Bitwise Evolution

Musings of a Portland-area hacker bent on improving digital lifestyles.

Vanity, Chapter 1

…empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one’s personal attainments or decorations; [1913 Webster]

I’m a sucker for pretty desktops and window managers. This weakness has yet to make me succumb to the lure of a full Gnome (or KDE) desktop, however. (Although I did play with the hack kludge known as XGL/compiz for a month or so.) I alternate between Enlightenment and FVWM, however, I do use a fair number of GTK apps. Eventually, I hope to create some gtk apps, (or wxWidgets, or etc… it all boils down to gtk showing up on screen though). Up ‘till now I’ve suffered through with the dreadfull defaults – in my opinion, of course – but that just changed with gtk-theme-switch2.

gtk-theme-switch2

It is awesome :) theme loading, previewing, setting, etc.. all without a hint of the gnome infrastructure to screw your keyboard layout, fonts, or power management.