Last night I got a sudden urge to make my Linux setup more like Amiga in terms of look and feel and (partially) functionality after looking at some Workbench screenshots.
First I replaced my backdrop, and then I downloaded a few archives of Amiga PNG icons (Gnome sees ".info" files with a PNG icon as just a PNG image and takes no notice of the other stuff in it) and started modifying the theme I use to make use of them.
I then installed gnome-globalmenu. From before I use a narrow, menu bar like panel at the top of the screen, so that gives me a global menu bar for most Gnome apps, though it's visibile all the time. It also has the advantage of removing the menu bars from Nautilus which is the only app I use that doesn't have an option to turn off the per-window menu bar without it.
Next I'm thinking of finding or adjusting the window imagery to feel more like Workbench or alternatively install Amiwm, but I've not used Amiwm in a decade so I'm not sure if it'll have the features I want. Another alternative is E17 (Enlightenment 0.16 at least had support for Amiga-like screen-dragging when I used that back in '99). I want a "cross" of 3.x and 4.x look - I don't quite like the standard 4.x look but I want a slightly more modern / metallic look than 3.x - sort of a more subtle 4.x
No screenshots yet, but maybe I post some this weekend.
Anyone got any other good suggestions for other changes to make? (other than running AmigaOS - I do that too, in UAE, as well as run AROS, but neither are quite there yet for me to replace my Linux usage yet, so this is a substitute...) Or gone through the same exercise of making another OS look and behave more like AmigaOS?