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Which distro of Linux has the fancy desktop? - mizzy - 2006-05-08


Hi, I have seen a few screen shots of linux and some have got like a really fancy menu bar which enlarges as you pass your mouse over it, it looks a bit like apple mac os's actually.

 

Which linux is this? I'm currently using FC4 and can't seem to find any options to have a cool menu bar :)

 

Thanks!! :)



Which distro of Linux has the fancy desktop? - hybrid - 2006-05-08


Quote:Hi, I have seen a few screen shots of linux and some have got like a really fancy menu bar which enlarges as you pass your mouse over it, it looks a bit like apple mac os's actually. 

Which linux is this? I'm currently using FC4 and can't seem to find any options to have a cool menu bar :)

 

Thanks!! :)
 

 

There is an application called ksmoothdock (primarily a KDE application) which does do some Mac OS-style zooming.

 

In Fedora you might well be able to install it with yum -y install ksmoothdock, but it probably works best with the KDE desktop (and 3D drivers for the really smooth zooming).



Which distro of Linux has the fancy desktop? - mizzy - 2006-05-08


Quote:In Fedora you might well be able to install it with yum -y install ksmoothdock, but it probably works best with the KDE desktop (and 3D drivers for the really smooth zooming).
 

Tried that, didn't work couldn't find the mirrors all the time.

 

Quote:There is an application called ksmoothdock (primarily a KDE application) which does do some Mac OS-style zooming.
 

I downloaded it from there, but it doesn't want to work on my FC4 :(

 

After I've extracted it (tar -xvzf ksmoothdock-3.6.1.tar.gz) and done ./configure, it just keeps saying:

 



Code:
......
...
checking for crt_externs.h... no
checking for _NSGetEnviron... no
checking for vsnprintf... yes
checking for snprintf... yes
checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!




 

Any idea's for an alternate solution? unless the above can be fixed? o_O



Which distro of Linux has the fancy desktop? - znx - 2006-05-08

Show us the screenshot so we can identify it. Superkarma, gdesklets and adesklets all have scripts that can create that kind of toolbar.


Which distro of Linux has the fancy desktop? - mizzy - 2006-05-09


I'd be happy if I can create a desktop like this..

 

[/url][url=http://antares.escomposlinux.org/images/Ca...s/Captura14.jpg]http://antares.escomposlinux.org/images/Ca...s/Captura14.jpg

 

I love the menu bar on that one :)

 

I have looked for gdesklets, then I've looked for an rpm in that and installed that. It has installed (wahoo!) but it doesn't seem to do anything. I think I need other packages with it or something? o_O

 

This is a screen shot of what I have got...

 

[Image: screenshot1pp.th.png]

 

Any idea's? :)

 

 

*Really wants a coool desktop now B):):):) *



Which distro of Linux has the fancy desktop? - znx - 2006-05-09


Quote:*Really wants a coool desktop now B):):):) *
 

Looks like Karamba is at the heart of that desktop.. check out these

[/url]http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=5812 - Tuxbar (os x style)

[url=http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=26838]http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=26838 - CoyoteSysMon .. not the one in the screenie but similar..

 

Browse KDE look for the complete list (its huge!).



Which distro of Linux has the fancy desktop? - mizzy - 2006-05-10


Cheers for that :)

 

I've decided to stick with gdesklets as it looks to do the job that I want and looks fairly simple :)

 

As I had trouble installing the tar file, I searched for an rpm and downloaded one from this website (I downloaded the "1386" one) - Installed that, but when I've added candy bar or clocks to it, its quite buggy and comes up with errors, so ditch that I thought.

 

So I went back to the homepage to download their latest one which is: [/url][url=http://gdesklets.org/?mod=downloads/gdesklets]http://gdesklets.org/?mod=downloads/gdesklets (which is a tar file). Downloaded that and i've done:

 

- Signed in as root

- tar -xjf gDesklets-0.35.3.tar.bz2

- Cd'ed to gDesklets directory

- ./configure && make && checkinstall

 

Then it comes back with...

 



Code:
checking /usr/include/python2.4/Python.h usability... no
checking /usr/include/python2.4/Python.h presence... no
checking for /usr/include/python2.4/Python.h... no
configure: error: Can't find Python.h! You will need the python development package
          to successfully compile gDesklets.




 

Is there a yum command to install that? :)I've looked for an rpm of it on google and there's loads o_O[img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_ohmy.png[/img] not sure which package it is that I need to install to make this work.. :/



Which distro of Linux has the fancy desktop? - znx - 2006-05-10




Code:
configure: error: Can't find Python.h! You will need the python development package to successfully compile gDesklets.




 

Try

 



Code:
yum install python-devel




 

(or maybe -dev) .. this should let it compile.



Which distro of Linux has the fancy desktop? - mizzy - 2006-05-10


That worked (yay :) ) but then it said that I needed another compiler?! o_O

 



Code:
checking for GDESKLETS... configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old.  Make sure it
is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full
path to pkg-config.

Alternatively you may set the GDESKLETS_CFLAGS and GDESKLETS_LIBS environment variables
to avoid the need to call pkg-config.  See the pkg-config man page for
more details.

To get pkg-config, see <http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig>.
See `config.log' for more details.




 

I followed the link, it don't take me anywhere where I can download it o_O So I tried this on the offchance that it would work..

 



Code:
yum install pkg-config-dev


which give me the following;

 



Code:
yum install pkg-config-dev
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 431 kB    00:02
updates-re: ################################################## 1151/1151
Added 11 new packages, deleted 75 old in 6.46 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: pkg-config-dev
Nothing to do




 

Which i'm guessing didn't install or update? maybe i've got the code wrong, I just guessed that it would be that. Any idea's?

 

Sorry to be a pita :( but I'm determined to get a cool desktop :):):)



Which distro of Linux has the fancy desktop? - znx - 2006-05-10


Quote:That worked (yay :) ) but then it said that I needed another compiler?! o_O
 

hehe :)

 

I notice that the RPM is called pkgconfig without the -.

 



Code:
yum install pkgconfig




 

I doubt that the -dev package exists as pkgconfig is related to source code installs :)