Xfce ClassicLooks

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Score 84.3%

Description:

Xfce ClassicLooks is a linux/freebsd retro-theme focused on providing a consistent look for all industry-standard GUI toolkits on the Xfce desktop.

Keywords: xfce, classic look, classic style, consistent look, uniform look

Last changelog:

1.2.5 21 days ago

- fixed long-standing issue with fg/bg colors of selected text in not-focused gtk2 entries
- fixed 'menu-dark' mode popups of pathbar widgets contained in gtk3-csd titlebars (e.g. nautilus pathbar's popup in ClassicLooks Ambiance)
- other minor tweaks and fixes

fblais
1 day ago

Any chance you add an option to have handles on the scrollbar, please?
Thanks!

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isiisorisiaint
4 hours ago

yes, it should be relatively easy, but it will have to wait a little, for now i'm working on adding highlight colors on hovered/pressed buttons (this is important not just aesthetically, it's also an accessibility thing for... my mother :) plus, i'm really busy these days and i don't have time to work on this theme right now...

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fblais
4 hours ago

No problem, it's no hurry! :)
Thanks in advance!

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fblais
10 days ago

10 10 the best

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perfex
23 days ago

10 10 the best

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curancoll
1 month ago

10 10 the best

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cozytuna
1 month ago

10 10 the best

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iceler
1 month ago

10 10 the best

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radexkde
1 month ago

10 10 the best

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dshdsh
1 month ago

9 9 excellent

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Cr7NeTwOrK
1 month ago

10 10 the best

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Cr7NeTwOrK
1 month ago

Lovely clean theme for XFCE. Thank you very much!

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Cr7NeTwOrK
1 month ago

Can you please make a "ClassicLooks" with a dark panel version please? Thank you

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isiisorisiaint
1 month ago

you can make a copy of the ClassicLooks "base theme" folder and then customize your copy as you wish (see ClassicLooks/TOOLS/CONFIG/HACKING file in your themes dir). easy as pie :)

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Cr7NeTwOrK
1 month ago

I spent 2 hours trying to understand the HACKING text file but unfortunately didn't manage to make my hack work. I have technical knowledge of css but not how xfce panel and gtk theming works :/

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isiisorisiaint
1 month ago

Okay, when you say "dark panel" i understand you mean just the panel (the one with the window buttons, the clock, etc, usually placed at the top or bottom of the screen). If you want any other component of the theme, or the entire theme, to be made dark that's not possible, this is a light theme only, sorry :(.

Now, going back to your question (as i understood it): to change to panel of ClassicLooks to dark (like it is in e.g. ClassicLooks Greybird) then just open the files "/ClassicLooks/gtk-2.0/tweaks.css" _AND_ "/ClassicLooks/gtk-3.0/tweaks.css" and change the text "panel-contrast" to "panel-dark" in both of these files (there's also "panel-black" option, which is pitch-black and has flat buttons)

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fblais
23 days ago

I tried that with the base theme, to get the same panel as the Greybird variant, but, although the panel gets dark, the background of the whisker menu stays light, as well as the notification and pulseaudio plugins, so there must be something else to change I guess, since the Greybird variant displays correctly here. (Mint 19.2)

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fblais
23 days ago

And the panel-black option had the same "bug" by the way.

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isiisorisiaint
13 days ago

i really don't know what's going on on your system, i didn't receive this complaint before, and i cannot reproduce it on my Xubuntu system, see https://imgur.com/HwcdsRE

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fblais
13 days ago

Maybe it's the XFCE version.
I'm running Debian Buster which uses XFCE 4.12.5.

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isiisorisiaint
13 days ago

hmmm... did you make the change in _BOTH_ /gtk-2.0/tweaks.css _AND_ gtk-3.0/tweaks.css files?

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fblais
13 days ago

Yes!

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isiisorisiaint
12 days ago

k, i give up. if you say that 'greybird' looks okay but the modified base theme doesn't then i really don't know what's going on...

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fblais
11 days ago

Found the bug!
I had a missing semi-colon at the end of the @import panel-dark line in the GTK3 tweak css!
Sorry for the confusion, works great now!

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isiisorisiaint
10 days ago

kewl. i imafined it has something to do with gtk3 (because wiskers and pulseaudio plugins are gtk3), but i didn't think of you making a mistake in the syntax. anyways, all's well when it ends well :)

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1.2.5 21 days ago

1.2.2 1 month ago

- code cleanup in 'ClassicLooks XFWM' and 'ClassicLooks XFWM (HDPI)' window manager themes
- tweaked appearance of 'tab-notebook' (e.g. 'ClassicLooks Icelake') and 'tab-flat' (e.g. 'ClassicLooks Graphite') versions of gtk3 tabs
- other minor tweaks

1.2.1 1 month ago

- complete re-write of 'ClassicLooks XFWM (HDPI)' window manager theme to properly integrate with the 'window-frame-dark' option
- re-enabled the 'ClassicLooks XFWM (HDPI)' window manager theme and the 'dpi-high' version of gtk3-csd titlebars (these have been temporarily disabled in version 1.1.0)
- fixed color for check:hover and radio:hover on menu items (particularly useful for darker hover colors, e.g. 'ClassicLooks Redmond')
- fixed color for arrow.top:active and arrow.bottom:active on dark-mode menus
- minor corrections in 'INSTALL' file
- other minor tweaks and fixes

1.1.0 1 month ago

- new tweaking options: 'window-frame-themed/dark' and 'menu-themed/dark', see 'ClassicLooks/TOOLS/CONFIG/HACKING' file
- new 'ClassicLooks Ambiance' sub-theme to illustrate the 'window-frame-dark' and 'menu-dark' options
- complete re-write of the 'ClassicLooks XFWM' window manager theme to properly integrate with the 'window-frame-dark' option
- temporarily disabled the 'ClassicLooks XFWM (HDPI)' window manager theme and the 'dpi-high' mode of gtk3-csd titlebars (these will be re-enabled in the next stable release)