This is an attempt to create a list of things that makes your desktop look better, or at least, more *Step like.
| Libs // neXtaw | |
| The neXtaw libs
You can use these as a replacement for libXaw. Some programs may need to be re-compiled with them (it's better at least) but most of the standard X11 apps will run with this libs. I had problems with only one and that was XEmacs, but it was no problem to compile it using libneXtaw. |
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| XEmacs with libneXtaw. | |
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| xfontsel with libneXtaw | |
| Libs // TkStep | |
| TkStep can be used to replace the normal Tk for some applications. For some you will need to change the source but a lot of apps can be used by only changing one line. Lot of Tk apps are tcl/Tk scripts so with them it's easy to change their look. For example Filerunner: Change: #! /bin/sh # -*- tcl -*- \ exec wish8.0 $0 wish8.0 $*To: #! /bin/sh # -*- tcl -*- \ exec wishstep8.0 $0 wishstep8.0 $* |
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| Some other apps can be changed in the same way, here are the ones I tested or that are known to work: X-Files TkIRC tkdiff tkcvs That's the Tk apps I'm using, if you use some others and changed them, drop me a note, so that I can add them here. |
X-Files with TkStep |
| Libs // GTKstep | |
| GTKstep is a theme-engine for GTK+. It can be used to change the look of your GTK+ apps to a NeXT-like style. You may also want to have a look at gtk.themes.org. |
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| Apps // XEmacs | |
| Here are some icons made by Jonathan B. Leffert to make your XEmacs have cool buttons. They can be fetched here NeXT_XEmacs |  |
| XEmacs with NeXT-like buttons | |
| Here are also some replacement icons for Gnus, the ultimate mail- and newsclient. They don't look as good as the ones from Jonathan Leffert, but IMO better than the original ones. They can be downloaded here. Gunzip and untar the file somewhere and read the README. Since there is some interest in this icons, I improved them a bit. This time I used only The Gimp to create them. They are a bit smoother and smaller. |
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| The Gnus group-buffer | |
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| The news-summary-buffer. | |
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| The mail-summary-buffer. | |
| Apps // Others | |
| There are of course more apps out there that look *Step-like. Here are some that I found. |
Postilion A mailreader, based on TkRat. Aeleron Another mailreader. aterm The AfterStep Term. |
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