I will tell you that the code is in the metacity theme. Outside of that, a mix of tag names and comments should make the rest of it apparent. Cheers. - May 17 2012
This is also the reason for the issue with the checkboxes and radio buttons in GTK tree widgets as well. Instead of colouring them how I define them to be coloured in every other case, it treats the check mark or radio dot as text and colours it as such. So I would really love to fix this as I noticed it ages ago, but it is a limitation of GTK and the way Lucidity is coloured. The only way to "fix" it would be to change the way Lucidity looks, which would destroy the look and feel of the theme.
Alternatively, the GTK+ authors could fix this behaviour so that radio and check buttons in treeviews can be themed. Oh well.
As for icons, as mentioned, I cannot help that the Java icon is not made with dark themes in mind. Cheers. ;o - Dec 15 2010
The thing is, I have used it with shadows on at all times, and didn't realise until fairly recently that it looked that way without them. Nobody has said anything about it other than you either, which also made it harder to consider. It seems that people just like the click the '-' button for whatever reason then bugger off since I can read their minds.
At the moment I am focused on finishing up the remaining icons for the 2.4 release as I am over halfway done, but I will try to work this in as a final minor release for 2.3. Thanks for bringing this up rather than marking off the theme and moving on. Cheers. - Dec 08 2010
Which icon set are you using with it? Also, could you post the contents of /usr/share/icons/Lucidity/index.theme ? Cheers. :) - Nov 26 2010
If your issues with the colour scheme is how dark one part is versus the other, that is simply the intention of high contrast and the basic idea behind this theme to be "Lucid," as in clear and easy to see/understand/etc. ;) - Nov 05 2010
I want to make a site to showcase all the old versions and show the evolution of the theme, complete with download links. However, I do not have the hosting, so uploading all would be difficult. :o - Nov 05 2010
But yeah, I will look into the licensing and make sure there is no issue changing it, then proceed to do so. Cheers. :) - Nov 04 2010
Regardless, I am going to shoot for a colour which I feel matches my initial vision of the theme better and have it out at some point. Hopefully I will find something that will look good on monitors regardless of colour levels, as the current colour looks more grey for me than it does on some screens.
Different colour levels in monitors is a rather unfortunate part of designing computer art and themes. ;x - Nov 02 2010
Since the look and feel is going to change a good bit from the original square look and be a better balance of moreso squared and rounded objects, I will be moving the minor revision up to 4, aka it shall be Lucidity 1.4.
I plan to polish up the changes and release it in two days to coincide with the release of Ubuntu 10.10. Cheers. :) - Oct 08 2010
Also, I share your typical use of default themes due to most themes being "off" in some way. As such, I have been very meticulous in making this theme as complete and tight as possible. Good to know I did well enough with that to make someone else see it. :) - Jun 07 2010

GTK2 Themes by tiheum 257 comments

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GTK2 Themes by emilywind 8 comments
As Dan said, the changes are subtle. That is because this is meant to be a clean up release of Elementary 1.1, hence "refresh." If you notice from my other contributions here, they are mostly clean ups of other works. That is not because I enjoy plagiarism or lack creativity, but because I pay extremely close attention to detail.
As for modifications of future elementary theme releases, I will be throwing ideas back and forth with the elementary team. My hopes are to use my acute attention to detail to help the elementary project directly from here on. Cheers. :) - May 23 2010