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rfquerin wrote:

Thanks for all the great comments and feedback. I think you're right about the shading/lighting on those 'front' faces. I've reworked it to lighten those up and actually used subtle gradients on several faces instead to give it what I think is a nicer look:

Direct Link:
http://rfquerin.org/cbang/cb_bldg_05.png (1280x800)

http://rfquerin.org/cbang/cb_bldg_05.png

Much better.

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rfquerin wrote:

I was fiddling with an extruded version of the #! logo and came up with this:

Direct Link:
1280x800: http://rfquerin.org/cbang/cb_bldg_04.png

http://rfquerin.org/cbang/cb_bldg_04.png

That looks great!  I do have one suggestion though.  The darker shade of gray on the three closest left sides looks wrong when compared to the other sides that would be facing the same light source.

I love the stuff in the architectural title block.  Good job!

kBang wrote:

http://omploader.org/tMWt2cw  http://omploader.org/tMWt2dA

Openbox:  modified from Hanna's Black_Grass to orange
GTK:  Acid modified to have a lot of orange
Icons:  Meliae-Light
Conky/Tint2 font:  VAGRounded BT
Wallpaper:  from interfacelift.com HD section

Wow! Your themes always bring a smile to my face.

Not a big fan of the stripes, but I really like the flames wallpaper.  Reminds me of smoke. Great job!

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rfquerin wrote:

ps. Actually, one of them was by me (which was one of two I sent to the FreshUbuntu podcast guys back in April of '08). http://freshubuntu.org/content/fresh-ub … eencasters

Very nice! I do like that one.

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Okay, i know this is Ubuntu wallpaper, but alot of it is really cool.  check it out>

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-most-ex … allpapers/

Thanks, this did the trick for getting my Epson Stylus CX7450 to work.  Xsane takes over a minute to find the scanner, which seems like a long time even on my old crappy P3.  At least it's working, yeah!

^^^

That's quite nice.  I like the simplicity of it.

Thanks for the tips Mcarni and Kbang, I'll have to try that out.

Piraja wrote:

So there seems to be an issue with Conky in CrunchBang: also in my present left-hand "basic" Conky window, the bottom lines of the MPD part are occasionally cut off, after I start MPD manually... This is a bit complicated, and it is also surprising that (or if) the issue occurs only with CrunchBang and, as it seems, not generally with Openbox. Might be a reason for a bug report?

Thanks Piraja, never having tried Conky on my Ubutu Hardy machine I didn't know that anything was out of the ordinary.  A person could run 2 Conkys, one above and one below right?  Next question, how do you do that?

Piraja wrote:
jdugan wrote:
stopie wrote:

Feeling minimal today

I like it.

Hmm... Stopie's screenshot seems to have vanished,  at least for me.

Jdugan, your tunnel photo is a perfect wallpaper for #!

You mean the barcode one? Strange, I'm still seeing it.

Your metro paper is starting to grow on me.  How did you get the lyrics thing so dang tall in post 686?  My conky seems to stop halfway down and starts to cut off text.

I have more photos from my vacation that I think will make good wallpaper but I haven't had time to do the image editing. sad  Maybe this weekend.

stopie wrote:

Feeling minimal today

I like it.

I finely took to the plunge and replaced my ubuntu install with #!, and am really liking it so far.  The wallpaper background is a picture I took on my road trip last week. It's of Eisenhower tunnel just west of Denver, Colorado USA.  Apparently it is the highest car tunnel in the world. 

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/808/scrot01.png

Here's my first attempt at a custom conky config.  I did have some trouble tho.  I was getting some truncating at the bottom.  I tried increasing the text buffer size but that didn't work, so I decreased the font size.  Not exactly what I wanted.  What I'm I doing wrong?

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
#xftfont Trebuchet MS:size=9
xftfont Sans:size=7

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 1

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1.0

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
#own_window_type override
own_window_type desktop
#own_window_type normal #use this if you want a nice shadow to appear around conky

# If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 150 5

# Maximum width
maximum_width 150

# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Draw borders around graphs
draw_graph_borders no

# Stippled borders?
# stippled_borders 8

# border margins
# border_margin 2

# border width
# border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
#alignment none

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 12
gap_y 20

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 2

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale no

# text_buffer_size 2000 

##############################################
##############################################

TEXT
${alignc 12}${font Sans:size=12}$nodename${font}

SYSTEM INFO ${hr 2}
Uptime $alignr$uptime
RAM $alignr$mem / $memmax
Swap $alignr$swap / $swapmax
Disk $alignr${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /}
Processor 1:$alignr${cpu cpu1}%

SHORTCUT KEYS ${hr 2}
Alt+F2$alignr Run Dialog
Alt+F3$alignr Alt Menu
Super+space$alignr Main Menu
Super+tab$alignr Client Menu
Super+t$alignr Terminal
Super+f$alignr File Manager
Super+e$alignr Editor
Super+m$alignr Media Player
Super+w$alignr Firefox
Super+g$alignr Gimp
Super+c$alignr Clock
Super+l$alignr Lock Screen
Super+v$alignr Volume
Super+u$alignr System Update
Super+x$alignr Logout
PrtSc$alignr Screenshot

PROCESSES ${hr 2}
NAME $alignr PID    CPU
${top name 1} $alignr ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1}
${top name 2} $alignr ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2}
${top name 3} $alignr ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3}
${top name 4} $alignr ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4}
${top name 5} $alignr ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5}
${top name 6} $alignr ${top pid 6} ${top cpu 6}
${top name 7} $alignr ${top pid 7} ${top cpu 7}
${top name 8} $alignr ${top pid 8} ${top cpu 8}

Ok, the typeface isn't quite the same but here is generally what it would look like.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_AKjnw2nGnHo/ScfVKaMgHeI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/SVUqrWBnB-4/cb_03-23-09_lite.png

stopie wrote:
jdugan wrote:

Another way to look at it.

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/2654/cb032209.png


Comment
: Your my new favorite person because everything you make looks friggin sweet to me! Great job on another logo idea!

Suggestion: Same logo but maybe for us who roll the lite you could have it say CrunchLite?

Thanks! I'm glad you like it.  Unfortunately I don't have the files for that design with me at work, otherwise I'd drop in the 'lite'.  Maybe i can hack something together in gimp.

Piraja wrote:

Thanks, and sorry! I thought I included your latest, too, but apparently I didn't. Did you by any chance name the file by a name you had already used for a previous file? I ask that because just before finalizing the collage, I came back to the thread to check for new submissions, and I was going to save yours but the file name appeared to be already listed in my "working directory". Of course, it could be that I had saved it but somehow managed to skip it (even though I doubt that).

There may be other omissions too, please excuse me. I tried to include each submission but I may have overlooked links, etc. The image has no less than 79 layers, according to GIMP.

I think I called it cb_03-22-09.  If you want .svg's of anything let me know.


Yeah! that's awsome. I don't see my latest one tho.

kBang wrote:
jdugan wrote:

Another way to look at it.

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/2654/cb032209.png

Reminds me a lot of KDE's "Gear" logo.

Nice logo.

Thanks, I was a little worried that the # wouldn't be obvious enough.

Another way to look at it.

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/2654/cb032209.png

Plain vanilla.

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/1025/cb032109b.png

I tried to work out all the different logo formats that might be needed.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6403/cb032009.png

Something else to consider

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/7403/cb031909.png

This might be a stupid question, but I have to ask.  Should we be thinking about CrunchEee?

rfquerin wrote:

I decided to revisit my previous isometric style logo. I've switched it to face right (which somehow seems more natural) and then decided to lop off the front 'face' of it. I think it looks pretty neat. It only consists of two shades of grey and works on a variety of background colours. The colours of the actual logo and text are unchanged in all four examples.

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/184/cbisorfquerin.png

I still like this design, but after looking at it for a while it started feeling really heavy to me.  What do you think about thinning it up?  I know you lose some of the nice intersections you get especially with the # and the !.  Sorry don't mean to step on any toes.


http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/2031/cb031809b.png

Piraja,

I don't complete disagree with you.  You make alot of good points.  The simplicity of the original logo is probably what initially attracted me to this distro.  The name is pretty cool.  I get a little nostalgic when I see something  retro.   However, I am a designer and can't help myself from creating something new.  Of course I would like to see my logo plastered all over the place on every ones desktop (who wouldn't).  At the same time I could respect a decision to go with a plain font, super simple look too.

I've only been using Linux for about a year now and have benefited greatly.  This competition for me is a way of giving back and having fun at the same time. smile