Glow
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
11 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.
11 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.
xcesarfrancox
Mar 11 2010
Roultabie
Mar 08 2010
Janthem
Feb 18 2010
jfabius
Jan 17 2010
harryxu
Jul 09 2009
ace214
Jul 08 2009
Ralfito
Jul 07 2009
Roultabie
9 years ago
Thank you!!!
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MikeDK
10 years ago
any workaround for this, or could it be nautilus, thats failing??
Kind Regards MikeDK
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MikeDK
10 years ago
it dont do it on other themes, just your Glow theme, could this please be corrected, dont know how to trace the error.
Kind Regards MikeDK
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ben38
10 years ago
but it seems icons in submenus (like when i click on File or Edit) does not show up.
I have tried basic themes that come with aurora 1.4 and it is ok.
What is the code i should look at in your theme ?
Thx
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envyouraudience
10 years ago
more colors to come
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Pedroelgringo
11 years ago
I really love this theme.
I just wanted t know what icon themes you're using on your screenshots.
Thanks
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johnrork
11 years ago
I tried to select it by customizing, but it's not in the list.
I tried moving the theme folder to /usr/share/themes manually, but couldn't get anything to show up.
What should I be doing?
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Complex21
11 years ago
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fmrbpensador
11 years ago
Are you saying that the previous flat Murrine panels were better? Is the pixmap background I'm providing what bothers you? Please be more explicit so that we can actually improve the theme.
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ochosi
11 years ago
about the panel-background: at least to me not such an important topic, cause you can so easily enable or disable it.
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table
11 years ago
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sajmon75
11 years ago
great theme!
I found a little bug in metacity theme: try to look top corners when the window is over a white\gray background, i think there aren't some pixels.
Sorry for my english.. thanks for your work! :)
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fmrbpensador
11 years ago
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Complex21
11 years ago
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fmrbpensador
11 years ago
I explained how to take care of it at the description of the theme. Please read it.
I'll try to find out a better solution, as I also said in a previous message, right here at the comment box.
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marcozanger
11 years ago
What font were u using when u took those screenshots?
Thanks in advance!
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fmrbpensador
11 years ago
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joerghenning
11 years ago
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masand
11 years ago
I lovo you job... it is very clean and cool!!!
I have just a question, is there a way to remove lines between toolbar and menubar (like MacOs)?
Thanks for your job.
masand
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fmrbpensador
11 years ago
To be honest, I don't know (yet) how to do that, or whether it is possible, but it does sound like a nice idea. I'll try to read more about it, if I find any useful information.
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masand
11 years ago
I looking forward to your news.
Again, great job!!!
masand
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KingCam
11 years ago
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joerghenning
11 years ago
Using Aurora 1.4 (latest version I think) on Ubuntu Hardy and Murrine from distros repo.
Currenlty I'm stuck to the old version, but great theme anyway.
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KingCam
11 years ago
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fmrbpensador
11 years ago
Glow is a set of 16 themes. Are all of them broken on your side? If not, which is? I downloaded the uploaded version of the themes myself, and they're loading fine. I'm trying to find out what is wrong.
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