I was going through some old screenshots and found this .. anyone remember this? https://cloud.google.com/find-a-partner/partner/neverware
I even set it up like Ubuntu like the early Bluefin images, haha.
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What would be really cool is to have some e.g. ujust command, that you could quickly change different whole look and feel. Not just background wallpaper but whole designs like your desktop image. For example: ujust ubuntu-look to get something like your image above (this includes violet color, background image, icons on left…), then do ujust dinosaur-look and get something like Blufin and ujust aurora-look and you get Aurora look, ujust pinky-unicorn-look for girls, ujust fast-and-furions-look for boys to get some car theme, ujust windows-look to get Windows like look etc.
There are plenty of cool designs at Post your desktop screenshot and I think it would be fantastic to just get exactly the same look with one ujust command (or something - GUI app would be better to get preview before applying).
Usually hard core programmers and sysadmins are terrible at GUI look and design, because they spend 99% of there time in background activities. But there are some artistic users, that have great imagination… and that are the users I am looking at.
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Is this the precursor to ChromiumOS omg! I’ve read about it but I’ve never seen it
Maybe there is some inspiration inside/at the Omakub project - just Say No to whatever else DHH is up to…
Was just thinking something along the same lines last week. At least for the GNOME-based images, it would be interesting to test a Zorin-style layout picker. As you select one of the custom appearances, the different extensions used to create that appearance toggle on/off. It’s super snazzy!
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Maybe we can borrow stillControl from StillHQ and rename it uControl or bluecontrol. 
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TIL about stillOS! Yes, that stillControl looks exactly like the Zorin appearance GUI.
Edit - Looks like the ArcMenu extension is what they’re using:
I think Nobara also has or had one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mahyln1abs
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Hello, I am the developer of stillOS. stillControl is developed right now for stillOS in mind only, and in the future there were going to be some things added to stillControl that pull in other-stillOS built dependencies. If you guys are interested in a similar feature, I am willing to develop a base version of stillControl that could be called sbControl or something (still+blue Control) and than I could just fork the base version to add the stillOS specific stuff. Otherwise, if you want to do something on your own and have any questions on how I built the layout switcher part, let me know and I’ll help out!
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off-topic: it’s 2025 , we thankfully don’t have to confine boys and girls to cars and unicorns each anymore :]