Post a picture of your desktop!
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Mh, the Top Bar and the GUI looks like MATE, really.
Gnome3 is really different, it's kind of touch UI for me.. horrible on a PC.
Man, I have missed Arch so much. I've tried to copy my old desktops, but with some tweaks which I think look nice.
Did a fresh install of Arch (after I nuked my Linux partition in favor of more Skyrim mods) on my notebook, and installed Deepin as the desktop environment on a whim. To an extent it's really nice-looking - smooth and modern-looking with everything being pretty well integrated; you can even have the dock/taskbar set up to emulate OSX or modern Windows with a couple of clicks. A lot of it is kind of like what I imagine Budgie or stock GNOME 3 could've been if they weren't terrible.
It's not perfect; theming support is hit or miss, and some of the stock Deepin programs seem to ignore themes entirely. Confusingly enough, this includes the file manager, despite it being the program of choice in Deepin's own theme previews. Additionally, while the built-in wireless network applet is much nicer-looking than nm-applet, it lacks support for WWAN connections; as my primary connection at home is LTE I'm stuck using nm-applet anyways, unless I want to set up a script to auto-connect in the background and hope I don't need to manually reconnect or disable/reenable the WWAN card.
Anyways, it's nice enough and fast enough for my needs, even if it's not as stylistically customizable as Cinnamon or any of my other go-to DEs. I'll probably puke up a fresh screenshot once I have the icons and Conky tweaked to something a bit more palatable.
It's not perfect; theming support is hit or miss, and some of the stock Deepin programs seem to ignore themes entirely. Confusingly enough, this includes the file manager, despite it being the program of choice in Deepin's own theme previews. Additionally, while the built-in wireless network applet is much nicer-looking than nm-applet, it lacks support for WWAN connections; as my primary connection at home is LTE I'm stuck using nm-applet anyways, unless I want to set up a script to auto-connect in the background and hope I don't need to manually reconnect or disable/reenable the WWAN card.
Anyways, it's nice enough and fast enough for my needs, even if it's not as stylistically customizable as Cinnamon or any of my other go-to DEs. I'll probably puke up a fresh screenshot once I have the icons and Conky tweaked to something a bit more palatable.
I was wrong, Deepin is the most broken desktop I've tried since Windows 8 started rolling out. Tried innocently disabling its built-in networking applet via dconf, spent the next two hours un-fucking the rest of my settings. Even before that, there were settings reverting on reboot, I couldn't connect to LTE for hours at a time, and some programs flat-out refused to play nice with themes.
I guess for now I'm gonna go back to the basics.
I guess for now I'm gonna go back to the basics.
I've been playing with Fedora a bit and trying to make it feel more comfy, I guess it worked out okay in the end. I wanted to use Vala Menu instead to have a global menu with XFCE, but I would need to patch my GTK2 library since Fedora lacks the patch, so I had to kill that idea, this was the closest I could get it to my tastes. I guess I should use GNOME3 already lol.
Also while Fedora is quite nice, I still feel like I haven't found that "connection" with the distro, but it works about for most stuff. I also guess it is due to me using XFCE with Fedora, it feels like a second class citizen sometimes.
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I'm happy of this different theme (thanks @hobbledehoy899 for recommending me Vertex)
Using the Sardi-Arc icons as well
Using the Sardi-Arc icons as well
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