Solarized-Light Complete Desktop

GTK3 Themes cursors gtk-gnome icons openbox-3 xfwm4

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/rtlewis88/rtl88-Themes/tree/Solarized-Light

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Description:

A GTK, xfwm4, openbox-3, and GNOME-Shell - Light Mode Theme - Based on the Official Color Pallet Created by Ethan Schoonover.

Brought back to the GUI by popular demand, Solarized-Light - as originally created by Ethan Schoonover - is the highly valued color scheme for code editors and terminal emulators. This GTK and GNOME-Shell light-mode-scheme strictly adheres to Ethan Schoonover's original color scheme, which has been published for many major applications, with some including the scheme pre-installed. Coders and GUI users, alike, know that - once you try your preference of either Solarized-Dark or Solarized-Light - it is hard to go back to anything else.

In His Own Words:

"Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications. It has several unique properties. I designed this colorscheme with both precise CIELAB lightness relationships and a refined set of hues based on fixed color wheel relationships. It has been tested extensively in real world use on color calibrated displays (as well as uncalibrated/intentionally miscalibrated displays) and in a variety of lighting conditions." https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/

The GTK, xfwm4, openbox-3, and GNOME-Shell theme represents a careful blending of modernized Numix elements, in tandem with those of minimalist artist Rafa Capoci, icon designer Wojciech Kalinowski, and full-stack web-developer/themer Pavel Agarkov, with an overlay of the original standard Solarized theming created by Ethan Schoonover.

Chose from either the Complete-Desktop file or the three separate desktop, icons, or cursor files.

Manual Installation Is Easy:

For themes: 1) Extract the "tar.xz" file into your "~/.themes/" folder - to install for current user only - or into the "/usr/share/themes/" folder - for the theme to be applied globally. 2) Use the GNOME Tweak Tool or an equivalent app to enable it for your desktop.

If installing manually, make sure to install the dependency: "Murrine theme engine" if you do not already have it; and update your GTK+packages if you have not.

For icons: 1) Extract the "tar.xz" file into your "~/.icons/" folder - to install for current user only - or into the "/usr/share/icons/" folder - for the icons and folders to be applied globally. 2) Use the GNOME Tweak Tool or an equivalent app to enable them for your desktop.

For Cursors: 1) Same as with the icons, extract the "tar.xz" files into your "~/.icons/" folder - to install for current user only - or into the "/usr/share/icons/" folder - for the cursors to be applied globally. 2) Use the GNOME Tweak Tool or an equivalent app to enable them for your desktop.

Logging out and then logging back in may be necessary on some operating systems to fully implement themes, icons, and cursors.


*** Solarized-Dark Complete Desktop, Solarized-Dark-gtk-theme-colorpack and Solarized-Colors-gtk-theme-iconpack are now available, on this site, in separate packages.

To check out Solarized-Dark Complete Desktop, please follow this link to: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1311022/
To check out Solarized-Dark-gtk-theme-colorpack, please follow this link to https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1309239/.

To check out Solarized-Colors-gtk-theme-iconpack, please follow this link to: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1308808/
Last changelog:

20-10-19: Version 1.7.9 8 minutes ago

Fresh build per last commit: 14-10-19

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amkinser7

2 months ago

10 10 the best Thank you.

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ligang1840

2 months ago

10 10 the best

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lelyvaddym

2 months ago

10 the best

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caligoat

2 months ago

9 I consider this more of a medium or mixed theme (between dark & light). Very nice for the eyes, thank you!

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bealsc

2 months ago

9 Great work! Looks nice and is very helpful for sensitivity to bright lights. There are a few places with light text on a light background (XFCE in debian 10). Once those minor niggles are fixed this is definitely a 10. I made some reg files for use in Wine so to make Wine apps match your solarized themes (among others). They are on my github (bealsc). Thanks for your works!

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delish1

3 months ago

9 9 excellent

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tarskiscat

3 months ago

8 8 great

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tarskiscat

3 months ago

Excellent theme, looks really good. However, the red borders around the windows are not consistent for different apps. For example in Thunderbird the line is ~1px outside the actual window, which is very annoying. Any ideas how to fix this?

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rtl88

3 months ago

I'll have a look at it as soon as I can; thank you for your input.

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momoney

3 months ago

9 9 excellent

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kerrif

3 months ago

9 9 excellent

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aliam

3 months ago

Thanks for the panel and boarder upgrades, I can really tell! :)

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impy338

3 months ago

10 Cool, that'll work just fine! Thanks!!!

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fishears

3 months ago

9 9 excellent

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blissful

3 months ago

9 9 excellent

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alock

3 months ago

10 Great theme!

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morphis

3 months ago

I'm starting to love this theme!
But I report this: the text is illegible with dark backgrounds
https://imgur.com/Abh3Fa8

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alock

3 months ago

I have a dark background and my text is perfectly white and legible.

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rtl88

3 months ago

Here is this theme on a dark background... it looks like it supposed to:

https://cn.opendesktop.org/img/3/0/d/e/fa47dee3ccf8b3dae6b4ce6f220aa9e09b89.png

Please send me your specs, if you want me look further into it, thanks.

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morphis

3 months ago

I use Manjaro, gnome 3.32.2
Text is white on the app grid, but dark when you use the search bar (as you can saw on the previous screenshot)

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rtl88

3 months ago

morphis, thanks for being more specific. The update accommodating this issue will be pushed out about in 15 minutes.

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fishears

3 months ago

i love the look of this theme but for me on gnome shell 3.32.2 the panel font & icons are wrong. All white, date/time has shadow. I can screen shot if needed

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rtl88

3 months ago

fishears, I am pushing out the update to catch this up to 3.32.2 shortly. Thanks tremendously for your input!

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morphis

3 months ago

8 8 great

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radexkde

3 months ago

9 9 excellent

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20-10-19: Version 1.7.9 8 minutes ago

Fresh build per last commit: 14-10-19

06-10-19: Version 1.5.8 14 days ago

Dialog Buttons Tweaks

28-09-19: Version 1.7.7 22 days ago

Assets Adjustments

21-09-19: Version 1.7.6 1 month ago

Border Adjustments

12-09-19: Version 1.7.4 1 month ago

GTK-2 Tweaks

04-09-19: Version 1.7.4 1 month ago

Text Adjustments

23-08-19: Version 1.7.3 1 month ago

Icon Resolution Adjustments

18-08-19: Version 1.7.2 2 months ago

Text tweaks, button/checkbox adjustments.

09-08-19: Version 1.7.1 2 months ago

Various Button Color Tweaks.

01-08-19 2 months ago

Icon Color Tweaks, Context Menu Text Adjustments

31-07-19: Version 1.6.1 2 months ago

Text Adjustments on App-Grid

31-07-19: Version 1.6 2 months ago

Icon Color Tweaks

24-07-19: Version 1.5 2 months ago

Icon Color Adjustments

15-07-19: version 1.4.2 3 months ago

Dialog Tweaks, Naming Fixes.

15-07-19: version 1.4.2 3 months ago

Dialog Tweaks, Naming Fixes.

07-07-19: version 1.4.1 3 months ago

Fixed Text Issues

07-07-19: version 1.4 3 months ago

Text and Menu Upgrades

06-07-19: version 1.3.7 3 months ago

Color Compatibility Update

01-07-19: version 1.3.6 3 months ago

Panel Style Upgrades

01-07-19: version 1.3.5 3 months ago

GTK Boarder Updated

30-06-19: version 1.3.4 3 months ago

Dialog Color Tweaked

23-06-19: version 1.3.3 3 months ago

Update for Shell Search Text

21-06-19: version 1.3.2 3 months ago

Panel update

19-06-19: version 1.3.1 4 months ago

Scrollbar coloring adjusted to match border color scheme

19-06-19: version 1.3 4 months ago

Color and Styling Upgrades to Topbar Menus

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product-maker amkinser7 Aug 18 2019 10 the best
10 the best Thank you.
product-maker ligang1840 Aug 10 2019 10 the best
10 the best
product-maker caligoat Aug 01 2019 9 excellent
I consider this more of a medium or mixed theme (between dark & light). Very nice for the eyes, thank you!
product-maker bealsc Jul 30 2019 9 excellent
Great work! Looks nice and is very helpful for sensitivity to bright lights. There are a few places with light text on a light background (XFCE in debian 10). Once those minor niggles are fixed this is definitely a 10. I made some reg files for use in Wine so to make Wine apps match your solarized themes (among others). They are on my github (bealsc). Thanks for your works!
product-maker delish1 Jul 17 2019 9 excellent
9 excellent
product-maker tarskiscat Jul 17 2019 8 great
8 great
product-maker momoney Jul 09 2019 9 excellent
9 excellent
product-maker kerrif Jul 01 2019 9 excellent
9 excellent
product-maker impy338 Jun 24 2019 10 the best
Cool, that'll work just fine! Thanks!!!
product-maker fishears Jun 24 2019 9 excellent
9 excellent
product-maker blissful Jun 23 2019 9 excellent
9 excellent
product-maker alock Jun 23 2019 10 the best
Great theme!
product-maker morphis Jun 23 2019 8 great
8 great
product-maker radexkde Jun 23 2019 9 excellent
9 excellent
product-maker aliam Jun 23 2019 10 the best
Just what I needed, thank you!
product-maker enman-4 Jun 20 2019 8 great
8 great thanks!
product-maker lynnalbertson1067 Jun 19 2019 10 the best
10 the best I don't normally give the highest mark when I even bother with reviews, but this is the first time my tooltips and notifications, etc. appear with the same exact same theming - wow!! You are a Picasso thanks tremendously for this unique theme friend.
product-maker c-log Jun 19 2019 10 the best
Perfect! This is exactly what I needed to keep my journalist eyes from melting out of my head after 12 hours researching via the net. Thank you!
product-maker burnside Jun 18 2019 10 the best
I'm so glad you made a light one too! Now I can switch off the dark one to this during the day, thank you again for both :)!!
product-maker haertie Jun 17 2019 1 ugh
ugly.
product-maker hagnorv Jun 15 2019 9 excellent
9 excellent Good with the magenta icons on other page (i think its for this solarized too) ~ https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1308808/
product-maker aedrasil Jun 15 2019 10 the best
10 the best
product-maker timinak Jun 15 2019 10 the best
Colorful and useful, it would be nice to have some matching wallpaper - I agree.
product-maker crainium Jun 15 2019 9 excellent
Speechless, except to say you did it again, No 10 on this one because you don't have any wallpaper up here yet.. yet. Thanks as always for your fine work!
product-maker papa-dedeaux1 Jun 14 2019 10 the best
Lot of nice goodies! Thanks a lot rtl88!
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