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Re: My take / suggestions on linux lite - chke419 - 01-27-2016

(01-27-2016, 08:22 PM)avj link Wrote: You may want to try a different icon theme such as the one at the following link.

http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/smoothX-Xfce?content=163261

I looked at this from the link you provided and it only showed the desktop icons so I guess my question is does or will this also change the system tray icons where the time,sound,network connection and battery reside? This is more of what I am searching for is for the tray icons but am willing to change them all up if necessary.

Thanks so much for your efforts in advance. Smile

Re: My take / suggestions on linux lite - chke419 - 01-27-2016

Another question I have is where do I find the program for the clock, date and system information to show on the desktop like it does in those pictures? That would sure make those items easily readable.

Re: My take / suggestions on linux lite - avj - 01-27-2016

The suggested icon theme contains many different themes and very colorful icons throughout tray icons included. I am including a screenshot with the icons used with the default LL desktop theme you can click on the image to get a better view.

[Image: yvqmW7G.png]

Not sure on the desktop clock feature but some other forum member is likely to know.

Re: My take / suggestions on linux lite - chke419 - 01-27-2016

avj

That is just what I needed, thanks so much. Those icons are so much easier to see then the LL default. I can even shrink the bar back down to size again and see what they are. Color does make a big difference. And even the desktop icons that I wasn't really worried about now have color. Again I can't thank you enough! There went that drabby gray on gray!

God bless you man

Re: My take / suggestions on linux lite - avj - 01-27-2016

No problem, I am just glad I could help. Smile

Re: My take / suggestions on linux lite - torreydale - 01-28-2016

I like this set of icons, avj. Except for the Create System Report utility, it seems very complete. Easy to install, too.

Re: My take / suggestions on linux lite - avj - 01-28-2016

Thanks Smile

It is one of the most complete icon sets I have found.

Re: My take / suggestions on linux lite - LL-user - 01-28-2016

(01-17-2016, 06:48 PM)Wirezfree link Wrote: [quote author=chke419 link=topic=2649.msg20242#msg20242 date=1453048779][size=1em]
"trust me when I say there are some softwares out there I wish they would make for linux such as East - tec eraser, CCleaner and O&O Defrag. [/size]

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[size=1em]For me, It is stable, it's lite on resource, no bloat or eye candy, and it covers 99% of what I need
If I could get a MS Visio replacement, it would be 100%, nearest I have found is DIA

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Hi Wirezfree,

First of all, I do not have much experience with MS Visio at all. So the following might be useless as I only can quote the information without verifying it.

Have you come across/ tested yED (Graph Editor)?

https://www.yworks.com/products/yed

Quote:yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams.
Create diagrams manually, or import your external data for analysis. Our automatic layout algorithms arrange even large data sets with just the press of a button.

yEd is freely available and runs on all major platforms: Windows, Unix/Linux, and Mac OS X.

http://www.nextstep4it.com/ubuntu-linux-yed-graph-editor/

Quote: yEd(Graph Editor) is an open source and powerful desktop application written in Java programming language. yED is generally used to generate high-quality diagrams. It is an alternate or replacement of Microsoft office Visio on Ubuntu Linux.
Key Features :

Import your own data from an Excel / spreadsheet (.xls) or XML

Create diagrams with ease via an intuitive user interface.

Automatically arrange your diagram elements.

Export bitmap and vector graphics as PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF, SWF

Hope that helps Smile

Re: My take / suggestions on linux lite - Wirezfree - 01-28-2016

@LL-user,

Many Thanks... unfortunately I have tried that.
MS-Visio is very clever drawing tool, I use it for mainly for flow & process(swim lane) diagrams
I can knock-up diagrams very quickly with drag & drop, connect shapes with lines that just snap into place.

I have used it since mid 90's when it was Shapeware, it was acquired in 2000 by MS
If you ignore the nasty ribbon bar MS added, it is still very capable.

Colleagues used to use it for connecting to database's to reverse engineer them, draw the schemas.

Re: My take / suggestions on linux lite - chke419 - 02-09-2016

Now that I have the destop good enough for the time being, now I need to get started on other modifications to LL. I am more surprised then ever after having read through allot of the posts here at the forum that Linux Lite doesn't still offer a stripped down version plus the regular version. There's allot of requests for a stripped down version scattered across the forum. Here I thought it was just me. 8) I will say that this distro has impressed me from allot of others, the menu and the xfce environment and the choice of system default programs works nicely especially with as stable as it is. I keep pulling crap out and it keeps kicking along. ;D

The only way they can improve this distro is just to offer a stripped down version plus work on the default bar visually by default in my opinion. I believe I will be sticking around with this particular distro as it's just a clean, user friendly desktop. Only way I think I would change is if someone else built one as described earlier with the same DE. Plus I have to admit that this forum is very user friendly.