[TDE] Vintage desktop for vintage style
Jul 9, 2020 11:33:49 GMT -8
Post by spotracite on Jul 9, 2020 11:33:49 GMT -8
So I figured the best way to go about a vintage theme on Linux was to get a vintage desktop environment, that being TDE (the continuation of KDE 3). It's pretty good and I can use it as my daily driver very well!
Here is the screenshot:
Anyways, here are the actual details:
- Distro: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (not the best in general but definitely the best for TDE)
- TQT Style: MS Windows 9x (comes with TDE)
- QT Style: GTK+
- TQT/QT Colorscheme: Storm (comes with TDE)
- TWIN Decorations: Redmond (comes with TDE)
- TDE Icons: TDE-Classic (installed via tdeartwork)
- GTK+ Style: Redmond97 Storm by /u/matthewmx86 (very good theme, better than Chicago95 in terms of accuracy)
- Cursor: Chicago95 Standard
- Background: From tiles-and-such, solaris_dolphins.png
- Audacious Skin: From Platinum9, mac8amp.wsz
- General Fonts: Trebuchet MS 10 (ripped from Windows 10)
- Fixed Width Fonts: Consolas 10 (ripped from Windows 10)
TDE is probably the best desktop environment to do this on, it was built in a time when the Windows Classic theme was a must-have for any enterprise Linux distro so it has really cool features like color schemes (I can switch to any color scheme you name), proper titlebar buttons, and the TQt styles (buttons and such) are almost perfect because they were built by professional companies rather than FOSS programmers. MS Windows 9x isn't the default style, it normally looks closer to Windows XP with a style called 'Plastik', but it comes with other styles that can make it look like a Macintosh running MacOS 8/9 OR MacOS 10.1, a NeXT Cube running OPENSTEP 4, an SGI Octane running the Indigo Magic Desktop, a Unix box running the Common Desktop Environment, and many, many more. It's definitely my favorite just because of how many old themes it has and how configurable it is.
