A Man and his Penguin

Remember those "mood rings" that were popular in the early 90s, and that you can still find today at lesbian stalls in street markets? They changed colour depending on your mood - well, that was the theory.

I got depressed today because, well, I’m lonely and I just saw the girl down the road who-I-like-but-doesn’t-think-I’m-that-great. So I did as any guy would do when feeling down in the dumps: Changed his desktop theming.

I’m not like Sal where I change it every day for the benefit of my readers :-)   And I’d never noticed me changing themes depending on general mood. But today, hey, I was lonely and so I started fiddling. I didn’t have any GTK or Metacity themes that I felt like using, so I searched out some - for some reason, I was looking for Vista lookalikes.

But then I spotted a rare treasure: A distinctive, attractive theme that is easy on the eyes. Admittedly, the Metacity part is meant to look like Mac OS X, but both parts are tasteful and look excellent. And there is enough difference between active and inactive windows, and between checkboxes being turned on and off. I present for you, the theme of loneliness:

Now I’ve just got to try it on XFCE, and we’ll see if it will replace IndustrialTango in Copland.

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