Fitting the battle of life

I just can’t seem to get a desktop I like at the moment. I’ve tried different icon sets, different themes, different wallpapers, combinations of all three, and still can’t get a final one settled on. I’ve trawled gnome-look.org for the ‘right’ look for me. I’ve tried dark themes, picking colours myself and even (heavens no!) the default Ubuntu theme.

I don’t want my computer to look like XP, Vista or Mac OSX, which means half the themes on gnome-look are unsuitable. Nor do I want the default Ubuntu look, being bored of it after about two seconds. At the moment I have the default look + different wallpaper + transparent panels, but the window decorations don’t fit with this.

It was all easier on Windows. There were three themes, as far as I remember, only two of which anyone ever used (the silvery one and the blue one; there was also the ‘classic’ style). Now, with appearance not limited to tweaking around in the registry (which I was never going to do), I am spoilt for choice.

How I yearn for the days when choices were made for me.