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Have been fiddling about, trying to make a new look with a gtk theme. Without knowing much about how it all works, merely some mods to a copy and a bit of time spent trial&error and checking the results. So far it's almost useable, as far as I can tell; the main hangup for me being a foreground-text issue on active tabs (screenshot here ). Would appreciate any help from the gtk-gurus here if they're not too terribly occupied with all the holiday stuff, etc Smile

- the attached NUdark.zip is NOT a finished product-as-such (but any advice on how to fix would be welcome, thanks).

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 19 Dec 2008, 06:36 Post subject:

Here ya go, now its black text Smile

looks good
ttuuxxx

just install the pet and it will over write your old version Wink

`f00 · Posted: Fri 19 Dec 2008, 13:25 Post subject:

tthaanxxx ttuuxxx!

pa_mcclamrock · Posted: Tue 10 Feb 2009, 21:57 Post subject:

Is there a little tutorial somewhere on the basics of installing and modifying GTK+ 2.0 themes, complete with beginner's explanations of "theme engines" and things like that? (These themes don't look quite as easy to understand and use as, say, IceWM themes!) If so, thanks in advance for letting me know!

David McClamrock

ttuuxxx · Posted: Wed 11 Feb 2009, 12:41 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Wed 11 Feb 2009, 12:53 Post subject:

also theme engines like clearlooks or murrine are basically drivers that run a certain type of gtk2 theme, and sometimes supports window managers with the themes, murrine can be stricktly gtk2 or it can be gtk2 plus metacity, which doesn't work with puppy, but murrine is a good place to start playing around with Smile

here's a link to it, its 38kb includes the theme engine and 14 themes, located in /usr/share/themes
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=14926

ttuuxxx

pa_mcclamrock · Posted: Wed 11 Feb 2009, 22:04 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Wed 11 Feb 2009, 22:56 Post subject:

pa_mcclamrock · Posted: Tue 17 Feb 2009, 06:46 Post subject:

OK, I think I'm starting to catch on a bit! Here are a few screenshots of Pmusic with different Clearlooks themes I'm working on.

Clearlooks-Winterblue:

Clearlooks-Autumnalia:

Clearlooks-RoyalPurple2 (I think there's already a Clearlooks-RoyalPurple theme):

I'm typing this message in SeaMonkey with the Clearlooks-Winterblue theme; I don't think I'll be using the same old silver-gray themes too much any more!

I just have one question for anyone who may be able to answer it: What's "PRELIGHT"? I see that there are four big categories of colors--to oversimplify a bit: "bg" (window background), "fg" (window text), "base" (text and list background), and "text" (text in text and list boxes). Each one has five specifications: NORMAL, PRELIGHT, SELECTED, ACTIVE, and INSENSITIVE. I can see what all of them mean except PRELIGHT. Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer this!

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 17 Feb 2009, 06:58 Post subject:

pa_mcclamrock · Posted: Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:21 Post subject:

Here are screenshots of three more Clearlooks themes, plus a "Clearlooks-Colorschemes" .PET containing all six of mine (requires, obviously, GTK+ 2.0 or greater, plus the Clearlooks theme engine).

(EDIT 2009 Feb 22: These screenshots and the ones above are of what I hope are the final, tweaked versions of the themes, and I've substituted them for the originals. The .PET attached to this message now has these, not the un-tweaked originals. If anyone thinks they need still more tweaking, just let me know.)

Clearlooks-Aquaviva:

Clearlooks-Greenery:

Clearlooks-MamaRose (my wife's favorite):

These themes are just plain text files, about 4 KB or so each uncompressed. If you want to tweak them or create your own using them as templates, here are some basic things you need to know (if you don't already):

All color codes in these themes are in "#RRGGBB" format, two hexadecimal digits for red, two for blue, two for green, always enclosed by "# on the left and " on the right.

"fg" means window foreground; "bg" is window background; "base" is, e.g., textbox and listbox background; "text" is, e.g., textbox and listbox text.

The meanings of "NORMAL," "SELECTED," and "INSENSITIVE" should be obvious. "PRELIGHT" is, e.g., the color you see when you mouse over a menu item (as I now know). "ACTIVE" is kind of like "SELECTED," only for when the window doesn't have focus (so far as I can figure out).

In addition to the 20 color selections near the top, there are also scattered ones farther down: "clearlooks-button" for buttons, "clearlooks-notebook" for tabs, "clearlooks-menu" for menu background, "clearlooks-menu-item" for menu text color during mouse-over, plus "clearlooks-frame-title," "clearlooks-tooltips," and "clearlooks-progressbar" (should be obvious, I hope).

Finally, be warned: if you make even one little mistake--like leaving out a quotation mark, a pound sign, a color code, or any other little thing--GTK+ 2.0 (or greater) will punish you severely. How? It will make your beautiful theme look exactly like the ugly "Default" theme, that's how! Not only that, but (unlike Tk or Gnocl) it won't give you any friendly, helpful error messages telling you where to look for the problem. Is it worth it? Well . . . you be the judge.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 19 Feb 2009, 21:28 Post subject:

steve_s · Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 1599 Location: Austin, TX, USA

Hey, crew…I realized that I had done both of these, that I liked ‘em so much I use ‘em regularly on my desktop, but that I hadn’t shared ‘em.

They are straight up mutations, putting green where there was blue.

The jwm theme is a mutation of WhoDo’s Vista theme, and I’ve labeled it (get this): Vista-green.

And the gtk theme is a mutation of one of the Clearlook gtk themes with 4.2 (Clearlooks DeepSky).

I’ll post the jwm theme on the jwm themes thread and the gtk theme on the gtk themes thread…so, forgive the double post (sort of) but each thread is a different deal…

Enjoy!