


fullscreen

[synth]

WinPup 7:


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[steve_s]

Synth: nice!

[steve_s]

Has anyone checked out xfe? I saw ttuuxxx's thread about it...talk about a windows like file manager...I've attached a screenshot on mine and I'm not really looking for windows-like but it sure does resemble it...it's configurable, can have one or two or three panels, has different icon themes...I've at least included it on mine...

[steve_s]

Ok, I needed just a little more clarification/closure on this thread.

Of the almost 200 icewm themes I've seen, plus backgrounds, here are the ones that look (in my opinion) the most like the 3 basic Xp themes, blue, silver and olive.

Feel free to disagree, BUT SHOW YOUR WORK!

I am going to attach each of the pets for the icon theme (one I did earlier in this thread) and for each of the icewm themes (jwm just doesn't look as much like xp so icewm is the way to go with this project, even though I prefer jwm on my own system).

Finally I'll attach a tar.gz file (either this post or the next, depending on how the forum allows it) of all of this stuff together. You could just click on that, unpack it to a folder of your choosing then run the pet files from there (just click on 'em) and put the wallpapers in /usr/share/backgrounds (or just have the wallpaper selector pick 'em out of the folder that you created; or just add your own wallpaper).

Preferred themes/background for each:
Blue:
icewm-theme: xp-new
gtk-theme: clearlooks deepsky (included in 4.2.1)
wallpaper: bliss-royale

Silver:
icewm-theme: silver
gtk-theme: clearlooks quicksilver (included in 4.2.1)
wallpaper: uluru

Olive:
icewm-theme: WinXP-Olive
gtk-theme: clearlooks olive (included in 4.2.1)
wallpaper: parq

I've also noticed that the small menu icons in icewm don't want to change as readily for me in 4.2.1, but seem to be fine in jwm...that's the first I've noticed that. Anyone else have that issue?

Enjoy!

[steve_s]

As promised, here is a tar.gz file of all that stuff that I talked about on the last post...

[37fleetwood]

I just got done reading this thread through and have a few questions. I notice you are trying to get Jwm and Icewm to look like XP wouldn't it be much easier to start with something like NOP with Xfce4 which starts out looking XPish. with a very few tweaks Xfce will look very like what you want. ad the icons and wallpaper, change the start button, and voila! Xfce also has the advantage of the two paned file browser Thunar and the interactive control panel which though not XPish of itself will make sense to an XP user.
here is a link to an Xp theme at Xfce-look.org:
http://www.xfce-look.org/content/show.php/XPLuna?content=83797

[steve_s]