How to Install Gimmix Music Player in Ubuntu Linux?

If you love the now a bit forgotten yet easy to use and simple music players written in C and GTK+2 toolkit that has a GUI similar to the Winamp (what is that? ;-) ), then you'll love Gimmix. If you want a fast loading, effective and fully featured application, then this is pretty awesome.

Don't be fooled by its simplicity since as mentioned it has built in features that most other similar application come with nonetheless.

Few of the main features...

*. Elegant and simple GUI. 

*. Has a Library browser.

*. Search for files within the Library.

*. Amazon album cover art support.

*. ID3 Tag editing (version 2) ability.

*. Automatic lyrics fetching.

*. Switch between compact and full views.

*. Sys tray icon + notification ability (those pop-ups which display currently playing file duration, etc)... are just a few to mention.

Although I don't think it's in active development these days but seriously the application itself downloading size is about 192Kb and it is well known for its ability to use less system resources (RAM) which is very important for dudes like me who has old GNU/Linux Laptop or PCs :).

If you use Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, 10.10 or 10.04 versions then you can install Gimmix 0.5.7.1 by using the below command in your Terminal.

sudo apt-get install gimmix

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Oxymentary - KDE Oxygen Icon Theme for Gnome (GTK+) Desktop!

The sad truth about KDE and Gnome is that they belong to a totally different worlds of their own (even though they try hard to make them look like friends... which is a bit sad actually). But despite all that, we should appreciate the work that's been done between these two rivals to make it easier for the users to use software written in GTK+ and Qt toolkits without much of a hassle.

Thanks to these efforts we can use applications that are written in both these different toolkits in both desktops including their icons/theme engines, etc. Anyway, I don't know about you guys, but I've always been amazed by KDE's artwork!. I mean from the themes to the ability to actually control the environment, KDE is an excellent desktop.

With the introduction of Qt4 and KDE4... the new artwork (icons and the mouse pointers, etc) was called Oxygen and they look totally gorgeous as well. Sadly, we couldn't use them in Gnome (other than you run KDE apps in Gnome). But recently, someone from Gnome-look.org has created a Oxygen icon theme for Gnome 2.+ called Oxymentary.

But remember the icon theme is not a complete set, yet. For instance, currently it does not have all the replaceable icons for applications under Gnome desktop. If you have installed the elementary theme, then whenever the Oxymentary cannot find appropriate icons, it'll use the elementary icons instead.

If you want to give them a try, then please download from here. Then simply drag-n-drop them in "Themes" window or extract the content to /usr/share/icons/ and then choose them from the "Themes" (should be looking for the name "Oxymentary"). Enjoy!.

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