The above pic looks good. Icons matches with overall theme. Looks like I am one of few who have not altered anything as I really like default theme and icons.
@ DX2: How'd you get the icons so tiny on the dash bar? Or is your screen enormous? (That's what ubuntu looks like on an apple Retina display BTW- super tiny)
You can adjust icon sizes, i'll have to look, i forgot how i did it. it's in system settings i think, go here... --http://schwarzschildmetric.com/2011/05/03/resize-unity-launcher-icons-in-ubuntu-11-04/
this is some peace of art http://mmesantos1.deviantart.com/art/Kubuntu-Blue-Nightmare-Rush-325776923?q=gallery:mmesantos1&qo=2 http://mmesantos1.deviantart.com/ar...-321040527?q=gallery:mmesantos1/15366836&qo=5
Right click on your desktop, and click "Change Desktop background." From there you will see a slider bar at the bottom for adjusting the icon size.
My updated Linux Desktop 'Linux Mint 13 Maya Cinnamon' with Ultimate Edition Theme and Icons...+ Hacktivist Cinnamon Theme. Full Size Here Get Wallpaper Here I downloaded Ultimate Edition and had to go through hell to get it to run correctly in a vm then I got the Icons from /usr/share/icons and themes from the theme folder http://imageshack.us/a/img253/1804/workspace1043.png
Im using Sea mdm for my GDM Splash Screen Looks nice on my 1920x1080 screen! NOTE; Screenshot is from link and is not my screenshot, and is only being used to promote the artists work!! http://linuxmint-art.org/content/show.php/Sea mdm?content=152759
A different thingy - its NOT Unity, GNOME 3, Cinnamon, MATE, KDE, XFCE or LXDE at all. A new Linux desktop shell created specifically for elementaryos. Its called Pantheon:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/209/screenry.png/ Ubuntu 12.04.1 with WMII. Unity sluggishness problems = solved. It's almost all default settings, but there's some stuff you can't see here: - Sadly there's no networkmanager support for WMII. But since I'm using it on top of a default Ubuntu install, I can just use gnome-control-center's Network page to connect to wifi networks, and nm-connection-editor for anything more complicated. It's a little convoluted, but it works. - I'm using pcmanfm for my main file manager, not Nautilus, because Nautilus is hideously slow. - lxappearance controls the GTK theme, and feh displays the wallpaper. I'm still (re)familiarizing myself with the keybindings, but overall I feel that WMII with Gnome apps does a much better job than Unity as a keyboard-controlled desktop, provided you're okay with a steeper learning curve. It's much more responsive, which is doubly important when you use the keyboard; and the lack of launcher icons, etc. encourages keyboard use.
Intel GPU, not nVidia. Blur, shadow, and translucency are all horrible on old Intel chipsets, so Unity 3D is pretty much out. (Unity 2D is, if anything, worse than Unity/Compiz. Mostly because the dock's desktop shrinking/zooming animations are very slow, and I keep forgetting to use alt-tab instead. I don't really understand the need for such animations, instead of just showing a list of X application's windows... But that's why I'm not using Unity.)
