On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Who <mailfor...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Nathan Beaumont <nathanb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Sam <shadow.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Nathan Beaumont <nathanb...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> I short question here, is there a default installed silver style theme > >>> for Ubuntu I don't know about? > >> > >> No, but you can easily (read hopefully) find one on gnome-look.org > >> > > The best ones I found were direct OSX copies. Are ubuntu themes just > > pictures and a text or XML file telling the pictures were to go, like in > > firefox? > > -- > > There's more than one way to write themes for Ubuntu and it's not > immediately clear what's going on :) > > For a start, there isn't a single 'theme' file. A theme is made up of > a bunch of components > > -gtk theme - changes the look of 'widgets' - buttons, lists, menus, > scrollbars, etc > -metacity theme - changes the look of the window borders > - GDM theme - the login screen > -icon theme > - bootup theme - I don't know how this works anymore - I think it's > different in Lucid > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/LucidBootExperience > and then there are lots of other areas and aspects, such as > individual applications' splash screens, themes for applications that > don't use GTK, tweaks to icon themes, etc. > > This (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Blubuntu) is really old > now, but it does at least attempt to break down a 'theme' in to the > components required to make it feel complete. > > Having said that, a huge impact can be made on the system by changing > just the GTK and Metacity themes. > > There's a lot of information on the Internet about these, and I am > certainly no authority - I always find it helps to have a basic > outline before you start trying to search for stuff, so here's an > attempt: > GTK themes are split in to 'GTK Theme Engines' and 'Gtk Theme files > (gtkrc)' - the theme file is a description of the way any particular > engine must behave when drawing the predefined GTK elements. In a > fashion similar to CSS, it involves defining 'styles' that are then > applied to certain types of element when they are drawn by the theme > engine. For example, you could have the 'button' style that had a > different colour when not selected to a 'menu' style. > > There are a range of engines that I see as falling in to two > categories: engines that use images and engines that draw the widgets > themselves. Of the first category pixbuf and eXperience spring to > mind. As for the latter, clearlooks, murrine, smooth, xfce, nodoka and > aurora spring to mind - I'm sure there are new ones these days. > > I hope that helps. This might also help: > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials > > Enjoy making a theme :) > Who > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > The tutorial you linked (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/GtkThemes) was very helpful. Thank you for your explanation. I'll mess around with this and get back to you guys if i come up with something. -- nathanm...@gmail.com
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