XP theme for jwm (1.0.5 only)
- bombayrockers
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XP theme for jwm (1.0.5 only)
the original theme that came with jwm in puppy 1.0.5 is quite shabby. so i modified it to look much more like xp.
download the jwm-puppy-xp.pup. install it. it will overwrite the previous files for the jwm xp theme. click on ok when it ask to overwrite files.
use the jwm theme switcher to select jwm-puppy-xp theme
download the jwm-puppy-xp.pup. install it. it will overwrite the previous files for the jwm xp theme. click on ok when it ask to overwrite files.
use the jwm theme switcher to select jwm-puppy-xp theme
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bombayroclers, thanks for the jwm-puppy-xp.pup.
I like the background, but I found it somewhat dark and unfocused so I took the liberty of sharpening it a little and adjusting the image's gamma value to lighten it up a bit. I'm attaching the modified image as litrix4.jpg. Use whichever image you like best
BTW, is the original high resolution image available?
EDIT: Image deleted as I managed to make an improved but lean (only 50KB at 1024x768 ) image from Barry's original. The image (litrix_1024x768.jpg) is further down in the thread.
I like the background, but I found it somewhat dark and unfocused so I took the liberty of sharpening it a little and adjusting the image's gamma value to lighten it up a bit. I'm attaching the modified image as litrix4.jpg. Use whichever image you like best
BTW, is the original high resolution image available?
EDIT: Image deleted as I managed to make an improved but lean (only 50KB at 1024x768 ) image from Barry's original. The image (litrix_1024x768.jpg) is further down in the thread.
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- BarryK
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The original litrix.jpg was about 160K, I knocked it down to under 40K,
so it is a bit blurred.
Original attached.
so it is a bit blurred.
Original attached.
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Thanks, Barry!BarryK wrote:The original litrix.jpg was about 160K, I knocked it down to under 40K,
so it is a bit blurred.
Original attached.
It will be interesting to see if I can reduce and optimize the original to around 40-50K while keeping the quality high
EDIT: I have now modified the original - I think this image is a good compromise between size & quality.
To use as wallpaper, right-click on image and choose 'Save Image As...' to download it. Then copy image to /root/.jwm/themes/. Open Start -> Control Panel -> Desktop background image and you can choose the new image from the list.
Enjoy
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- Lobster
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This is one of the results of over compression. It is possible that some people do not get this blockiness (it seems different on some monitors, screens resolutions, graphic chips or some such variable) The way to overcome might be to make the sky one shade but allow the clouds. I remember reporting blockiness in images to someone providing a daily pic
- they said there was no blockiness. On a different computer (forget what made the difference) the blockiness was not apparant.
On my screen it is very blocky
- Alucard_the_dex
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- Alucard_the_dex
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I wanted to get the file size down to under 50KB so this is the result. I think the problem lies in the large number of subtle color changes in the sky which produce blocking when compressed too hard.BarryK wrote:pakt,
that looks good!
...is it possible to get rid of the "building blocks" in the sky?
I'll be happy to give it another shot, but it will probably mean a somewhat larger file. What limit do you want to put on the file size?
I propose a third variant to XP theme
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Sorry, broken english above :-)
After twisting and turning the original litrix image any number of times, I managed to get this result. It is within the 50KB limit I set (in fact it is exactly 50KB ) and has the least number of compression artifacts I could get within that file size.BarryK wrote:pakt,
that looks good!
...is it possible to get rid of the "building blocks" in the sky?
If a better quality image is desired (less than or equal to 50KB in size), we should try to find a similar image but with fewer nuances of color. The sky in this image shifts from dark blue to light blue making compression distortion especially noticeable.
Is the result good enough or should we look for another image?
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Thanks for the praise, Alienx . I'm just sorry I couldn't make the image a little sharper, but that would have made the file size a lot bigger.Alienx wrote:WONDERFUL work, pakt !
can you teach us how to do it ?
some guidelines ?
please !!!!!
I am definitly not an expert on image manipulation, and this is the first time I used the Gimp, so it took some experimentation to figure out how to do things. It turned out that I got the best result by simple means. This is what I ended up doing.
After saving Barry's original litrix image to harddisk and starting The Gimp with the saved image:
- From menu: 'Image' -> 'Scale Image...' and under 'Quality', set 'Interpolation' to 'Cubic (Best)'. Then changed the image from 1024x768 to 800x600 and clicked 'Scale'.
- From menu: 'Tools' -> 'Color Tools' -> 'Levels' changed Gamma from 1.00 to 1.10 then clicked 'OK'. (I have found that increasing Gamma instead of increasing brightness and/or lowering contrast to lighten an image often gives better results.)
- From menu: 'File' -> 'Save as...' -> 'litrix_lean.jpg'. Clicked 'Save' and the 'Save as JPEG' window popped up (here I could set the JPEG image 'quality', ie, how much of the image detail to keep - lower 'Quality' = less detail = more distortion).
- Clicked 'Show Preview in image window' then 'Advanced Options'. Here I could see what the 'File size' would be when changing 'Quality' (default=85) while at the same time seeing the effect of the Quality setting on the image. I found that by setting Quality to 68, I could get the File size down to 50.0 kB without too much distortion. Clicked on 'OK' - that's it