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That's when i noticed that the compiz animation for opening windows actually increases the time for a program to start.

I tried reducing the duration of that certain animation from 200 to only 50 and now it feels like my system is much faster and responsive just because i saved that half a second here and there.

My point is the default animation durations for compiz should be shorter to give the impression of a more responsive operating system. But that doesn't mean it should be disabled, because compiz animations never fail to impress people.

The animations for closing windows can be left longer to act as eyecandy because it affects the overall responsiveness less.



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*updated with the new location to keep the wallpaper active next time
*the system could have a copy of the image file to keep it active.

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for example:
1- English.
2- French.
3- ..... .
in form of buttons, to help users get completely, what is ubuntu !

and create subdomains for these languages
for example: fr.ubuntu.com
|--> would let the users view ubuntu in french.
also: de.ubuntu.com
|--> would let the users view ubuntu in duetch.


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I have worked alot to set up my desktop. I have spent hours to find additional repos and packages to set my system as I like it. Now someone saw my system and he said that he wants the same.

The solution:
We should have an application which takes crucial informations like extra repos, installed packages and prepares an install script which will install on the other machine the same stuff.

The advantage:
Like this we could give ideas to the beginners how to customize their desktops, and they can share their ideas with each other.

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http://superfoor.deviantart.com/art/Ubuntu-Touch-Screen-Idea-107172364

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Wallpapers that gave me the idea:

http://dylanmccall.googlepages.com/DayOfUbuntuSlideshow.tar.gz

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Please comment.

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this does not have anything to do with compiz, it just work as any plug-in, so you can enable it as any other plug-in for the application you want!

as you can see in this screen-shot i am activating a plug-in called: "Rgba Visual"
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/384589/Screenshot2.png

In my case i just got Metacity's composite manager enabled but you can activate compiz and get this:
http://gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre2/42755-2.jpg
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/384589/42755-3.jpg
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=42755

the main difference between this and others transparency creators is that murrine applies real transparency to windows but it is not applied to text, as you can see in the screen-shot, so we can read text clearly having a real and native transparency.
we can disable-enable native transparency whenever we want, great!

IRC #murrine
http://murrine.cimitan.com
http://cimitan.com
http://manzabud.blogspot.com/2008/12/rgba-con-el-motor-murrine-en-intrepid.html

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This is a good example:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/-3LuyW0Vy7Sapf6U5RZn-w?authkey=oXsqA8rO8Vc&feat=directlink

I wish nautilus had smaller thumbnails like thunar, and i wish they did something about long file names.

This is a screenshot of the same folder but in the thunar file manager:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/74ZPlWZAVtjK2QyZ4Iz9ZQ?authkey=oXsqA8rO8Vc&feat=directlink


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I suggest showing image dimensions on the "foot" of Nautilus window near the file size.

For example:

"image01.jpg" selected (67,6 KiB) would be one of the following messages:
"image01.jpg" selected (67,6 KiB) JPEG Image (294x150 pixels)
"image01.jpg" selected (67,6 KiB) Image (294x150 pixels)
"image01.jpg" selected (67,6 KiB) (294x150 pixels)

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These are the actual Cover Design:
http://shop.canonical.com/index.php?cPath=17&osCsid=6741f640226153dd76fb87e3d56998c7
Ubuntu DVD/CD covers looks good but Kubuntu ones looks very ugly.
Beside DVD/CD covers, you can see in this web page that they use different styles for left side icons buttons, they should be uniform, i mean "Buy Support" is different than others, they could just use tango icons style, but they look horrible as it is now, i mean it looks like it was made in a hurry!

This is the best GNU/linux distribution, and opensuse.org has a better design. U_U

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It is very annoying to always have to change it again and again.

Thanks :)


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you can roll with images by wheel in mouse as switcher in compiz but, mini switcher

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I think for gnome/gtk's look to be more efficient and professional it should take it down a notch, smaller buttons, dropdown boxes and input boxes (entry). Believe me, it would look a lot more attractive.

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- Progress bars are not animated as in native qt applications.
- File dialogs are still gtk (qgtkstlye uses native gtk dialogs in qt applications)
- Tabs are easily overlapped by their contents (look at gimp)
- Ugly hacks (firefox crash hack - scrollbar)
- Sometimes system-wide icons settings are ignored in gtk apps

Even though a lot of these looks like bugs I'm pretty sure the author is limited by GTK's capabilities on this particular issue.

It would be better if we had a project from scratch that adopts the qgtkstyle's design choices.

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