Re-make/Re-model

I've never been one to remodel my computer desktop with loud colors/garish fonts/etc. I've always used a Mac, and my current Mac has just a plain yellow background ("Sunny"). I've installed Kaleidoscope in the past, but I always got tired of it and just went back to the standard Platinum theme.

Imagine my surprise, then, when the other night I installed Redhat Linux on our Intel machine, and since then have been experimenting with huge background images, fonts, colors, themes, etc. I installed a newer version of Enlightenment and I went wild.

Mena says it's kind of sad, and I tend to agree.

BUT: there's a reason for it, and I've figured it out today. The reason I keep messing about with backgrounds/themes/etc. in X (and, for that matter, why I always tended to do the same in Windows), is because the defaults are just so damn ugly. I've never seen an uglier desktop than the default I was given with Gnome (this is on a Redhat 6.2 install; it's certainly possible that the Gnome desktop has improved since then). It had this horrible blocky font, and these ugly gray buttons, and these ugly icons, and this drab blue background. It looked sort of Windows 3.1-ish.

So there it is.

And by the way, I still haven't come up with a look I'm happy with.