Victory (Strikes Again)

This theme was an attempt to allow everyone to pick a wide variety of colors and window borders. You can change the sidebar colors to any color you prefer, or if you prefer another window border, you can change the menubar color to make it blend together. This is my first time doing something like this, so there may be a lot of problems - Let me know. Thanks so much to everyone for help, feedback, comments, messages, voting, and fannage(?). Also, negative/critical feedback is just as (and sometimes more) important as any other. I don't know what down votes mean without it! Hope everyone enjoys. Thanks again!

- Darin


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How to Use


++ Colors ++

Several Gtk desktops have an Appearance Manager (see below), usually under the System menu, that allow you to customize a themes colors. If not, try this:

1. Open the file /home/yournamehere/.themes/Victory/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
2. Open the file /home/yournamehere/.themes/Victory/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
3. Open the file /home/yournamehere/.themes/Victory/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

Each of these files contain the color settings in the top of the files. The important parts are:

selected_fg_color
selected_bg_color

tooltip_fg_color
tooltip_bg_color

Here's what each one of those changes:

selected_fg_color = Sidebar Text Color
selected_bg_color = Sidebar Background Color

tooltip_fg_color = File Menu Text Color
tooltip_bg_color = File Menu Background Color

Just change the #xxxxxx to a color you like! Save, and log out and back in to see the changes!





++ Options ++

This theme offers options for light panels, light menus, Nautilus elementary, the ability to try old Victory styles, and more.

At the bottom of the gtkrc or gtk.css file (mentioned in Steps 1 and 2 of the color section), you will find a section called Options. Comment or Uncomment lines (add or remove a # at the beginning of the line or the /* at the beginning and */ at the end) to try different options. After making changes, save the file. You will have to change to another theme for a moment. Go back to the Victory theme, and your changes should appear.



++ Installing ++

To install, extract the downloaded tar.gz. Put the folders (Victory, Victory for Top Panels) in your themes directory. Then open your desktops Appearance Manager to select the theme.

Log out and back in to make sure all changes take effect (especially in Gnome 3)

If you would like root apps (Synaptic/Package Manager/GParted) to use your theme, try the following. Step 2 may give an error that there was no such folder. If so, ignore it and move on to Step 4.

1.) Open terminal and type:
2.) sudo mv /root/.themes /root/.themesbackup
3.) Hit enter, then type:
4.) sudo ln -s ~/.themes /root
5.) Hit enter



++ Important Things For The Above ++


+ Appearance Managers
- XFCE: xfce4-settings-manager
- LXDE: lxappearance (for Controls)
- LXDE: obconf (for Window Border)
- Gnome 2: gnome-appearance-properties
- Gnome 3: gnome-tweak-tool

+ Theme Directory
- /home/yournamehere/.themes

+ gtkrc theme file
- /home/yourname/.themes/Victory/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

+ gtk.css file
- /home/yourname/.themes/Victory/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

+ Terminal
- Go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal









Other Victory Themes


+ Victory Icon Collection
- http://newhoa.deviantart.com/art/Victory-Icon-Collection-188206119
-- A collection containing many icons from, and modified icons of several icon packs.

+ Victory Theme for Chromium and Google Chrome
- http://newhoa.deviantart.com/#/d3h2991

+ Victory Light Skin for the Opera Web Browser
- http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=11102
-- Almost matches New Wave theme

+ Victory Dark Skin for the Opera Web Browser
- http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=11092
-- Also matches default Ubuntu theme (Ambiance)
-- Also matches Divergence IV theme window border








More Screenshots

http://newhoa.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?action=content&content=124225
http://newhoa.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2p37ld










2012.03.16

If upgrading! Be sure to move (or delete) the original Victory folders from your themes folder before installing this. File names and folder structures have changed.


+ New: Gnome-Shell Theme
+ New: Gtk3/Gnome3 Theming (Beta)
+ New: Cinnamon Theme
+ New: Support for Mate Desktop Environment
+ New: Victory for Top Panels
-- Altered panel backgrounds and metacity window border
-- Window border becomes flat when maximized, blending Top Panel and Window Border
-- Works with Gnome 3, Gnome 2, Ubuntu, Cinnamon, Mate by default
-- Works with LXDE, XFCE when using Compiz
-- Remember to log out and back in after selecting this theme to see the changes
+ New: Marlin File Browser themed
+ New: GMusicBrowser themed
+ New: Support for Overlay Scrollbars
+ Updated: Latest apps in Gnome (Rhythmbox, Totem), LXDE (PCManFM, Parole), and XFCE
+ Updated: Unity Panel for Ubuntu 11.10
+ Option Added: Ambiance-like toolbars for Gtk3/Gnome3 (Ubuntu 11.10+)
-- This makes the toolbar dark, blending with the File Menu bar and/or the Title bar of the window border
-- Scroll to the bottom of the file: Victory > gtk-3.0 > gtk.css
-- Under "Options" and uncomment the ambiance-toolbars line.
-- Should look like this: @import url("styles/ambiance-toolbars.css");
-- Save, then log out and back in.
+ Changed: To avoid clutter, additional Window Borders (Dark and Variants) not added to .themes folder by default
-- All borders can befound in Victory > OptionsExtras > Extra Window Borders
-- Just drag them to your home/yournamehere/.themes folder, and select them in your window manager (may require restart)

2012.03.16b - Repackaged and reuploaded. Was having a problem with compression, causing the files for Cinnamon, Gnome-Shell, and a lot of other updates not to work. If you had any problems using this update, delete it, try it again, and let me know if anyone else is still having problems. Sorry!

2012.03.16 | c
Updated again on 2012-05-13.
This theme was created using Gtk3.2. They made some theme changes in Gtk3.4, so it doesn't look as intended. This update is a temporary fix for the biggest problem in Gtk3.4 - white text. Hopefully I can update the theme in the next month or so to address the rest of the problems.


Anyway, let me know what's good or bad, or if any apps aren't theming right or anything. Thanks again everyone... I really appreciate all the feedback and comments!