GTK dark theme (Murrine engine)

You can download a new dark gtk theme here. It uses the Murrine Engine. It is light and eye friendly :)

Is not finished yet so any improvement is welcome.

I want in orange too the top horizontal line in active tabs, and left vertical line in menu.

New GTK Theme & clearlooks mockup

Some time ago i created a dark theme for gtk called DarkBlue. Now i updated it and change the name to DarkNice BLue. Now a little ChangeLog:

capt-darkniceOriginally uploaded by jalbertosl.

• less darker so yet eye friendly
• more legible and friendly with TFT monitors
• more polite and clear code
• still dark and cool :)
• i will made soon an orange variant

So it have 2 known bugs, if somebody can help me with this :D ….

tema-bug-02Originally uploaded by jalbertosl.

Bug one:

The slider control have a nice gradient, so this gradient doesnt works in the scrollbar control.

Other bug:

tema-bug-01Originally uploaded by jalbertosl.

Bug two:

in the url box of epiphany and in deskbar the widget have some stange behavior, the blue line is not full drew. why? i don’t know so in my ibook more strange, it draws a black square in the box..

Strange right?

If you find more bugs tell me :)

mockupOriginally uploaded by jalbertosl.

Well i was playing with the clearlook gtk-engine and i whink in a few nice features :

1. title and menu bar unified: can be very nice tiger style with a nice gradient or similar :)
2. Menu & submenu highlight: a border in the active menu and submenu can be very nice too.
3. highlight default button: the default/active button will be highlighted with a line (ala macos too).

nautilus mockups

Just some images to about a few new ideas for nautilus. This ideas can be very usefull, because it helps you to know in what folder, or special folder are you.
Nautilus-cd-burn really need a visible “burn” buton and a bar that calc the space used to burn the files in the device.

nautilus cd-burner bug
nautilus general bug

cd

Originally uploaded by jalbertosl.

When you open a device, the current icon of the device will be showed in a background corner of nautilus.

foto

Originally uploaded by jalbertosl.

If you open a folder with an emblem, The emblem will be showed in the bg-corner and in all the subfolders.

home

Originally uploaded by jalbertosl.

Special folders, like home folder, will use an special icon in nautilus background.

trash

Originally uploaded by jalbertosl.

If you open the trash, the current trash icon will be used in nautilus bg-corner.

nautilus-burn

Originally uploaded by jalbertosl.

the nautilus-cd-burn window will use the cd-r, dvd-r, etc icon in the background-corner and an special bar at top showing the “burn” button and a bar with the used and free space of the device. n-cd-b must autodetect the media type to calculate the free space. Can be a nice idea too a combobox button to selec the type of burn, audio or data.

Hacking with gtk themes

I was bored of my gtk bright theme, so i was searching for a new theme, a dark theme. But i didn’t find a perfect theme. So i created my own one :P
Is based/inspired on darkcoffe2 and Chatsubo using the ClearLooks gtk-engine (yes, i love the animated progress bar :P)

The theme is ClearLooks-DarkBlue-0.5 and of course a screenshot

The theme is not perfect (yet) so any comment is welcome. If you like, or not, it drop me a comment :)

In other hand, ikke made an script with ideas from recursos.sh so only for plain text. is a nice script :)

I never did one before so i learned a lot about gtkrc file. Was a hard find all colors and values so i will include a lil description of some values :