
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
The idea for this theme appeared after I started modifying the Aurora Aqua theme for personal use. Then I realised I wanted to change many other things in the code of the theme, added some details, used other engines... And when I noticed what I was doing, I had a new theme in my hands. So here it is. The Glow GTK theme is mainly based in Aurora, but it also requires the Clearlooks engine to work. Please let me know of any suggestion, critic, bug or whatever you wish to say. I hope you enjoy this new Glow.
Glow is actually a set of several themes, with 8 variations: Cinder (grey); Fire (red); Flower (pink); Grass (green); Ice (silver blue); Lava (darker orange); Sand (orange); and Water (blue). Each of these variations has two designs, light and dark. I'm still trying to test if especially the dark versions work well in all apps. The usual individual tricks you know from other dark themes may still apply. Let me know how it can be improved.
NOTE
If you're using the GNOME panel, please pick the pixmap I'm providing for the panels as their background, on the panel properties, if you want your inactive buttons on the tasklist to become invisible. The Xfce users have an easy to enable similar function at the Xfce4-panel's tasklist properties.
If you want to replace the panel's background with another pixmap or with a transparency, please comment the correspondent line in the Panel.rc file, using a hash sign, like this:
#bg_pixmap[NORMAL] = "panel.png"
Important:
This theme is not a finished, definitive work. As always, there might be some aspects to change and improve. Therefore, and in the spirit of what was said above in this description, if you feel you have to vote this theme down, please let me know why, in order that we can work on this theme in a constructive way. Thanks in advance.
Also many thanks to ochosi and islington for the window decoration themes they created. The links to their work are now being provided below. Thanks to Ayoli for once more helping me out with the theme's code.
On the screenshots, I'm using the Eikon icon theme, which is a personal icon collection with several works found across the Web that I've been maintaining for myself, and that after several requires I decided to share in non-official releases.
To get the most recent updates to Eikon, now on its second generation, please check this website: http://drop.io/fmrbpensador
12 years ago
0.1.0 - 6 colour variants and 2 designs;
0.1.1 - Fixed the tab colour issue on the dark themes;
0.1.2 - Two more colour variants;
0.1.3 - Brightened up the colours of the scrollbars on the darker versions, and as for the inactive selected areas, they're now dark grey, without any coloured influence;
0.1.4 - Fixed Gedit's left pane bug (corrected the panel.rc file to the effect - solution found at the GNOME colors project code); changed the size of the large toolbar icons to 24 pixels; added a pixmap as a background to the panels;
0.1.5 - Removed the dark limits of the panel's pixmap;
1.0.0 - Metacity versions available, both for the light and the dark variants of Glow;
1.0.1 - Solved the right-click context menus bug; reduced the size of arrows; changed the engine of the menus to Clearlooks; increased the saturation of the scrollbars;
1.0.2 - Changed the panels' engine back to Aurora, with a smoother pixmap as the background;
1.0.3 - Changed the treeview's engine and also the menus to Murrine (with the Clearlooks substyle); brighter and slightly larger scrollbars;
1.0.4 - Reverted all the Murrine widgets to Clearlooks because of issues with older versions of the Murrine engine; also learnt not to be too creative either.
12 years ago
0.1.0 - 6 colour variants and 2 designs;
0.1.1 - Fixed the tab colour issue on the dark themes;
0.1.2 - Two more colour variants;
0.1.3 - Brightened up the colours of the scrollbars on the darker versions, and as for the inactive selected areas, they're now dark grey, without any coloured influence;
0.1.4 - Fixed Gedit's left pane bug (corrected the panel.rc file to the effect - solution found at the GNOME colors project code); changed the size of the large toolbar icons to 24 pixels; added a pixmap as a background to the panels;
0.1.5 - Removed the dark limits of the panel's pixmap;
1.0.0 - Metacity versions available, both for the light and the dark variants of Glow;
1.0.1 - Solved the right-click context menus bug; reduced the size of arrows; changed the engine of the menus to Clearlooks; increased the saturation of the scrollbars;
1.0.2 - Changed the panels' engine back to Aurora, with a smoother pixmap as the background;
1.0.3 - Changed the treeview's engine and also the menus to Murrine (with the Clearlooks substyle); brighter and slightly larger scrollbars;
1.0.4 - Reverted all the Murrine widgets to Clearlooks because of issues with older versions of the Murrine engine; also learnt not to be too creative either.
fmrbpensador
12 years ago
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fmrbpensador
12 years ago
Sorry for that. Repos with old stuff are frustrating.
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fmrbpensador
12 years ago
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KingCam
12 years ago
sliderstyle
colorize_scrollbar
I didn't look in the rc, I am just guessing that you are using those, because those are not yet functioning on normal murrine... and when I tried to use them in a rc I was editing, it broke, just like this one.
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DavidTheGnome
12 years ago
Besides that, this is one of the best themes I've ever seen for GNOME and what I currently use on my desktop (in the Glow Ice version).
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fmrbpensador
12 years ago
That said, while I think of a better, more creative solution than the one that I'm currently providing, you could edit the panel.rc file and simply comment out the following line with a hash sign, like this:
#bg_pixmap[NORMAL] = "panel.png"
Save the file and then you'll be able to change the background of your panels the way you wish to. I'll add this information to the theme's description, too. Sorry for this issue, and I hope Glow can keep satisfying you as a user.
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DavidTheGnome
12 years ago
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elvisd
12 years ago
first thank you for you artwork.
It's very nice.
But in firefox, i.e., the addressbar has a gray ugly border...
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DavidTheGnome
12 years ago
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IstrikeAgain
12 years ago
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gomezhyuuga1
12 years ago
Sorry for the traduction (google traductor)
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fmrbpensador
12 years ago
If you are trying to install it through the GNOME Appearance dialog, it will not work for the same reason above: all the themes are inside one single archive, so you need to do it manually. If there is a great need for individual archives, I might take care of it in future releases.
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gomezhyuuga1
12 years ago
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elvisd
12 years ago
(i.ex.: Aurora)?
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cakeandtea
12 years ago
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fmrbpensador
12 years ago
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cakeandtea
12 years ago
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gionni
12 years ago
A++
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d3br074
12 years ago
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islington
12 years ago
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zeltak
12 years ago
I Finally found a theme i love, thx for the hard work. one thing that really bugs me. all the GTK icons are super small, is there no way to get the to the normal size all other themes use?
thx again
Zeltak
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kef
12 years ago
there is sure to be juicy information on the previous pages, you should always check them out.
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ochosi
12 years ago
there is sure to be juicy information on the previous pages, you should always check them out.
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kef
12 years ago
loving the theme btw, thanks for the great job!
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