Re: [arch-general] dark themes (was 2 Killer kde4 dark themes - DR you listening??) [Part Solved]

2010-01-20 Thread Edgar Kalkowski 
Am oder ungefähr am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010, schrieb David C. Rankin:
 On 01/19/2010 01:37 PM, Arvid Picciani wrote:
 
 I stumbled into a part solution to the problem for firefox and other mozilla 
 apps. Basically there is a new type of skin you can use called user space 
 skins that use the 'stylish' addon that allows for the easy changing of the 
 titlebar (and all other aspects) of the browser window.

I also use a dark style sometimes, especially if I work at night. ;)

I found that using QtCurve it is quite easy to make all Qt and Gtk applications 
look nice and dark. For firefox I baked my own little darkening style which may 
be used with the Stylish addon (see below). It is not very fancy but makes most 
sites look quite similar to the original white look. My first problem is with 
sites like google.com who use an image with a hardcoded white background. I 
cannot get that away.

The second problem is with Java applications as they do not respect the colour 
settings of the window manager by default. However you can

$ echo 'swing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel'  
/opt/java/jre/lib/swing.properties

which should make all Java applications use Gtk as their default look and feel 
(and thus respect the Gtk colour settings).

Best greetings!

Edgar


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html {
  background-image: none !important;
}

body {
  background-image: none !important;
  background-color: #302f2f !important;
  border-color: #7fc8ff !important;
  color: #7fc8ff !important;
}

body * {
  background-color: #302f2f !important;
  border-color: #7fc8ff !important;
  color: #7fc8ff !important;
}

code {
  color: grey !important;
}

em {
  color: #00ad00 !important;
  font-weight: normal !important;
}

a:link {
  color: #3f7f5f !important;
  text-decoration: underline !important;
}

a:active {
  color: #3f7f5f !important;
  text-decoration: none !important;
}

a:visited {
  color: grey !important;
  text-decoration: underline !important;
}

a:hover {
  color: #00ad00 !important;
  text-decoration: underline !important;
}

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Re: [arch-general] dark themes (was 2 Killer kde4 dark themes - DR you listening??) [Part Solved]

2010-01-19 Thread David C. Rankin 
On 01/19/2010 01:37 PM, Arvid Picciani wrote:
 On 01/19/2010 08:09 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
 
 sorry for hijacking your thread but speaking of dark themes, I have been
 looking for ages for a nice reverse theme for gtk+ but every single one
 I remember wasn't perfect... Anyone 100% happy with a reverse theme?
 
 i like NOX from murrine-themes-collection, couldnt say if its perfect,
 since i only have like 2 gui apps, but it looks very polished to me.
 Works fine on qt apps too.
 
 And most importantly, how the /heck/ do you handle the *bright* *white*
 pages of the web... I'd tried creating a custom CSS for me, but it broke
 too many pages...
 
 with proper environment light. i find that only unbearable at night when
 i turned the lights off already.
 

I stumbled into a part solution to the problem for firefox and other mozilla 
apps. Basically there is a new type of skin you can use called user space 
skins that use the 'stylish' addon that allows for the easy changing of the 
titlebar (and all other aspects) of the browser window.

The steps are to:

(1) load the stylish extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108

and then, 

(2) either load an existing theme that does what you want or create a new one 
in the new Tools - Addons - User Styles tab. The first theme I downloaded 
sucked. It did what I wanted as far as affecting the font of the addressbar and 
search bar, but looked horrible due to the background drawn being rectangular 
while the normal theme I have being a 'rounded' rectangle. I got rid of the 
background color designations, changed the colors and stripped the superfluous 
stuff out and now I can see the addresses and search phrases perfectly. Man, 
I've been wanting to do something like this for a while.

The original user theme was:

http://userstyles.org/styles/7962

My simpler one follows. I left the original elements in the theme (commented 
out), just in case you want to mess with them. To install it, just click on the 
new User Styles tab, choose 'Write New Style' and then just copy and paste what 
follows into the dialog:

@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);
@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);

/* Addressbar (Normal) foreground/background/font */
.autocomplete-textbox-container   {
//   background-color:#00316E  !important;
//   color:   #00316E  !important;
   color:   #2740FF  !important;
//   font-weight: bold !important;
//   font-size:   8pt  !important;
}

/* Addressbar (Hover) foreground/background/font */
.autocomplete-textbox-container:hover   {
//   background-color:#2740FF  !important;
//   background-color:#00316E  !important;
//   background-color:#E0CB86  !important;
//   color:   #00316E  !important;
//   color:   #2740FF  !important;
//   color:   #4180FF  !important;
//   color:   #55  !important;
   color:   #B01D1D  !important;
}

//#searchbar  .searchbar-box,#searchbar .searchbar-textbox  {
//   background-color:#00316E  !important;
//   color:   #00316E  !important;
//   font-weight: bold !important;
//   font-size:   8pt  !important;
//}  

//#urlbar .autocomplete-textbox-container[focused=true],
//#urlbar[focused=true] {
//   background-color:#00316E  !important;
//   color:   #E0CB86  !important;
//}

//#searchbar .autocomplete-textbox-container:hover {
//   background-color:#2740FF  !important;
//   color:   #2740FF  !important;
//}

//#searchbar .autocomplete-textbox-container {
//   background-color:#00316E  !important;
//   color:   #E0CB86  !important;
//}

Works like a champs. Of course, adjust the two color entries to suit your 
taste. Enjoy :p

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