Customize Linux GUI

[coxis]

Hi , my new project :

www.guistyles.com (http://www.guistyles.com)

Enjoy

[jim]

is that gperfection a regular iconset ?
install the same way as others?

[coxis]

Yes it is the same gnome iconsets as anothers.

I see the link is bad .... wait 5 minutes

I write a faq toturial how to install themes soon.

[jim]

ican install the theme no prob. only that there is only 1 icon per folder

& it doesn't show up in the theme details ans a valid icon set

[coxis]

ok it works , thanx for pointing to that error

[jim]

Thanks
All better now

[coxis]

No problemo , Enjoy

People maybe you know something cool for linux gui , give me a link and i post it on the page.

[imdeemvp]

I use gperfection in my laptop which I like very much....

[jim]

No problemo , Enjoy

People maybe you know something cool for linux gui , give me a link and i post it on the page.
See this

http://www.fedorajim.homelinux.com/movies/Engage.htm

This was taken when i was using Gnometal icons. The rendering isn't that great due to not enoiugh memory which wil, be taken care of shortly

The application is called engage.

[Clunixchit]

does this work with kde?

[jim]

what work with KDE ?

engage ?
I would say so
from http://get-e.org/User_Guide/English_pages/4.2.html
Standalone Engage specific information:


The standalone Engage should work in almost any windowmanager, except E17.

[coxis]

Engage i know this apps , but the instalation is difficult.

I mean a styles , icons etc.

[jim]

Install is a breeze No need to compile from source or any of that

See My article
http://www.fedorajim.homelinux.com/pages/Engage-tutorial.html

[Clunixchit]

what work with KDE ?

engage ?
I would say so

ok,
nevermind although i wont install it, it will not serve any purpose to me

[coxis]

Ok thanx , i don't know it can be install from rpm (only cvs as i know).

I will check that apps.

Install is a breeze No need to compile from source or any of that

See My article
http://www.fedorajim.homelinux.com/pages/Engage-tutorial.html

[cardinal II]

I installed Engage and got it working following Jim's guide. It was a bit of a nightmare. It's also pretty buggy and making the eapp files is something I won't even try. It runs quite quickly however.

[jim]

Building the eapp files is really simple if you don't want to , I host them i have about 100 different eapp file so pick your poison.

I have Ubuntu installed on my notebook.

I had to compile and build the WHOLE E17 framework from scratch. Talk about a nightmare
Be glad that Fedoera Core users can yum install engage and everything esle.

[robghealey]

May I ask whata engage is and what it does?

Thanks for the help...

[coxis]

Engage is a dock , like Mac OS X dock.
It starts apps ....

[robghealey]

How do I get engage? What site do I go to? I am running fc4, so I think that I would need the source tarballs? Please do not move this post as it is relevant to this thread?

Thanks for the help....

[jim]

See my other post in this thread # 13

follow the tutorial you can use a fc3 that I supply in the tutorial

[coxis]

I've upload a new aqua skin for the site. :)

http://coxis.webhop.net/wordpress

[coxis]

Hey i do like on the toturial but it doesn't work :
i type engage and nothing , no errors.
i put to .e e and apps , to e applications and there all and engage ... to all eapp , to engage .order ... to apps/engage/sysicon/file.edj

Any idea ?

[jim]

The latest build from the CVS in which Didier built engage from has a problem. When the CVS is updated, didier said he will build a new set of rpms. take a peek at his site
http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe/fedora/3/en/i386/RPMS.e17/ and make sure the rpms are dated AFTER 5-29-2005 within the name of the rpm. I had already chatteed with him about this so it should only be a few days before everything is fixed !

[coxis]

Ok i will be waiting for it.

[coxis]

New adress : www.GuiStyles.com

[jim]

I just tried the latest rpms and still the same problem I emailed didier about thios along with a strace. So hopefully someone can get to the bottom of this.. I don't use panels in gnome So off to E as intended

If you installed Enlightenment ( which i think you need to) in order to have engage.
try switchdesk enlightenment

once enlightenment opens open a terminal window and enter this
enlightenment_remote -module-load engage

It should use the .order file you have.

[jim]

Here is the fix

rpms dated 20050603 require the following rpms installed
esmart-devel, imlib2-devel, edje-devel, ecore-devel, evas-devel
ewl-devel, enlightenment-devel, embryo-devel, emotion-devel

So a simple

sudo yum --enablerepo=Didier -y install esmart-devel imlib2-devel edje-devel ecore-devel evas-devel ewl-devel embryo-devel emotion-devel enlightenment-devel


should get everything for you

[jim]

See the tutorial now I updated it to reflect the changes. Ther is also a text file link to compare the rpms you have installed against the ones I have installed

[coxis]

Ok i take a look at toturial

I don't know what is new in toturial.

I just do the yum stuff from 28post.

[coxis]

Ok it works :

I've just add :

yum --enablerepo=Didier -y install esmart-devel imlib2-devel edje-devel ecore-devel evas-devel ewl-devel embryo-devel emotion-devel enlightenment-devel

Thanx very much :)

[coxis]

I upload a screen with engage :

www.guistyles.com

[psycho_circus]

I finally got Engage up and running and I am thrilled so far. I wanted to know how do I make icons for new programs? Like DVD Shrink that I run through Wine; how would I get an icon for that in Engage?

[jim]

See the end of my article. there is a download for the build-eapp Step 6

[92b16vx]

Ok, so I was bored, and I entered this in hte terminal...

sudo yum --enablerepo=Didier -y install esmart-devel imlib2-devel edje-devel ecore-devel evas-devel ewl-devel embryo-devel emotion-devel enlightenment-devel

And I got this...

Updating: xorg-x11-libs 100 % done 1/40
Installing: eet 100 % done 2/40
Installing: edb 100 % done 3/40
Installing: evas 100 % done 4/40
Installing: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs 100 % done 5/40
Installing: ecore 100 % done 6/40
Installing: embryo 100 % done 7/40
Installing: imlib2 100 % done 8/40
Installing: libtool-libs 100 % done 9/40
Installing: edje 100 % done 10/40
Installing: emotion 100 % done 11/40
Installing: epeg 100 % done 12/40
Installing: pkgconfig 100 % done 13/40
Installing: epsilon 100 % done 14/40
Installing: esmart 100 % done 15/40
Installing: ewl 100 % done 16/40
Installing: enlightenment 100 % done 17/40
Installing: aalib 100 % done 18/40
Updating: xorg-x11-xfs 100 % done 19/40
Updating: xorg-x11 100 % done 20/40
Installing: zlib-devel 100 % done 21/40
Installing: freetype-devel 100 % done 22/40
Installing: fontconfig-devel 100 % done 23/40
Installing: xorg-x11-devel 100 % done 24/40
Installing: libmodplug 100 % done 25/40
Installing: xine-lib 100 % done 26/40
Installing: ewl-devel 100 % done 27/40
Installing: imlib2-devel 100 % done 28/40
Installing: edje-devel 100 % done 29/40
Installing: evas-devel 100 % done 30/40
Installing: esmart-devel 100 % done 31/40
Installing: ecore-devel 100 % done 32/40
Installing: emotion-devel 100 % done 33/40
Installing: embryo-devel 100 % done 34/40
Installing: enlightenment-devel 100 % done 35/40
Updating: xorg-x11-xdm 100 % done 36/40
Completing update for xorg-x11-libs - 37/40
Completing update for xorg-x11 - 38/40
Completing update for xorg-x11-xfs - 39/40
Completing update for xorg-x11-xdm - 40/40

Installed: ecore-devel.i386 0:0.9.9.010-1.20050613cvs edje-devel.i386 0:0.5.0.010-1.20050611cvs embryo-devel.i386 0:0.9.1.010-1.20050611cvs emotion-devel.i386 0:0.0.1.003-1.20050611cvs enlightenment-devel.i386 0:0.16.999.010-1.20050613cvs esmart-devel.i386 0:0.9.0.003-1.20050611cvs evas-devel.i386 0:0.9.9.010-1.20050611cvs ewl-devel.i386 0:0.0.4.003-1.20050611cvs imlib2-devel.i386 0:1.2.1.001-1.20050611cvs
Dependency Installed: aalib.i386 0:1.4.0-0.rc5.3 ecore.i386 0:0.9.9.010-1.20050613cvs edb.i386 0:1.0.5.003-1.20050611cvs edje.i386 0:0.5.0.010-1.20050611cvs eet.i386 0:0.9.10.010-1.20050611cvs embryo.i386 0:0.9.1.010-1.20050611cvs emotion.i386 0:0.0.1.003-1.20050611cvs enlightenment.i386 0:0.16.999.010-1.20050613cvs epeg.i386 0:0.9.0.003-1.20050611cvs epsilon.i386 0:0.3.0.003-1.20050611cvs esmart.i386 0:0.9.0.003-1.20050611cvs evas.i386 0:0.9.9.010-1.20050611cvs ewl.i386 0:0.0.4.003-1.20050611cvs fontconfig-devel.i386 0:2.2.3-5 freetype-devel.i386 0:2.1.9-1 imlib2.i386 0:1.2.1.001-1.20050611cvs libmodplug.i386 1:0.7-1 libtool-libs.i386 0:1.5.6-4.FC3.2 pkgconfig.i386 1:0.15.0-3 xine-lib.i386 0:1.0.1-0.lvn.3.3 xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.i386 0:6.8.2-1.FC3.13 xorg-x11-devel.i386 0:6.8.2-1.FC3.13 zlib-devel.i386 0:1.2.1.2-1
Dependency Updated: xorg-x11.i386 0:6.8.2-1.FC3.13 xorg-x11-libs.i386 0:6.8.2-1.FC3.13 xorg-x11-xdm.i386 0:6.8.2-1.FC3.13 xorg-x11-xfs.i386 0:6.8.2-1.FC3.13
Complete!

So, now what did I download, and what does it do :) hahahahahaha Sorry, I am new to Linux, and find it fun installing things and running things just to see what they do, so what does this do?

[jtang613]

You just installed Enlightenment. It's another window manager, like Gnome or KDE. You can log into it by changing you 'Session' from the GDM Login screen or by typing 'switchdesk enlightenment' in a terminal window.

Jason

[92b16vx]

Cool, I'll have to check it out

[coxis]

Hey people how about engage in FC4 , does it works from that repo ?

[yarrowfish]

I used this repo and it worked perfect on FC 4.

[Didier]
name=Didier's yum repository for e17 apps/lib
baseurl=http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe/fedora/3/en/i386

Give it a try!