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Update 3/12/2012: nowerries [link] found out how to fix the Ubuntu Software Center colors and here are the instructions Thanks buddyHey just read the thread and though you might like my fix for USC on dark colored themes.
"Only bug I have noticed so far is fonts unreadable in Ubunut Software Center the fix for this is to in terminal type...
sudo gedit /usr/share/software-center/ui/gtk3/css/softwarecenter.css
.... and change the color value of @define-color super-light-aubergine to what ever color you want to define background."
What this means is say you want it black just change the @define-color super-light-aubergine to #000000 I'm looking into how I can add this css file into my themes so it will look to that instead of the one he mentions in /usr/share/software-center/ui/gtk3/css but until then try it it does work
Update 2/25/2012: Just cleaned some code up
Update 2/24/2012: Fixed Unity Panel and GTK-2 the combobox, selected text, tabs and a few other settings
Major Update 2/20/2012: Complete overhaul I used my Black Widow GTK theme but changed all the red to white/Grey. I think this one blows the old one away as I have a better understanding of GTK themes now.
This is based originally off of Adwaita but completely re-done. Once again I used the window borders from ANewStartBlood by *alecive [link] Thanks to him for making awesome borders
This one uses the same name SO IT WILL OVERWRITE THE OLD ONE.....Let me know what you think in the comments below.
Oh yeah the gnome shell theme is something I did and am releasing it now so check it out I called it Clear-GS It's my GS Back-n-Black with the panel transparent
Updated 2/07/2012:Unity panel now displays the right colors. Fixed a few highlighting here and there. Still trying to figure out firefox. If anyone has an idea let me know.
Updated 1/25/2012 v3: I fixed the problem when copying the theme to /usr/share/themes it all looks good now. I uploaded the changes
Updated 1/21/2010: I changed the progress bar to have more of a radius. Fixed the selected check boxes to have a grey border (so you can see where to put the check in them).
Updated 1/19/2012: Okay added the fix for evolution and changed the screenshots so you can see some kde apps with this theme oh and also I changed the icons to Steel from [link] per my friend rvc-2011 over at gnome-look [link] and changed the buttons back to grey until you hover over the close
Updated 1/18/2012: Okay I changed the the close button to grey and when you hover over it it's red now. Thanks to ~THIRSTYGNOME for the suggestion. I didn't update the screenshot cause I think you know what I'm talking about
Update 1/17/2012: I finished this black gtk theme as you can see in the screenshots it looks pretty good. I fixed the problem with the highlights by changing the highlight color to a darker grey and using straight white for the font in the highlighted area. All credit goes to original authors [link] alecive . I love the window borders he created. and to [link] m4xm4n
for this theme [link]
I learned that dark themes look cool but are a pain in the a$$ to tweak LOL!!
Hey all,
This was requested, so I thought I would mess around with straight black and this Black GTK theme is turning out pretty good so far. I have a ton still to do, but what do you guys think?
I have this theme done pretty much but I'm having a problem with the gtk-2 any app like firefox, banshee. When you click on the menu it looks fine, but the grey highlight selection you can't read the highlighted text. Anyone know how to fix this? This is probably happening to all the gtk themes I have tweaked so far. I've spent a few hours modifying things and cannot figure it out.
Feedback is much appreciated good or bad
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Comments: 135
CraazyT In reply to ??? [2017-04-28 15:37:14 +0000 UTC]
Sorry,
I haven't used gnome in years using KDE, I have no idea how to fix it.
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CA3D0 [2013-05-20 15:38:51 +0000 UTC]
I really like the theme but for example in Nautilus all the Pictures on the buttons have black Squares around them, any way around that?
BTW I am using Cinnamon on Ubuntu 13.04
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satya164 [2012-06-12 21:59:37 +0000 UTC]
Hi, to fix the software center background you probably need to change the background-image for GtkTreeView. Use a gradient, background-color will not work.
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CraazyT In reply to satya164 [2012-06-12 23:38:46 +0000 UTC]
Hi,
Thank you, but I stopped using gnome. I switched to kde so I'm not updating those.
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uffi69 [2012-04-05 16:39:32 +0000 UTC]
where did you take the icons that you use in your theme?
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MWetzel65 [2012-03-01 04:13:13 +0000 UTC]
Still doesn't wanna be used in Mint 12 though. No matter what I do, I can't get it to show up as a theme option.
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CraazyT In reply to MWetzel65 [2012-03-01 13:26:51 +0000 UTC]
Did you try just copying it to you /home/yourusername/.themes folder? Then use gnome-tweak-tool to select it. I have all mythemes in my .themes folder but I know some like it in /usr/share/themes
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MWetzel65 In reply to CraazyT [2012-03-01 15:20:30 +0000 UTC]
If I have a .themes folder, I haven't seen it yet, even changing the "view" to "show hidden files" doesn't do anything.
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CraazyT In reply to MWetzel65 [2012-03-01 15:53:29 +0000 UTC]
Then create it make sure you name it just like this .themes
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THIRSTYGNOME In reply to CraazyT [2012-02-29 01:28:13 +0000 UTC]
I dont either! but it would make following your themes so much easier!
[link] - quick google search looked promising
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CraazyT In reply to THIRSTYGNOME [2012-02-29 01:34:49 +0000 UTC]
Sounds like more work haha!!!
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THIRSTYGNOME [2012-02-25 04:55:20 +0000 UTC]
does this fix the ubuntu update glich, or software center my friend?
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CraazyT In reply to THIRSTYGNOME [2012-02-25 14:24:39 +0000 UTC]
No, I'm still trying to figure that one out
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mmesantos1 In reply to CraazyT [2012-02-21 21:35:28 +0000 UTC]
Your welcome Tommy. Doing some real nice work on these themes buddy.
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CraazyT In reply to mmesantos1 [2012-02-21 23:38:32 +0000 UTC]
Thanks buddy, I totally appreciate it
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THIRSTYGNOME [2012-02-21 17:13:07 +0000 UTC]
hey with this new updated theme i notice that the ubuntu update manager is pink when it starts looking for updates, then goes black... is this a problem on my end, or is this a problem for editing your black widow theme?
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CraazyT In reply to THIRSTYGNOME [2012-02-21 17:25:16 +0000 UTC]
Don't know. I have ubuntu installed on another computer I'll take a look at it when I get time.
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CraazyT In reply to THIRSTYGNOME [2012-02-21 00:38:44 +0000 UTC]
Yeah what do you think? I think it looks pretty awesome!! I made the menu selection have a gradient and tweaked a few other settings.
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CraazyT In reply to THIRSTYGNOME [2012-02-21 00:42:30 +0000 UTC]
Thanks buddy....I still haven't figured out a way to fix firefox it looks ok but when you type on a web page in text box it's grayed out kinda.....but oh well I use chromium and it has a tweak with it now that looks sweet!!!
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THIRSTYGNOME In reply to CraazyT [2012-02-21 00:53:24 +0000 UTC]
is chromium faster on your machines then g.c.? On my machine g.c. is faster then chromuim
you know i was once a diehard firefox till i tried chrome, so the whole open source and closed source version of the same browser is still kinda confusing?
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CraazyT In reply to THIRSTYGNOME [2012-02-21 00:59:33 +0000 UTC]
I'm not sure, I've never really tried chrome I always install chromium. Yeah I was a die-hard ff user too but. Basically I think chromium is just the dev version of chrome.
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CraazyT In reply to THIRSTYGNOME [2012-02-15 02:22:43 +0000 UTC]
gnome-look.org has been updated
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CraazyT In reply to THIRSTYGNOME [2012-02-10 02:43:10 +0000 UTC]
I thought I did...I've had problems on that site half the time when I try to upload something it errors out then all the things I just typed are gone. thanks for reminding me
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CraazyT [2012-02-07 22:40:42 +0000 UTC]
I tied adding userContent.css and userChrome.css to the theme and reference it in the gtk.css but it still has no effect. I noticed the theme has these referenced in it:
define-color os_chrome_bg_color #000000;
@define-color os_chrome_fg_color #eeeeee;
@define-color os_chrome_selected_bg_color #646464;
@define-color os_chrome_selected_fg_color #000000;
Are these settings for firefox? I never really have touched them.
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cbowman57 [2012-02-07 16:41:53 +0000 UTC]
For the firefox text box problem I think I got this from alecive (not positive)
In ~/.mozilla/firefox/userprofile/chrome create the file userChrome.css and insert this in it:
input {
border: 2px inset white;
background-color: white;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
textarea {
border: 2px inset white;
background-color: white;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
select {
border: 2px inset white;
background-color: white;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
input[type="radio"],
input[type="checkbox"] {
border: 2px inset white ! important;
background-color: white ! important;
color: ThreeDFace ! important;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
*|*::-moz-radio {
background-color: white;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
button,
input[type="reset"],
input[type="button"],
input[type="submit"] {
border: 2px outset white;
background-color: #eeeeee;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
body {
background-color: white;
color: black;
display: block;
margin: 8px;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
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CraazyT In reply to cbowman57 [2012-02-07 16:48:48 +0000 UTC]
Sweet man I'll try it and if it works I'll add it to the description thanks
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cbowman57 In reply to CraazyT [2012-02-07 17:31:14 +0000 UTC]
Oh, if you find that it works maybe we should just start adding that file to the theme tarball.
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CraazyT In reply to cbowman57 [2012-02-07 17:41:20 +0000 UTC]
Yeah I tried it and it didn't work I didn't have even have the userprofile folder so created it and put the userChrome.css in that (I didn't log out though hmm...I'll try it when I get time
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cbowman57 In reply to CraazyT [2012-02-07 17:52:59 +0000 UTC]
Yes, in most cases the folder will have to be created. It's also possible that FF has created multiple defaults, some might be prefixed by something like this ~/.mozilla/firefox/39sue8ke.default/chrome
I don't have time to test all the combinations but within that folder I have a userContent.css
Wherever it was I found that tip I think they mentioned that oddball folder name, though the characters & digits will of course be different than what I've given as an example.
You can also use Stylish to apply the fix but this method is superior IMO.
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cbowman57 In reply to CraazyT [2012-02-07 17:30:14 +0000 UTC]
Might have to use userContent.css, it's been awhile & I have the same data in both files.
In one of my gtk themes I was actually able to workaround the problem by adding it to an existing /apps/ff.css in the gtk-2.0 (ChocoLatte) but I just got lucky I think.
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CraazyT In reply to cbowman57 [2012-02-07 21:58:47 +0000 UTC]
Sweet!! I'll check into that, that would workout for all my dark themes you know thanks for the help
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cbowman57 In reply to CraazyT [2012-02-07 22:12:37 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, hope you can figure it out one way or another. The text box problem in FF has been with us quite awhile, be nice to slip in a fix that will probably spread over time.
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CraazyT In reply to cbowman57 [2012-02-07 22:20:16 +0000 UTC]
Oh great!! so I'm working on a fix that even the most experienced haven't fugured out yet LOL!!! just kidding still that's funny
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cbowman57 In reply to CraazyT [2012-02-07 23:05:20 +0000 UTC]
Well I think I stumbled upon it by accident, unless I did it somewhere else and just didn't realize it, but if I did it happened on about 3 different distros & installations.
What I was doing was looking for a way to get FF to read the info from the Stylish or userContent.css fix, since they both are similar. When I found those files and looked at the format it appeared that it would work, & I think it did. Now ChocoLatte gtk was derived from Old Steampunk derived from Atolm which I think was derived from Elementary.
I made an error earlier, it's in the /ChocoLatte/gtk-2.0/Apps directory, the filename is ff.rc.
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miguelsanchez666 [2012-02-07 16:24:12 +0000 UTC]
awesome work CraazyT
I might want to try 12.04 tonight
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CraazyT In reply to miguelsanchez666 [2012-02-07 16:48:01 +0000 UTC]
Thank you my friend This theming is tough when your learning as you go
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miguelsanchez666 In reply to CraazyT [2012-02-07 17:29:43 +0000 UTC]
downloading 12.04 now. will see what happens as I might be unity hater
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