Win98 desktop look and feel, where to get the theme?

[Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)]

As some of you know I am migrating my workstations from Windows98 to RH9. Is
there a theme for either KDE, GNOME, or any other environment, that would make
it look like and feel like it is still the M$ Windows98?

Apolinaras "Apollo" Sinkevicius
Carmel Music & Entertainment, LLC
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[Michael Kalus]

I only know in SuSE but there is a theme in KDE called "Redmond" which is to
my knowledge the closest you get to the "Windows Eperience" (No BSDs
included though) ;)

M.

Post by Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)
As some of you know I am migrating my workstations from
Windows98 to RH9. Is there a theme for either KDE, GNOME, or
any other environment, that would make it look like and feel
like it is still the M$ Windows98?

[Bret Hughes]

Post by Michael Kalus
I only know in SuSE but there is a theme in KDE called "Redmond" which is to
my knowledge the closest you get to the "Windows Eperience" (No BSDs
included though) ;)
M.

Someone ought to write a BSD screen save to aid in increasing the
comfort level of those newly migrated users to linux. Should helpthem
feel right at home :)

Bret

[Javier Gostling]

Post by Bret Hughes
Someone ought to write a BSD screen save to aid in increasing the
comfort level of those newly migrated users to linux. Should helpthem
feel right at home :)

There is. Run xscreensaver-demo and check the BSOD screen saver. It sports
death screens for several different OS's, including Windows 3.1/NT/2000,
MacOS, BSD, Linux and others.

Cheers,

[Bill Tangren]

Post by Michael Kalus
I only know in SuSE but there is a theme in KDE called "Redmond" which is to
my knowledge the closest you get to the "Windows Eperience" (No BSDs
included though) ;)
M.

Post by Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)
As some of you know I am migrating my workstations from
Windows98 to RH9. Is there a theme for either KDE, GNOME, or
any other environment, that would make it look like and feel
like it is still the M$ Windows98?

For KDE, go to Preferences->Desktop Settings Wizard

There is a choice of system behavior of KDE, UNIX, Windows, and Mac OS.
Farther along, there is the Redmond theme 'A style from the northwest of
the USA'.

Don't know about GNOME, as I don't use it.

Bill

[T. Ribbrock]

Post by Michael Kalus
I only know in SuSE but there is a theme in KDE called "Redmond" which is to
my knowledge the closest you get to the "Windows Eperience" (No BSDs
included though) ;)

Yeah, including a BSD would indeed be rather silly, unless you want to
build a dual boot machine...

(Hint: ITYM BSOD, not BSD - which is another Unix-OS...)

Cheerio,

Thomas ;-)
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[Håkon Eriksen]

Post by Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)
As some of you know I am migrating my workstations from Windows98 to
RH9. Is there a theme for either KDE, GNOME, or any other environment,
that would make it look like and feel like it is still the M$
Windows98?

Have you looked at Fvwm95? It contains a few hacks to make Fvwm quite
Windows95-like. I don't really know if it's close enough for your users,
the only thing I can tell you is that they'll easily be able to tell
that it's not the real thing. But if you can tell them that it's not
Windows, but it acts just like it, perhaps that will be good enough. The
page for it appears to be down, so you're just going to have to google
for it.

[Matt Ryanczak]

Gnome / GTK+ also come with a theme called redmond95 that might be what
you are looking for.....

Post by HÃ¥kon Eriksen

Post by Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)
As some of you know I am migrating my workstations from Windows98 to
RH9. Is there a theme for either KDE, GNOME, or any other environment,
that would make it look like and feel like it is still the M$
Windows98?

Have you looked at Fvwm95? It contains a few hacks to make Fvwm quite
Windows95-like. I don't really know if it's close enough for your users,
the only thing I can tell you is that they'll easily be able to tell
that it's not the real thing. But if you can tell them that it's not
Windows, but it acts just like it, perhaps that will be good enough. The
page for it appears to be down, so you're just going to have to google
for it.
--
- håkon

[Michael Kalus]

Post by Bret Hughes
Someone ought to write a BSD screen save to aid in increasing
the comfort level of those newly migrated users to linux.
Should helpthem feel right at home :)

Well there is the screensaver that re-enacts wonderful crash screens like
the Amiga's "Guru Meditation" thing, comes also with core dumps and BSOD ;)

M.

[Bret Hughes]

Post by Michael Kalus

Post by Bret Hughes
Someone ought to write a BSD screen save to aid in increasing
the comfort level of those newly migrated users to linux.
Should helpthem feel right at home :)

Well there is the screensaver that re-enacts wonderful crash screens like
the Amiga's "Guru Meditation" thing, comes also with core dumps and BSOD ;)
M.

I guess I am behind the curve.

Bret