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02 November 2009
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Epidermis theme manager is an open source GTK application for managing, automatically downloading and installing themes of various types. The latest version 0.4 of Epidermis was released 01 november 2009 , the new version support also changing the Xsplash themes, so changing the look of your boot-up screen is now as simple as changing your wallpaper.
The Epidermis skin handles the following themes,Wallpapers, Metacity window border themes, GTK widget themes ,Icon sets ,GNOME splash images, Mouse cursor themes, Grub bootsplash screen,Usplash bootsplash screen,GDM login screen
Changelog of version 0.4 :
- Added support for Xsplash themes.
- Removed support for Usplash themes.
- Skin previews are displayed.
- Added autogenerate button for Epidermis Creator so that previews of pigments can be automatically created.
- Help message is displayed if no skins are installed.
- License updated to GPLv3.
Download Epidermis
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Comments (7)
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2009-11-02 14:43:36 |SAdministrator| zinovsky
I had the same error when i tried to install the 0.4 version, there is a bug in the new version of Epedermis, the bug has been reported, you can try to install the older version 0.3.1 , this version is working fine
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2009-11-03 14:07:15 |SAdministrator| zinovsky
The bug has been fixed for jaunty, you can install now the version 0.4
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2009-11-03 17:46:10 | Matt - Get good version here
For Ubuntu KK, you will need 0.4.1:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34970828/ epidermis_0.4.1%7E1-0ubuntu1_all.deb
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2009-11-02 21:28:34 | kap4lin - Lnux != Gnome / Gtk
It is nice to use such catchy titles but you may want to tone things down a bit. There is a world (part of Linux) outside Gnome/Gtk, known as "KDE" !!
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Tried to paste the error message but I can't. Says I don't have a grub 2 folder.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/epidermis/ epidermis.py", line 39, ()
# but it throws off pychecker
import const
from const import DEBUG, MY_CACHE_HOME, MY_DATA_HOME, PIGMENT_TYPES
variables: {'const': (None, None)}
File "/usr/share/pyshared/epidermis/const.py", line 55, ()
# is grub2 installed, if yes, don't use themes
__ff = open("/boot/grub/installed-version","r")
__line = __ff.readlines()[0].strip()
variables: {'__ff': (None, None), 'open': ('builtin', )}
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/boot/grub/installed-version'
debuginfo.debuginfo error, traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/pyshared/epidermis/gtkexcepthook.py", line 176, in _info
import debuginfo
File "/usr/share/pyshared/epidermis/debuginfo.py", line 6, in
import const
File "/usr/share/pyshared/epidermis/const.py", line 55, in
__ff = open("/boot/grub/installed-version","r")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/boot/grub/installed-version'
--End of debuginfo traceback.
Help me figure this out.