Ikaruga Yer Desktop

Woohoo... pincermovement of a persuative tactic from
my two buddies here. Yep, it's been a while since I contributed
to this wonderful sensefree thing called blogging.
BTW: should you be a member of the Reformed Church of God,
you shouldn't be reading this too:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/10/god_blog/
Everyone else, enjoy my 'mindless blather' from hereon out.

And today, I gonna talk about a little fashional thingy of mine,
mainly: My two PCs... yep, one is not enough, two are just better.
But... one needs themes to feel at home right? I mean, there's
a reason why Windows gets glossier with every version and
people put more and more effort into getting rid of that gloss.
Now, back to my two PCs... what do we have.. one PC uses a
black mouse and keyboard, one uses a white mouse and
keyboard (Both apple on top of that,nifty hardware, really....).
http://www.nerdcave.de/razor/cam1.jpg
http://www.nerdcave.de/razor/cam2.jpg

Now... black and white, black and white... where do I
remember that from...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikaruga
Yep, that's where I know it from. So we have a
buddhism inspired game that features a ship named
Ikaruga that switches between black and white...
I guess the semantics are pretty clear.

Now... since Windows sux and Linux rules, I needed
GNOME themes. First on the list:

Background images!
http://ikaruga.co.uk/ happily provides those plus
some wicked movies from the

"WOAH-that-surely-requires-japanese-genes-in-your-bloodline"-type

and the soundtrack
(Hossa, love Faith).

Next thing: Windowcontent and Windowborders!
http://art.gnome.org/themes/gtk2/567
Milk 2.0 Popular on Mac, nice on GNOME.
Nice set for the white Ikaruga.

Now to the black.
http://art.gnome.org/themes/metacity/1231
Black, plain and simple.
http://art.gnome.org/themes/gtk2/1163
gm-looks for the windowcontent.

Next thing: ICONS!
Matching the two types of lasers from the
white and black Ikaruga. Blue and Red.
http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon/327
Snow-Apple for the blue.
http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon/353
Cherry-Sod for the red.

And the final thing: Cursors!
There's a beautiful cursor-set and guess what...
it comes in black and white:)
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=38459
Chameleon Xcursors, easily installed with gcursor.

Now we got a black and a white theme. Hossa.
And way less racistic than sony could do with
their PSP too. Oh, whoops, I guess that's one of
those things 'that should only be done in private,
or, frankly, should not be said or done at all'.
Well, I sure feel good:)

http://www.nerdcave.de/razor/whitess.png
http://www.nerdcave.de/razor/blackss.png