Making SuSE 10.3 look like Leopard?

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I have tried using the guide here, but in OpenSuSE 10.3 GNOME 2.20, there is a difference in terms of set up. Could anybody give me some other guide to how to make my Linux box look like Leopard?

EDIT - I also want to point out that my Linux box is fairly old (P3 550 with 8 MB ATI Card), so the fancy effects won't work.

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Why are you on SuSE btw?

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Bit of a silly question, everyone has their favorite distro, you could ask everyone why, I guess it comes down to personal preference.

I've used many distro's in the past but found that I prefer the ones that are more aimed towards the GNOME interface, SuSE was nice but obviously aimed for KDE users.

As for the original question, there are GTK2 themes out there that replicate the Mac OSX look, OSX is built on *nix so it can't be too hard to get it close.

If you knew a thing or two about coding you could code your Linux desktop to look exactly like OSX.

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As for the original question, there are GTK2 themes out there that replicate the Mac OSX look, OSX is built on *nix so it can't be too hard to get it close.

Similarity in kernel tech doesn't mean that the UIs are similar in tech, either. I don't even know how you get to that idea.

OSX has its own UI subsystem that doesn't even rely on X11.

Anyway, you can hammer Gnome into looking largely like OSX, but most of the theme creators cloning the themes never get it right. I've yet to see an OSX window frame done 100% right (as in perfect clone), and this is the simplest part of a theme.

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Similarity in kernel tech doesn't mean that the UIs are similar in tech, either. I don't even know how you get to that idea.

OSX has its own UI subsystem that doesn't even rely on X11.

Anyway, you can hammer Gnome into looking largely like OSX, but most of the theme creators cloning the themes never get it right. I've yet to see an OSX window frame done 100% right (as in perfect clone), and this is the simplest part of a theme.

I know that, but you can easily get GNOME to resemble OSX, it has the same sort of structure regarding the menu's and menu layouts you can achieve by default.

If someone made a theme that was an exact replica of the official UI it would look damn good on Linux, you could swap the distro logo for an apple logo etc.

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Bit of a silly question, everyone has their favorite distro, you could ask everyone why, I guess it comes down to personal preference.

I've used many distro's in the past but found that I prefer the ones that are more aimed towards the GNOME interface, SuSE was nice but obviously aimed for KDE users.

As for the original question, there are GTK2 themes out there that replicate the Mac OSX look, OSX is built on *nix so it can't be too hard to get it close.

If you knew a thing or two about coding you could code your Linux desktop to look exactly like OSX.

Suse has a great gnome implementation, better than most gnome distros, All the applications are made and customize to look completely integrated and everything just looks very polished. They have also been moving towards gnome since novell nought them.

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Anyway, you can hammer Gnome into looking largely like OSX, but most of the theme creators cloning the themes never get it right. I've yet to see an OSX window frame done 100% right (as in perfect clone), and this is the simplest part of a theme.

I am not looking for an exact replica. I can't even get the effects to work too well on my 2-year-old laptop, which will crash if I try to use an Emerald theme.

It's been a while since I've used SuSE. I'm sure I remember something in it that used / was aimed at KDE, maybe the control panel or something.

Since OpenSuSE 10.1 (or 10.2?), in GNOME, the Control Center looked sort of Mac-ish.

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