DarkCarnival Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Motivations for having a look-alike instead of the real thing OSX is arguably a thing of beauty to look at and I must admit that I'm somewhat envious of the consistency and looks of the Mac OS. However, I don't believe the system itself is worth much for me as Linux is better for server-behaviour and Mac OSX is pretty much a leech in terms of open-source applications (Wine, Mono etc). Most of all I hate the fact that the hardware support is crappy (face it, that's why you can't build your own computer, they simply hate to expose the lack of support!) Aaaanyway.. That's a sidestep. Linux often looks a little bit ugly and so a guy has tried to address it and wrote an excellent guide which is hosted on his personal blog: Lauri Taimila's Website - Linux desktop imitating OSX So now one can have a somewhat OSX-like desktop and retain the advantages of Linux The guide itself is written with Ubuntu in mind (which is probably the most popular distro now anyway) but with a bit of elbow grease this should be applicable for most distros. One thing though, he's unsure as to whether or not he can release a set of OSX icons and so I took the liberty of digging up a set: OsX_MoD Icon Set Personally I have a few problems with some of the steps (mostly because I'm on Debian Testing) but if someone manages to follow the guide through then you'll have a neat desktop ! EDIT: Just to avoid any misconceptions, once more. This is *not* my doing, but that of Lauri Taimila. And yes, it looks quite good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 I am extremely impressed. I have never seen such a well done OS X look-alike theme for Linux. It's actually so good, that it nearly fooled me into thinking that was OS X! Congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 woah wonderfull! time for a new look for my gentoo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 This can easily be done with something like ksmoothdock, OSX icon set from kde-look.org, baghira theme (You can use a beryl/emerald them too). There is also a way to make kde use a menubar with no third party apps. Just set your comp type in kcontrol to macintosh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sev7en Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 It looks........ like OSX for real! Awesome work, congrats to Lauri! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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