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rozniak / xfce-winxp-tc

Windows XP stuff for XFCE
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Any chance for a guide? #282

Open T3R3Z1PYROP3 opened 8 months ago

T3R3Z1PYROP3 commented 8 months ago

The installation of the packages itself were no problem, but as a novice I have genuine trouble just "finding" certain settings (for example the replacement of the panel with the taskband) and the only video I could find on it is outdated? Is this just something I shouldn't approach without a advanced understanding of Linux or is there any chance for a comprehensive guide to this in the near future?

rozniak commented 8 months ago

Unfortunately yeah the guide is a bit old by now, I made a lot more progress on the shell and overall packaging process since then.

At the moment the lack of guide/installer is mainly just down to me prioritising getting more things done, rather than some form of gatekeeping. The idea I have in my head is to work on a proper setup wizard process akin to XP's once a lot of the 'key' things are done ( #81 ) . For instance the network/battery tray icons, explorer, some CPLs like desk.cpl I think - if I make any sort of release/guide, even as a 'preview', I will probs get complaints about things being missing/unfinished and it's not really worth the strife imo.

I'm happy to help people who want to try out the project but are stuck somewhere. :grin:

millionsofplayers commented 6 months ago

what do you do after the things in appearance? my panel doesn't look like the one in the screenshots (same with the start/application menu)

rozniak commented 6 months ago

@millionsofplayers You're probably running xfce4-panel - you'll want to run wintc-taskband.

millionsofplayers commented 6 months ago

how do i change the style of the taskbar

rozniak commented 6 months ago

Are you running wintc-taskband ?

millionsofplayers commented 6 months ago

yes

rozniak commented 6 months ago

Is it not getting themed for you?

millionsofplayers commented 6 months ago

It's luna, but I have the silver theme on

rozniak commented 6 months ago

There is no Silver theme built by this repo yet, you must be using a theme from elsewhere?

millionsofplayers commented 6 months ago

Maybe it's a built in xfce theme or something and I just assumed it was from this repo

rozniak commented 6 months ago

There's only these ones at the moment mate image