So I got bored while waiting for Haiku to mature

Forum thread started by unheeding on Sun, 2012-09-30 20:00

So I decided to make my Xubuntu installation look as much like Haiku/BeOS as possible. How'd I do?

http://imgur.com/a/fmqtb

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Re: So I got bored while waiting for Haiku to mature

by forart.it - 2012-10-01 07:18

Haiku *IS* mature, the problem is the lack of useful production software, IMHO.

I think I'll stay with Windows/Vegas for a long time. :(

Re: So I got bored while waiting for Haiku to mature

by xsive - 2012-10-01 18:14

Yeah same here, I never have the OS crash or anything and runs great, but doesn't have the software I need or WiFi drivers :(

Re: So I got bored while waiting for Haiku to mature

by xsive - 2012-10-01 18:17

Oh but gone off topic :D I quite like your beos look desktop, icons are nice etc... hate the quicklaunch thing on the left though! its huge!

Re: So I got bored while waiting for Haiku to mature

by andrewclunn - 2012-10-01 18:26

Nice. It's a BeS OS, not really what it claims to be and is only there to luanch Haiku via virtual machine until you'r eokay with running it full time. Clearly the best Linux distro ever :D

Re: So I got bored while waiting for Haiku to mature

by drcouzelis - 2012-10-02 12:55

I think you did great! But I see one big problem:

You forgot to post instructions on how you did it! :D :D

Re: So I got bored while waiting for Haiku to mature

by unheeding - 2012-10-15 04:24

Okay, here goes!

This is Xfce 4.10, which includes a new "Deskbar mode", along with multiple rows. The deskbar (Panel 0) is set to Deskbar mode, Row size 28, Number of Rows 5, length 1% (with Automatically increase the length checked). The menu button I snatched from a Haiku screenshot and removed the grey around it (so it's just a feather with a transparent background).

Panel 1 (the ugly launchers in the screenshot) is just a simple set of launchers and "Show Desktop"/Filesystem/Trash applets. I've tweaked it since the screenshot was taken, so it's not quite as ugly.

Panel 2 is a horizontal panel that automatically increases in length. I've moved all the weather / system tray icons there

The Window Manager theme is "Haiku Alpha" -> http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Haiku-Alpha?content=99215

The GTK theme is "Murrina Haikuish" -> http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=127322

I can't find the link for the icons, something like this should work-> http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9763

Here's how it looks now: http://i.imgur.com/DzrzK.png (the left "Dock" autohides)

Re: So I got bored while waiting for Haiku to mature

by cipri - 2012-10-15 14:38

best method against being bored is.... working.
There is a lot of stuff that any "bored" person can do for haiku.