I like it already. Looks very nice :) I tend to not do a lot beyond a few things myself, so I may not be a great judge. My current setup has a wallpaper I like, and I matched colors on the theme. I also changed the system fonts to one I liked to look at more and can read easier. Oh, and I make it so nothing shows up on the desktop/wallpaper itself unless it’s a mounted drive (like a thumbdrive) or a reminder flag (I have a cron job set up to set a little reminder flag when I should run maintenance, for example). That way my desktop is clear unless there’s something active to work on. Lately I also changed the panel a bit, too - moved it to the top and added things like a favorites and a recent documents applet.
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Except for the really cool wallpaper, it looks like a standard install. What did you do already?
I changed the GTK theme, icons, and the color & opacity of the bar
I like it already. Looks very nice :) I tend to not do a lot beyond a few things myself, so I may not be a great judge. My current setup has a wallpaper I like, and I matched colors on the theme. I also changed the system fonts to one I liked to look at more and can read easier. Oh, and I make it so nothing shows up on the desktop/wallpaper itself unless it’s a mounted drive (like a thumbdrive) or a reminder flag (I have a cron job set up to set a little reminder flag when I should run maintenance, for example). That way my desktop is clear unless there’s something active to work on. Lately I also changed the panel a bit, too - moved it to the top and added things like a favorites and a recent documents applet.