I am running Ubuntu 11.10 and I would like to use pd-vanilla but I like working in pd-extended's GUI. I would like to add the fancier patch cables, boxes and fonts that pd-extended has to pd-vanilla.

Has anyone had any success transplanting pd-extended GUI files on to pd-vanilla?
Or, does any one know of any kind of GUI mods to pd that effect the look of the cables and Boxes?

Thanks in advance.

Mmm .. I think I know what you mean..

Can't you just use pd-extended, but stop all libraries loading at start up?

ie. Go into Menu->path and Menu->startup, and delete everything

..probably a good idea to make a backup, though..
on Linux, the local config file is .pdextended in home directory and global is something like /usr/lib/pd-extended/default.pdextended

Well, one of the issues I have with pd-extended is that it has some ugly installation issues on Ubuntu 11.10, some of the dependencies are from an earlier version of Ubuntu.

I will resort to that if I have to but I thought it would be more fun to first try to customize the vanilla GUI.

Interesting project .. the furthest I've got in that line, is to change the background colour of default patches, to cut the glare..

In file pd.tk:-

proc pdtk_canvas_new {name width height geometry editable} {

. . .
canvas $name.c -width $width -height $height -background beige \
. . .

I have an older style moniter, bright white --> aargh! .. hey ho