
Elegance Colors
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Elegance Colors is a highly customizable chameleon theme for Gnome Shell. It can change colors according to the current GTK theme, current wallpaper (uses imagemagick to get color) or use a user defined color.
Currently Elegance Colors supports Gnome Shell 3.6, 3.8 and 3.10.
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Installation Instructions:
Ubuntu users can install Elegance Colors from our themes PPA using the following commands,
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:satyajit-happy/themes
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-theme-elegance-colors
If you use another distro, you need to compile from source. This is needed for the GUI.
Don't worry, it is easy and straight forward.
You need to install the build-dependencies first (package names may vary depending on your distro),
glib2-devel gtk3-devel vala
Extract the archive, navigate to the directory and type the following commands in a terminal,
make
sudo make install
To derive color from wallpaper, you need to install ImageMagick.
Also install the User Theme Extension for Gnome Shell (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/19/user-themes/)
A process runs in background which detects changes, generates the theme and reloads the theme accordingly. After installation, you must run the following command to start the background process,
elegance-colors
To set the theme, run the following commands,
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme name 'elegance-colors'
You can launch the GUI from the menu which lets you customise various aspects of the the theme. You can also export your customized theme, import/export settings from the GMenu. Click on the title in the Gnome Shell top bar to get the GMenu.
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Troubleshooting:
It is recommended to stop any previous instances of elegance-colors when updating to a new version. You can kill running processes of elegance-colors with the command,
killall elegance-colors
To view any error messages produced, run the process in Terminal,
elegance-colors start
To manually apply changes, run,
elegance-colors apply
If your theme fails to apply after an upgrade, it is likely that the config file doesn't include new options. To update the config file, run,
elegance-colors update
To export the theme, run,
elegance-colors export /path/to/themefile.zip
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Credits: Thanks to Alin Andrei (http://www.webupd8.org) and Brian Bentsen (http://bimsebasse.deviantart.com) for their valuable suggestions and testing.
7 years ago
* Gnome Shell 3.10 support
* Removed option to customize app icon sizes in overview
* Fixed a bug where it failed to make theme when wallpaper is XML
* Better error handling
* Various minor tweaks
7 years ago
* Gnome Shell 3.10 support
* Removed option to customize app icon sizes in overview
* Fixed a bug where it failed to make theme when wallpaper is XML
* Better error handling
* Various minor tweaks
Nisaea
7 years ago
First, I have to virtually hug you for your work, this has to be the best gnome shell theme ever made so far.
However, I have issues with fonts: the theme works fine for a while, and at some point, letters disappear. Not always all of them though. Reloading gnome shell (alt+F2 and "r") momentarily solves the issue but it keeps on coming back.
I'm on Fedora 20, so it's gnome-shell v3.10.4. All my other themes keep their fonts working just fine.
Do you have any idea what could cause this?
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mightymouse2045
7 years ago
This is a brilliant idea and theme, it can be completely changed to look totally different to suit your mood. Once you have settings the way you like back up the ini, and theme folder (if you've changed icons etc...
and you can then script complete changes to your entire theme with the change of your desktop background, or some other event...
Nice work!
I'd like to see an update for gnome-shell 3.10.2 - there seems to be a quite few elements that aren't included, but it still works just fine :)
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satya164
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Zwulf
8 years ago
One thing that I miss (or is it a bug?) is that when I tap the upper left corner (tab "overview" in config app? seems to change nothing...) - the color of panel etc. and background image change to dark grey and uni black wallpaper. Does not look good when using a bright wallpaper and bright gtk theme. Also I miss transparency in left and lower panel. Would be nice if you could change this (without transparency it reminds me of Windumb 8 look. ;)
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satya164
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Zwulf
8 years ago
normal desktop:
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=9402255Bildschirmfoto_vom_2013-01-16_19_50_21.png
Gnome overview:
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5090119Bildschirmfoto_vom_2013-01-16_19_48_23.png
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5566381Bildschirmfoto_vom_2013-01-16_19_49_00.png
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satya164
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Zwulf
8 years ago
Thanks for your help and this nice theme. :)
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peacewithall
8 years ago
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