Archbang in the Press from May 2012

pablokal · 2012-05-05 06:17:15

Heisse Open: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/ … 65593.html

pablokal · 2012-06-01 02:52:06

http://www.linuxandlife.com/2012/05/arc … eview.html

About the looks:

Besides the tint2 panel and the wallpaper, everything seems to be the same as in the former releases of Archbang. Although we have a new GTK theme but it's still a dark theme and honestly, it's still not as beautiful as many other themes you can find on Gnome-look. ( I hope someday ArchBang can come with a light GTK theme by default ). The icon set is still the old boring Gnome icon theme. The conky is still very simple with monotonic lines to show the system performance and the shortcut keys. All in all, in my opinion, you will need to do some decoration works to make your ArchBang desktop look good.

Tmho the looks always have been a weak point of AB, but my taste on looks is not mainstream, so that the best thing I can think of is to propose something like asking arpinux to do our artwork.
Who makes the most beautiful, quiet set ups. He is retiring from Livarp and maybe would like a nice little project: http://arpinux.org/x/doku.php/start:news

A nice, friendly and observant review:

If you have used ArchBang before, you can see there is a change in the philosophy of ArchBang. The ArchBang team now favors popular and user-friendly applications instead of fancy ones like jumanji, zathura, geeqie .. which used to be put into the former versions of ArchBang. I think it is a wise decision to attract new users because most people would prefer the applications they are accustomed to.

Conclusion
There are many opposite opinions about ArchBang Linux, some hate it and some love it. ArchBang is like a Jack-of-all-trades linux distro. It isnt as advanced as Gentoo or Arch Linux and it is certainly not as user-friendly as Ubuntu or Linux Mint. However, ArchBang is still worth-checking out because of many reasons . If you are an unexperienced Linux user who wants to try Arch Linux, you can try ArchBang first to learn how everything works. If you are looking for a light-weight linux distro for a netbook or an old computer, ArchBang will do a very great job. And if you are someone who wants to try something new, just check ArchBang and it may become your new favorite distro.

That AB being an option for an inexperienced Linux user trying Arch, is something our team doesn't agree with.

Mr Green · 2012-06-01 04:42:45

'Chrome looks good but it does not make it go fast'

I take the blame for dropping the ball on the theme front in May release, theme and icons are a problem. If you dig below the looks which are easily changed post install then you still have a usable fast light distro.

Overall look of ArchBang does need work

I will look after the engine

handy · 2012-06-01 06:31:35

It doesn't matter what you do with the theme, you will get detractors.

It is NOT hard to install a different pre-made theme.

So if it isn't already there, then it would be very useful I'm sure, to have a how-to that included links to the major theme houses available in the wiki.

I spent a day stuffing around modifying a theme that I downloaded from somewhere on the web, after which I saved the theme in multiple places in an effort to save myself ever having to waste all that time reinventing the wheel in the future. (I don't have experience modifying existing theme's so it is that much more time consuming.)

Last edited by handy (2012-06-01 06:32:08)

oliver · 2012-06-01 07:02:04

pablokal wrote:

That AB being an option for an inexperienced Linux user trying Arch, is something our team doesn't agree with.

I kind of like the way Arch puts it: The distro is user-centric rather than user-friendly

scjet · 2012-08-29 16:42:43

yep, start with "Back in Black", and the User "goes-from-it", from there.
But geezus, I really like that "Voyager" Conky-control(s)/alternatives. It's quite nice.
Anyway, "User-Centirc" is what they need.
(aka): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cqU2GjYw8M

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