WINE – love it or loathe it you probably have it installed for one reason or another (‘must have’ Windows application or because of Google Picasa etc).
It also tends to look butt ugly, so here are a few quick tips on how to get Wine looking that weenie bit nicer in Ubuntu.
- Use a windows theme file.
WINE does support using Windows themes so you can easily install the blue crayola look from XP in WINE and your apps will look like their in Windows XP. I found this solution to be a good compromise if eye candy is really important BUT i found it slowed some of my applications down to a crawl on a 3.0ghz dual core 4GB RAM system….
Windows XP Theme – (link since broken)
(Many other Windows themes work such as the Microsoft Energy Blue Theme and popular themese such as ‘Zune’ etc)
To install just open up WINE, choose the ‘Desktop integration’ tab, theme, Install Theme and locate the .msstyle file. Simple!
2. Make It Match!
Whilst there is still not any de facto way to get your Windows Apps to match your GTK themes, the following tips/apps make it pretty near close!
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Unzip both of the folders you just downloaded and install them both by clicking the set up by following the prompts, etc as you would any normal windows application.
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Change all of your WINE fonts to match those you use in your normal Ubuntu desktop (System > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts). So if you use ‘Droid Sans’ as your document font in Ubuntu, set ‘Droid Sans’ as the equivalent in WINE.
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You can manually modify your colours using the RGB section under the example window for a more perfect match.