Intrigue Icon Set by Timothy Edmund Crosley

I have probably 15 icon sets in KDE. Since I can be a little OCD, it is necessary to have this many just to be on the safe side. Then one day I stumbled upon an interesting icon set called intrigue. It was definitely intriguing. Actually I would call it amazing but I’m not the author. Maybe even called cure for OCD. As often as I change my desktop (one of my favorite features of any GNU/Linux Distro) I cannot take my eyes off of this icon set. I give it two thumbs up all the way.

So, I decided to notify the author and found out there may be an updated version soon (no, I cannot tell you when) which I was excited about. But, how can you update an already perfect icon set? Maybe add more icons? That would be great, in fact let me make a few suggestions to the author on some suggested icons.

• Firefox
• Open Office
• Xchat
• Opera
• Compiz Fusion
• Thunderbird
• Emerald
• VLC

Hopefully I am not being to demanding but these are clearly just suggestions for some new icons. I’ve put the screenshots (at the top) if anyone would like a closer look at this wonderful icon set. Also, download it by clicking on the banner at the top of this post. I think everyone will be pleased with it.

Distro Reviews

I tried the latest openSUSE today and was highly disappointed. First, it took forever for the livecd to load, then once the familiar KDE desktop appeared, it took forever for me to access the desktop. When I say forever, I am probably exaggerating some but it took longer than I had expected any distro to take. I understand this is a livecd and will probably only take half the time if it was installed directly on the hard drive but let’s face it, we all base our decision on that livecd. Once I could access the desktop it took a very long time to do anything else. Nothing came preconfigured. In fact, the distro recognized my sound card but I had to configure it.

One of the amazing things I continue to like about PCLinuxOS, is it’s ease to navigate, it’s speed and it’s reliability. Thus far, the only device I have not been able to use is my PVR. That’s ok, I plan on giving it to my friend who still primarily uses Windows.

Overall, I was disappointed that it took me 30 minutes or more to download the 4.7 gb live version of openSUSE only to be presented with just another distro. Come on people, there is nothing better than PCLinuxOS and hopefully we can end this distro decision after all.