Zuki

GTK2 Themes

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

20
6 .2
Description:

This style is inspired by eGTK by danrabbit. I have borrowed some parts to style Nautilus.

PANELS IN THE PREVIEW IMAGE ARE EMBEDDED IN THE WALLPAPERS AND WILL NOT LOOK LIKE THAT BY DEFAULT. READ THE TUTORIAL BELOW!

GTK engines required:
- The Murrine engine. (0.90.3+git20100323.)
- The latest Equinox engine - http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Equinox+Gtk+Engine?content=121881
- The Pixbuf/pixmap engine.

This style is currently designed around nautilus-elementary. I recommend that you install that. Otherwise you can use the included Zuki Classic Nautilus.

To correctly display the breadcrumbs in nautilus-elementary, go to Properties > Tweaks > Show like breadcrumbs and then restart Nautilus.

I recommend that you use a dock for this theme.

To open 7z files install the package p7zip.

To install this theme extract the included folders to:

/home/Your Username/.themes

or for all users:

/usr/share/themes

Then go to System->Preferences->Appearance and select it from the list. (For some reason this may not work. Just select the parts manually if it don't work.)
Or change the parts manually by clicking on the Customize button to select your preferred window border, icon and cursor theme.

Other info

Walls are personal mods of this wallpaper: http://xnhan00.deviantart.com/art/Wp-Xanh-lam-114372730
Icons: AwOken
Font: Nimbus
Top menubar: gnome-globalmenu

HOW TO USE A CUSTOM PANEL

This is an optional step for more experienced customizers. This step may be very hard for beginners!

As you can see in my preview image I've added a custom panel. Gnome-panel unfortunately can't handle real transpareny without making it all look like a frellwit. We can work around this by embedding some graphics on our wallpaper, making it look like real transparency.
First of all, make sure you are using "Zuki Dark's" controls and widgets.

For this to work you need to have GIMP installed.
Ubuntu users - Open a terminal and type: sudo apt-get install gimp.
You also need a GIMP plugin call Liquid Rescale: sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry
Other users - http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/en:download-page-linux

### THE IMAGE ###

1. Locate the panel.png file in the archive.

2. Open the PNG-file in GIMP.

3. Go to Layer > Liquid Rescale.

4. Enter your screen width in the Width area and then resize the image.
(The "chain" icon next to the values needs to be "open". If it's locked, just click on it. It should be open by default though.)

5. Press CTRL+A (or Select > All.) Copy the image and paste it on your wallpaper of choice.
Important: Your wallpaper must have the same width and height as your desktop resolution.

6. Move the pasted layer to the top and then save your new wallpaper as whatever.png.

### THE PANEL ###

(Make sure your panel is set to 24px in height.)

1. Go to the directory where you installed the theme (Probably /home/username/.themes/Zuki Dark/)
Open the panel.rc file.

2. Put a # in front of bg_pixmap[NORMAL] so it will look like this:
#bg_pixmap[NORMAL] = "/Panel/panel-bg.png" # Disable for normal panel backgrounds.
Then save the document.

3. Rightclick on your panel and select properties. Go to the Background tab and select Solid color. Move the Style slider all the way to the left.

4. And you're done! Enjoy your fake transparent panel.
Last changelog:

10 years ago

0.3.3 (July 20, 2010)
- New pixmap scrollbars very similar to elementary.
- New panel option for experienced customizers.
- Removed the color options to reduce the size so I can upload it as a zip file again. Colors can easily be changed in the Gnome Appearance Settings.

0.3.2 (June 23, 2010)
- Added another hover to the scrollbar.
- Rounded the progressbars.
- Re-packaged everything into a 7zip file because the normal zip file became too big for gnome-look.
- Emerald theme included.

0.3.1 (June 14, 2010)
- Fixed panel applet text color in the dark styles.

0.3 (June 14, 2010)
- XFCE desktop icon textstyle removed.
- New dark style included with dark panel and window borders.
- Selected menu text now changes to white when hovered.
- Minor fixes and cleanup.

0.2.2 (June 12, 2010)
- Added a version for classic Nautilus users. The same version does not any longer require the Equinox engine.

0.2.1 (June 12, 2010)
- New color schemes. Green and pink.
- Theme files and info files included for easier theme installation.

0.2 (June 11, 2010)
- Some cleaning done
- Breadcrumbs added to Nautilus
- Added the pixmap slider from eGTK to Nautilus
- New panel code based on the one from eGTK.
- Minor fixes

0.1 (June 10, 2010)
- First release.

37 comments
Comments/Ratings

Please login or register to add a comment or rating

ludmiloff

9 years ago

Wonderful theme!
I know, emerald is bit old, but what about emerald decorations?

Report

YaroMan

9 years ago

Is that Cairo Dock?

Report

9

crackenoid

10 years ago

This is truly the most elegant theme I have used. But, there seems to be a problem. Everything except the Synaptics Manager displays just like it should. The Synaptics window looks like it is using a Windows 95 theme. Like I said before all other windows look perfect except this.
OS: Ubuntu 10.10

Report

Asturbal

10 years ago

Did you put the theme foder in /usr/share/themes? When you just add in theme manager, you just add for your user. When you use root user, the theme does't exist, so the SO uses the defaut gnome theme.

Report

9

crackenoid

10 years ago

Ah. I see. My bad. I should have read the part where it said
"for all users:
/usr/share/themes"

Thanks for the help.

Report

Devil505

10 years ago

Your theme will be set as default for GNOME on the next release of Frugalware (1.4 Nexon) :)

http://forums.frugalware.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&p=28&sid=e22433649093010cb810e6b7886eb4ac#p28

Thanks

Report

jordanwb

10 years ago

For Gentoo users to get the equinox engine you have to add the wirelay overlay through layman.

Report

jecovier

10 years ago

"This style is inspired by eGTK by danrabbit"... you did it better!!!... and that's no easy

Report

shankru85

10 years ago

Excellent. Easy on the eyes and very clean.

Report

9

CruyffTurn

10 years ago

A beautifully clean theme - I'm running it right now. (However I have to echo johnisevil's point.)

Report

johnisevil

10 years ago

This is more a complaint with many new themes, but it would be nice if they didn't all depend on GIT/SVN/etc. versions of theme engines. Not everyone uses Ubuntu where the developers are happy to push out testing grade packages to their users. It's a little limiting to users like myself who use distros like Gentoo wear stability is paramount.

Otherwise, great work on this theme. One of the better ones I've seen on here in quite some time.

Report

9

CruyffTurn

10 years ago

I agree 100%. I run Debian Testing and have to use git's murrine to run at least half of the GTK themes here - it's not so much gnome-look.org as ubuntu-look.org. Why Ubuntu want to enforce a lot of unstable software on their users is beyond me.

Report

vervelover

10 years ago

it is beacause it is perfectly stable. Never had a single issue with ubuntu's default murrine engine so far..

Report

cyberpatrol

10 years ago

Now that I got it installed, I've got the problem that the theme doesn't work in Xfce.

The file permissions are set correctly and I've installed gtk-engine-equinox 1.20, gtk-engine-murrine 0.90.3 and gtk-engine-pixbuf 0.1.0. But every theme look like the ugly Windows 95. Of course I also restarted X.

Am I missing something or doesn't it work with Xfce?

Report

C

lassekongo83

10 years ago

Sounds like an engine problem.
Is it Murrine 0.90.3+git20100323 you have installed? Try to install the latest murrine-git version otherwise.

Report

cyberpatrol

10 years ago

Thanks for the help. With murrine-git it's working.

Indeed one of most beautiful themes I've seen. Only the gray in the window background and the menus could be a shade lighter for my taste. And some more colors like e.g. orange, wine-red or the like would be nice. :-)

Report

cyberpatrol

10 years ago

The downloaded 7z archive can't be extracted correctly. Every file is extracted into the directory where the archive is saved, 7z asks if several files shall be overwritten and the extracted Zuki* directories are empty. So you should rebuild the archive and probably use one of the more common archive formats .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 or .tar.xz instead of 7z.

Report

cyberpatrol

10 years ago

The subject should of course mean: "Archive is not packed correctly"

Report

C

lassekongo83

10 years ago

The archive works fine for me. Are you sure you have p7zip installed? And what program do you use to extract compressed files with?

Unfortunately I can't pack it in any of the other formats because of the 750KB size limitation here on gnome-look. The 7z file is 128KB while the other formats gets up to 800-2000KB.

Report

cyberpatrol

10 years ago

I have p7zip 9.04 installed and extract it with `7z e <archive name>`.
Probably this issue is why this archive is so extremely small compared to the other archive formats due to missing file informations. ;-)

Report

BobCFC

10 years ago

Use 7zip x to extract with directories from the command line

Or if you have file-roller just double click on it or rightclick and choose extract here.


--


If the file size is an issue maybe offer the classic/nautilus elementary versions as separate downloads. Many themes seem to have more than one download on the same page

Report

cyberpatrol

10 years ago

With 7z x (that really makes sense, two parameters for extraction) and with file-roller it can be extracted, but only with these.

With squeeze the archive can't be opened and xarchive shows two files (.7z and 9) both with 0 byte and the first one with Time="Time" and Date="Date" and the second one with Time="e".

Thanks for the help, anyway.

Report

C

lassekongo83

10 years ago

Not sure why the compression is so much better in 7zip, but perhaps that may have something to do with it. :P

Anyways. Try using a GUI for this, like file-roller for example.

Report

BobCFC

10 years ago

This is so good. The screenshots don't do it justice - you have to use it for a while to appreciate the nice touches

Not too sure about the metacity buttons. The outline looks a bit soft

9/10

Report

sherlockholmes47

10 years ago

Excellent theme. Best I've seen so far.

Report

10 years ago

0.3.3 (July 20, 2010)
- New pixmap scrollbars very similar to elementary.
- New panel option for experienced customizers.
- Removed the color options to reduce the size so I can upload it as a zip file again. Colors can easily be changed in the Gnome Appearance Settings.

0.3.2 (June 23, 2010)
- Added another hover to the scrollbar.
- Rounded the progressbars.
- Re-packaged everything into a 7zip file because the normal zip file became too big for gnome-look.
- Emerald theme included.

0.3.1 (June 14, 2010)
- Fixed panel applet text color in the dark styles.

0.3 (June 14, 2010)
- XFCE desktop icon textstyle removed.
- New dark style included with dark panel and window borders.
- Selected menu text now changes to white when hovered.
- Minor fixes and cleanup.

0.2.2 (June 12, 2010)
- Added a version for classic Nautilus users. The same version does not any longer require the Equinox engine.

0.2.1 (June 12, 2010)
- New color schemes. Green and pink.
- Theme files and info files included for easier theme installation.

0.2 (June 11, 2010)
- Some cleaning done
- Breadcrumbs added to Nautilus
- Added the pixmap slider from eGTK to Nautilus
- New panel code based on the one from eGTK.
- Minor fixes

0.1 (June 10, 2010)
- First release.

12345678910
1114
product-maker tigefa Feb 02 2017 9 excellent
product-maker doty Nov 01 2016 9 excellent
product-maker lieter Jan 08 2013 3 bad
product-maker gimme2free Jan 08 2013 3 bad
product-maker arcadia1992 Mar 30 2012 3 bad
product-maker Barbi Aug 13 2011 9 excellent
product-maker Illuna Apr 27 2011 9 excellent
product-maker CruyffTurn Apr 17 2011 9 excellent
product-maker 8Ypsilon Dec 24 2010 9 excellent
product-maker archandy Dec 14 2010 9 excellent
product-maker infodroid Dec 13 2010 3 bad
product-maker chrs Nov 23 2010 9 excellent
product-maker bubblebobblegum Nov 13 2010 3 bad
product-maker ubunturocks Nov 12 2010 3 bad
product-maker disastrophe Nov 08 2010 9 excellent
product-maker frenchlick Nov 02 2010 3 bad
product-maker 19miles Oct 27 2010 9 excellent
product-maker pissymissy Oct 26 2010 3 bad
product-maker Zzzz Oct 13 2010 9 excellent
product-maker crackenoid Oct 12 2010 9 excellent
product-maker gnomechick Oct 02 2010 3 bad
product-maker 2sev Oct 02 2010 9 excellent
product-maker paul12 Sep 23 2010 3 bad
product-maker LinuxSheep Sep 22 2010 3 bad
product-maker tesa Sep 21 2010 9 excellent
product-maker Base: 4 x 5.0 Ratings

0 comments
 Comments

Please login or register to add a comment

Be the first to comment
Illuna
Apr 27 2011
19miles
Oct 27 2010
auratux
Sep 12 2010
Devil505
Sep 01 2010
leprosys
Aug 13 2010
chmurlik
Jul 25 2010
hotice
Jul 22 2010
shankru85
Jul 22 2010
jecovier
Jul 20 2010
joeyslb
Jun 14 2010
honfi
Jun 14 2010
logscon
Jun 13 2010
terzogiro
Jun 12 2010
timorei
Jun 11 2010
kai100
Jun 11 2010
raoulr
Jun 11 2010
SorinN
Jun 11 2010
KYRN
Jun 11 2010
turup
Jun 11 2010
djspider
Jun 11 2010
File (click to download) Version Description Downloads Date Filesize DL OCS-Install MD5SUM
*Needs pling-store or ocs-url to install things
product-maker
lassekongo83
Pling
0 Affiliates

Support-Box

Become a Supporter of "Zuki" and similar GTK2 Themes via a monthly donation of
  • $0.99
  • $2
  • $5
  • $10
  • $
    Enter a free Amount
Zuki is part of GTK Themes and Content, which is supported by the following people:
More GTK2 Themes from lassekongo83:
product
product
product
product
product
product
Other GTK2 Themes:
product
product
product
product
product
product
Details
license
version
0.3.3
updated Jul 20 2010
added Jun 10 2010
downloads 24h
1
mediaviews 24h 0
pageviews 24h 5
Report Misuse Report SPAM
System Tags gnome gtk2 linux theme unix