Hello all, I've been trying hard lately to get a vista style going with gnome using compiz & kiba-dock. I've really been let down with the icons though, here are my results:

1.) Basic setup:
http://www.cwkx.com/images/Vista.png

2.) It's compiz
http://www.cwkx.com/images/Dark.png

3.) Showing all:
http://www.cwkx.com/images/ShowAll.png

4.) As you can see the icons are still from the Tango theme - the main let down:
http://www.cwkx.com/images/Zoom.png

5.) Unfolding like vista alt+tab
http://www.cwkx.com/images/Unfolded.png

Are there any icons that I could use to increase the vista style?
This is as far as I've managed with GNOME - does anyone have any further ideas on methods of improvement?

Edit: I used;

1. GTK2 Clearlooks-DarkNice theme from gnomeart.org
2. A self modded DarkGlassVista CGWD Theme (removed light over buttons and changed shadow)
3. Tango Iconset *shudder*
4. Kiba-dock with initial settings changed so it has a gradient background with black colour scheme

Here's another cube perspective:

http://www.cwkx.com/images/Cube.png

Any comments/suggestions appreciated.

So is 'Compiz; the option that gets you the cube effect? XGL looks so much simmilar in this respect, is it the same?

Anyway, good work, it looks great

Compiz is the window manager supporting OpenGL acceleration. XGL is the X server architecture which uses compiz.

The compiz-plugins package contains the option to get the cube effect. (Also contains many other plugins - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz )

Well done, it really looks like Vista style.

(But if you can reduce the picture's size, maximum on this forum is 600*400 or something like this. )

640*480 to be precise.  
Please use thumbnails.  

That looks great.  
I will install Linux (Ubuntu) soon and think I'll try all that.
This is very cute.  

Thanks.

You seem not to have activated Blur effect, why wouldn't you do it ? I find it looks pretty nice

For the Vista-like icons, you can find quite much of them on the Web if you search a bit

Nice work

French for moa18e : Tu pouvais pas mettre une mignature gros bêta ?   . Au fait je suis revenu sous Ubuntu.
English for CWKX : It's beautiful ! I love Xgl !  

Thanks guys for the supportive comments

I hadn't hosted the pics with imageshack so didn't know how to make thumbnails - plus I've never used invision power board before so am not sure what tags to use (if there are any?) thus just changed the pics to links. - Sorry that they broke your rules ... *thinks of an excuse* ... i'm new here!  

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For those die-hard vista theme fans who don't like the "all black" style (I find it easy on the eyes and it reflects the simplistic approach of gnome well) and want something a little closer to the vista panels , you can get the "LiNsta2" pack from gnome-look to create something that looks like this:

moa18e: Sorry for not enabling the blur effect! There was a patch for it which accidently crashed compiz and I hadn't re-enabled it since. I'll put it back on after checking what went wrong from compiz.net.

PS The resolutions different because I tried this on my desktop  

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If anyone wants an ubuntu or gentoo HOWTO as to how to get it looking that way and running as you would expect it, then it'd be very simple for me to create one. (There are some minor tweaks that I didn't mention such as that the dark gtk2 theme must be installed by root and the normal user so that programs such as synaptic and gnome-theme-editor are themed as well as non-root programs). Kiba-dock is also very simple to self-tweak but some people find installing it tricky due to it being in such early development.

Comblé ? Tu n'as plus qu'à éditer ton post puisque maintenant c'est chez [i]toi[/i ]que ça déforme

Tu aurais pu me le dire directement sur MSN, mais enfin, content de te retrouver sur la banquise :^^:

FF:Files not found on the server.
Are the links broken?

I guess they are - the post was posted on 2006