GUI/Kernel Skins

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:55 am

I've only seen a few of these before and they were pretty crappy. Anyone have any real great gui skins/different kernels for Windows? I'm talkin' transparent windows, totally replaced taskbar, completely sleek look and low priority when it comes to resources.

Post by **Eraser** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:20 pm

different kernels for windows... :lol:

Just to clear something up, the kernel is really the core of the operating system, the beating heart so to speak and has nothing to do with the visual representation on the screen. Just so you know

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:25 pm

Oh...I thought you could replace that kernel with a different one? lol I dunno, I'm just talking about these skins that complete alter the whole windows interface.

Post by **4days** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:26 pm

http://www.geoshell.com/

is pretty good.

Post by **netrex** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:30 pm

Heh.. They're using Mambo to run their site and they seem to have removed the copyright notice for it. That's hardly legal

You can't buy your way out of it with Mambo.

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:32 pm

Oh yea! Shells not Kernels haha, ok yea. Checking the link, looks pretty nice.

Post by **plained** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:33 pm

i use default

Post by **4days** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:37 pm

netrex wrote:Heh.. They're using Mambo to run their site and they seem to have removed the copyright notice for it. That's hardly legal You can't buy your way out of it with Mambo.

apparently they're okay with that.

http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=19983

Post by **diego** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:43 pm

4days wrote:http://www.geoshell.com/

is pretty good.

Looks awesome

Post by **netrex** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:47 pm

4days wrote:apparently they're okay with that.

http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=19983

Ok. Didn't know that. Specially since they have a service for reporting sites without it =)

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:08 pm

Ok I installed Geoshell, restarted and all I had access to was my desktop wallpaper i.e. absolutely nothing. Like it failed to load, so I had to restart in safemod and uninstall. wtf?

Post by **PhoeniX** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:02 pm

Uaintseenme wrote:Oh...I thought you could replace that kernel with a different one? lol I dunno, I'm just talking about these skins that complete alter the whole windows interface.

That's linux/unix you're thinking of.

Post by **4days** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:58 pm

Uaintseenme wrote:Ok I installed Geoshell, restarted and all I had access to was my desktop wallpaper i.e. absolutely nothing. Like it failed to load, so I had to restart in safemod and uninstall. wtf?

what happened when you right-clicked. did you see the regular desktop context menu or the geoshell menu?

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:58 pm

neither of them

Post by **4days** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:01 pm

no idea then sorry.

at a guess i'd say it was caused by something between the monitor and the wall behind you.

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:03 pm

The only thing I could see was my desktop wallpaper, it's like neither of my shells felt like loading and left me with a big fat away message.

Post by **4days** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:09 pm

geoshell's worth persevering with if you can get it to work, otherwise check out http://www.shellcity.net for alternatives.

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:21 pm