Hey everyone I was wondering how do you spice up your cursors, icons, themes, etc., In particular for desktop environments such as XFCE, Mate. Are there any good repositories to use?
I’ve taken a look at a number of apparently cloned sites like “xfce-look.org”, “kde-look.org”, “gnome-look.org”, but while they seem to show a wide offering of themes, it seems downloading from them is blocked via uBO since it reports a “fp2” fingerprinting script without which apparently downloads are not enabled. Are those sites trustworthy? They seem to be associated to a “OpenDesktop” initiative of which the only reputation I can find is that they were added to EasyList Privacy blocklist.
If there are other alternative hubs or repos from which to theme a distro (as agnostically as posisble) that’d be welcome info.
Cheers. Thanks. Et cetera.
Fingerprinting doesn’t necessarily mean something nefarious, although in this case it’s a little weird. I’ve used those scripts which track users’ mouse movements and clicks so I can replay visits, just to evaluate how the site is working, and uBlock tends to throw a fit when it finds them on my sites (which I guess is what it’s supposed to do, but still doesn’t mean anything bad was going to happen with the data.)
It’s quite weird considering it’s a site for FOSS stuff and thus has a nontrivial, huge overlap with people understanding of basic privacy in modern web. Anyway. At the moment I’m salvaging this by just checking what themes are popular in those sites and searching for their official repos in DDG just in case they have Releases. But it certainly is not the best workflow.
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