Few more changes to my desktop....

It's been hard on me.... (there there now.... I mean very hard for me...;-)) to know that those mind blowing 3D effects and the compiz manager will not work on my hardware.....

So, since then, I had been wondering.... How to make my desktop look great and yet not use any 3D effects and still make it look as good as it can.

And I found the solution. As I have already provided one screenshot with gDesklets, you know what it is. But, then, I did not have the time to fully explore it. And now, I have come up with this....


The procedure to accomplish the act :-

1). My OS :- OpenSUSE 10.2
2). Desktop :- Gnome.

3). First, I shifted the default panel to top of the screen. Then, created new panel and filled it with icons and set it at the bottom.

4). Then I downloaded OS-X icon set and 'tish' theme from metacity from http://gnome-look.org and used them.

5). Next was, I removed all the icons from the desktop. The home, trash and volume were removed using G-Conf editor. Go to apps, nautilus and desktop and un-check appropriate boxes.

6). Then I installed gDesklets. And downloaded some desklets from http://gdesklets.zencomputer.ca/ and placed them on the desktop. The photo frame was downloaded from http://gnome-look.org . The apple icon in the top panel was downloaded from google images. And the background, I created in Gimp.

7). The wallpaper is from the website of Lauri at http://www.taimila.com/ubuntuosx.php .

Thats pretty much it.

Aditya Shevade