


Plasma Themes by KenVermette 52 comments

Kvantum by vicko 5 comments

Kvantum by Luwx 35 comments
Please try it again like this (sudo only as user):
sudo tar -xvf Mira.tar --directory=/usr/share/themes
You can extract the theme to ~/.themes (".themes" in your homefolder) as well. - Feb 28 2009
OpenOffice will switch into high contrast mode if you use dark themes. I already posted a solution on the previous page.
http://www.rebelzero.com/fixes/openofficeorg-dark-theme-workaround-with-ubuntu-804/8 - Feb 15 2009
If you download the theme again and extract it, it will work now without any problems.
Drag and Drop should still not work though, because the tar includes 2 themes (Mira & Mirav2). But manual extraction will be fine.
Sorry for the inconvenience! - Feb 06 2009
You just need to move the 2 folders in "/usr/share/themes/Mira_by_sen7" to "/usr/share/themes".
Deviantart doesn't like the .tar.gz format because they automatically change the filename and that script ignores the double filetype.
What you need are just the "Mira" and "Mirav2" folders in Mira_by_sen7. Then it will work.
I will upload a rar or tar to dA to prevent this issue. - Feb 06 2009
ls /usr/share/themes/Mira*
and check if it really contains the theme folders with the "gtk-2.0" subdirectories?
You could also try to extract the theme to /home/YourUser/.themes (~/.themes). If the folder doesn't exist yet, then just create it (dont forget the dot ".themes").
An index file is included so it should show up in the appearance preferences. - Feb 06 2009

GTK2 Themes by emrahunal 33 comments
I frequently use OO myself and simply fixed it by adding this line to /opt/openoffice/program/soffice (depending on your distro it can also be /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice):
export GTK2_RC_FILES=/home/sen/.themes/Shiki-Wine/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
This forces all OO applications to use the shiki-wine theme for example.
The only bad thing about this fix is that you have to readd this line after every OpenOffice upgrade.
- Nov 12 2008
The only way to prevent this is to lower the title font size or to create a bigger titlebar (and that won't look good).
Metacity isn't really happy with this kind of pattern design... emerald is superior. - Nov 12 2008

GTK2 Themes by paraboy 5 comments
I don't mean to be rude so please don't misunderstand me but I do this in my free time. If you want to mod the theme go ahead but you'll have to learn about this stuff on your own (tutorials will help).
As you might know the theme consists of _many_ different images that you can find in the gtk-2.0 folder (the scrollbar images as well). You can recolor these images with gimp, photoshop or whatever editor you want to use. Tutorials are all over the place...
For information about the pixmap-engine look here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/GtkEngines/PixmapEngine - Oct 28 2008
So if you extracted the Mira.tar.gz to "/usr/share/themes" this command would install it:
cp -a /usr/share/themes/Mira/gdm/themes/Mira /usr/share/gdm/themes/
After this you can select the Mira gdm theme in the login-manager preferences or via gdmsetup. - Oct 26 2008
Open the CompizConfig Settings Manager and go to:
Accessibility >>> Opacity, Brightness and Saturation >>> Opacity(tab)
Under the "window specific settings" click on new and enter the following:
Windows: popupmenu
Value: 90 (for example)
You can do the same for: dropdownmenu, menu, tooltip, and so on... - Oct 24 2008
Extract the "Mira_by_sen7.tar.gz" to "/usr/share/themes/" (for all users) or to "/home/YourUser/.themes" (just for a single user).
Now open the appearance settings and click on customize. There select Mira(v2) under interface and window border (or sth. like that).
I don't know howto install the emerald themes on LinuxMint. They are located in the Mira(v2) folder. - Oct 22 2008
To solve this I'll have to create a new set of the metacity theme with a bigger titlebar to make it usable with bigger fonts.
I'm busy with rl stuff atm but I'll release an update for the theme and add a bigger titlebar version of the metacity theme in the next days! - Oct 20 2008
You're right, resizing on the bottom doesn't work, normally I use only the edges so I haven't noticed this.
Thx for informing me about this, I'll look into it.
I've only modded the 5:4 version of the wallpaper, the original from mandolux is available in many resolutions though.
Go to "http://www.mandolux.com/desktops/flowers/" and look for "mandolux-nonef-*". These are the originals of the wallpaper.
I just got the permission from mando to release my mod as a gdm background. If you want a widescreen version of the mod please write me a pm.
- Oct 18 2008

Full Icon Themes by magnussuther 33 comments
I've found one small bug. There's a little inconsistency in some of the new icons. Nothing great but the background gradient changes its angle (in the arrow icons for example).
Keep up the good work! [+vote again] - Oct 17 2008

Full Icon Themes by magnussuther 33 comments
Please keep up the good work! :) - Oct 14 2008
Only the metacity theme has round borders like this...
So I guess you are using the built in compositing feature of metacity.
If you want emerald follow this howto:
http://hacktivision.com/index.php/2008/06/07/how-to-enhance-ubuntu-8-04-hardy-heron-e?blog=2
With the metacity theme I could reproduce the error you have. It looks like this if the font size of the titlebar is too high. Lowering it will probably solve your problem but I would suggest to switch to compiz fusion an emerald for quality reasons.
- Oct 09 2008
I just wrote a message miquel.
I still don't know what the problem can be and I can't reproduce it. A friend of mine uses Ubuntu as well and had no problems.
Like I mentioned in the privat message please give me some details and yes a screenshot would be great! :) - Oct 09 2008
However it's fixed now, just redownload the theme and all should be fine. Thanks again for informing me about this problem :)
You said that you fixed your firefox problem already but I just want to clear something up.
All you have to do to get the firefox3 display right with dark-themes in generell is to modify the "userContent.css".
Just copy the userContent.css that I included in this release (in the Mira folder) to "/home/YourUser/.mozilla/firefox/215sd414f5.YourProfile/chrome"
an restart firefox. - Sep 24 2008