when Ritsuko times out

Is a piece of shit. Having multiple GUI toolkits is the nail in the coffin, hammered in before the priest had even thought of mentioning Linux on the desktop. Don’t believe me? Try use OpenBox, and get a panel. Every panel out there relies on GTK except for pypanel, and obviously if I’m not running a GTK desktop environment, GTK apps look shitty. Try it yourself… delete your .xinitrc, run startx, and type in firefox into xterm. If you’re looking for something configurable, think again. There is no solution to the horrible pimply face that is firefox now except perhaps for a hack or two out there that I’m not willing to try.

Windows has spoiled me, I suppose. Spoiled me for a consistent user interface so that whenever I change my msstyles I don’t have to go through the configuration files for my panel, my file manager, and conky. Windows, in many ways, has become the solution for me. Powerful media management capabilities, all the games in the world (Japanese visual novels in particular), and a user interface that can be customized to look campy or bloated or minimal and sleek. bbLean is a total revamp, very awesome.To do the same on Linux, I need a desktop environment. KDE, GNOME, XFCE. But I really don’t like the way these environments are trying to emulate Windows and look candyish and roundish at the same time. But aside from these, I cannot get a consistent desktop environment. With rox, idesk, pypanel and openbox running at the same time, and GTK’s half-assed style, the individual looking for an aesthetically pleasing yet consistent desktop in Linux can only despair.

Lately I’ve taken to running IceWM. Why? Because most of my apps are GTK apps, and pairing an ugly window manager with a slightly more uglier toolkit at least makes things more consistent. IceWM is less ugly because of this one style… I forgot its name though. Hopefully E17 will be finished soon, although the default theme looks like a spittoon.