Today, I booted up the Edgy Xubuntu Desktop CD and made the modifications to the interface that will be in the final version of Copland.
Unfortunately, I could not get the Ghrome GTK theme to work properly, nor my GDM theme. Maybe the machine would need a restart to get these things to work, but of course this wouldn’t work for the Live CD :-) It seems to require MORE than the gtk2-engines-pixbuf package.
The modified Ghrome-slim XFWM theme worked, and I decided that a desktop wiki probably wasn’t necessary.
The fun part has finished… now the real work begins.
Here’s a screenshot:
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The miniature panel at the bottom-left is meant to replicate the functionality of the Control Strip from OS 9, as is the window list menu in the top-right corner. The GTK theme in this screenshot is "Grey" - not bad, but certainly not as nice as Ghrome. The icon theme is Rodent, but I think the final distribution will have Tango.
The Control Strip has the following functions in this order:
1. Show Desktop
2. Clipboard Manager
3. Notes
4. Take Screenshot (will not be in final version, only in screenshots)
5. Volume Control
6. Workspace Switcher (Graphical Pager)
7. System Tray (nothing in it)
8. Trash Can
The Logout button is next to the Applications menu… notice here that I haven’t changed the Xubuntu logo in the XFCE menu, as I have nothing to change it to at the moment.
Edit: Here’s the GDM theme, running on my main Ubuntu installation:
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