The single most significant change between Alpha2 and Alpha3 is the replacement of the clearlooks engine with the latest release of murrine. As the scrollbars and scale widgets exert a great influence on the appearance of the theme, I decided to stay with the "pixmap" engine to render these widgets as well as the handlebox and stratus grip. As far as I can tell performance is still very good.
One of the driving factor of this theme is to make it as dark as possible without losing black as a colour. I didn't want to use gray as it presents "blue-ish" and decided to use a colour which has a slight brown tint. The metacity frame is themed to match and the outcome is a blended appearance top to bottom. One thing I observed using a 1024x768 resolution is most applications run full screen. In my opinion this theme displays well at this resolution providing the user with a pleasant uniform presentation. Staying true to Ubuntu, the colour orange is used as much as possible. Although this theme is configurable via the gnome user preferences, I fully admit it contains hard coded elements. In crafting the gtkrc I attempted to provide as many comments as possible to aide other GTK theme developers. http://www.projwiki.com/index.cgi/CategoryImpressionAlpha3GtkRc What's left to do? I believe the widget hierarchy of the gtkrc file is good as every program I tested displayed as expected. Possible changes include colour adjustments or abandoning the pixmap engine using murrine to render the scrollbar and scale widgets. If you install the svn132 murrine engine existing murrine themes such as Human will break. :( Check it out! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/Impression John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
