can lxde look nice?

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muhammed
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Is this what it looks like in Trisquel Mini 7?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LXDE_desktop_full.png

Are there any (easy) customization options? Things like colour, font, text-size, an icon dock.

Mzee
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Yes, it can look nice as you can see here: http://tutorfreebr.blogspot.de/2013/07/trisquel-gnulinux-60-uma-distribuicao.html

The link shows how Trisquel-Mini looks by default. There are quite some options to customize it.

onpon4
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Those are all screenshots of the default GNOME DE, not Trisquel-Mini.

Mzee
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Yep, sorry. You're right. That was the wrong link. Maybe another one can help: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cje9wvsBnw0/ToSeqAhQg8I/AAAAAAAABaI/V2fT04Q4_iM/s1600/Screenshot-8.png

muhammed
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Is that Trisquel 7's default appearance? It looks good.

quantumgravity
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Ok, this looks way better than the original lxde.
I mean, why using a color-gradient for the bottom bar which makes it look like a 3-dimensional body while all the icons look 2-dimensional?
What were they thinking??

davidnotcoulthard (not verified)
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Sorry about being late to the party (And yes, my post is a bit unrelated).

Yes, it can.

Screenshot from 2014-08-16 21:51:24.png
muhammed
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Does anyone know how to make LXDE look like this?

Garsmith
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I played around a bit today with Trisquel 6.0.1 mini in VirtualBox and this is the result. This is what I did...

Background from Trisquel 7 20140807 disc.

Panel color: #DFDFDF

Panel applets:
Menu
Space: 8
Application Launch Bar
Space: 8
Task Mar (Windows List) - Stretched
Volume Control
System Tray
Digital Clock

Added LXTerminal in Application Launch Bar

Openbox Configuration Manager
Theme: Clearlooks

Icons:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ravefinity-project/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rave-x-colors-icons ambiance-colors radiance-colors

Customixe Look and Feel:
Widgets: Radiance-Graphite
Icon Theme: RAVE-X-Full-Dark-Grey

Trisquel601mini.png
muhammed
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I'll try this out -- thanks Garsmith

axgb
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It is as if default LXde is designed to be as ugly as possible.

However, when I used to have a 2003 laptop, i started to rather like it after a bit.

muhammed
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I wonder whether the unattractiveness helps with marketing. Maybe the idea is that potential users will think "LXDE is ugly -- and so committed to being light-weight!"

axgb
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That sounds very probable. It looks like something from the past, a little bit like windows 95. But I liked it.
It could also be that they are so keen on other things that they just do not care about it looking nice.