technoshaun

I am supporter of the HeliOS project, as well as a owner/operator of a HeliOS franchise. I made the GnoMenu in the realization that there are no children orientated menus for GnoMenu. Its a fairly common oversight in the Computer Industry, actually. So I asked myself what would my five year old son like in a menu for Linux? Thus came about the idea to use an over sized Home Icon as the menu background, while using Icons orientated towards children using them. The design is simplistic on purpose. Kids can get easily overwhelmed by bells and whistles making it hard to use the menu. So I made it minimalistic. However, it still has stuff no chi

I have to say I am becoming a big fan of vStyler's work. The menu pattern he created for his Odyssey theme is way cool. Even though the theme itself was not to my taste I liked that start menu. So I cleaned it up and put my own twist to it. The hardest part about the theme was getting the Icon Labels to display. (Computer, Documents, etcetera.) I tried having the labels be a part of the buttons but I couldn't get it display no matter what I did. So I added them into the XML code for the menu theme as separate code lines as Labels. That actually worked much better than I expected, and keeps the labels strictly as labels, not clickable items.

Made many cosmetic improvements to the Prowler GnoMenu Theme. I am very happy with how it came out. James is still plugging along with the Metacity and Gtk theme for Prowler. There are a couple of things that need to be done to the current look that are immediately obvious but its coming along nicely.