On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:02 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Conn, > > > > On Friday 30 May 2008 00:29:07 Conn wrote: > >> Ken, > >> > >> Here's my first attempt at modifying the new theme. Screenshot and > >> gtkrc attached. > >> > >> Some of the changes (I don't remember them all): > >> 1. Readded toolbar and menubar separators > >> 2. Darkened menubar to 90% of background > >> 3. Darkened "active" notebook tabs > >> 4. Darkened menu background to 90% of background > >> 5. Changed base colour to something closer to the dark brown background > >> 6. Changed radio and checkbar colour to display as white, and > >> highlight to base colour > >> 7. Removed old hack to "fix" metacity's colour (i.e. the mix > >> statements I put in the code after finding the Gnome Appearances bug). > >> I assume the metacity theme will change drastically, so it's best to > >> remove the hack to avoid future confusion. > >> 8. Selected items in menus now display white text > >> 9. Added new murrine engine parameters "colorize_scrollbar" and > >> "sliderstyle", and enabled both. I removed depreciated > >> "scrollbar_color", and note that the engine is warning us that > >> "hilight_ratio" is deprecated, so we may need to remove those lines > >> later. > >> 10. Changed selected item text to white > >> 11. Probably more things I forgot... > > > > I agree with pretty much everything you say :-) I began hacking on the > gtk > > color definitions last night as well. One of the challenges is going to > be > > creating work arounds for dark color themeing bugs in specific apps. > > > >> Some observations for the future: > >> 1. Perhaps we need to change the orange colour, perhaps it would be > >> better to be darkened. > >> 2. I set the nautilus-location colour simply to @selected_bg_color. > >> For Human-Murrine I used a mix statement to lighten the orange a > >> little so that it blended better with murrine's glaze, but it won't > >> work well with the new colourscheme. We can change this later, > >> especially after any changes to the selected background (i.e. orange) > >> colour. > > > > The bright orange seems out of place on a dark background. I think we > > would be > > better off going with something less contrasty. > > > >> 3. Of course, the metacity theme doesn't look very nice anymore. I > >> suggest we adopt a similar theme to UbuntuStudio, but use a darker > >> brown rather than black. Oh, we could arrange it so that the inactive > >> window is 90% shaded to the background colour, so it will blend with > >> the darkened menubar - that would be a nice effect. > >> > >> That's all I can think of for now! > >> Conn > > > > -- > > Ken > > > > -- > I believe that the contrasts must not break too much. > Víctor. > > > ubuntu-art mailing list > > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > > > > > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art >
BTW, do you know why switching a GTK theme to murienne kills firefox? -- Rita Rudner - "Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times."
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