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Polar Theme

   0.3  

GTK 2.x Theme/Style

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jameshardy88jameshardy88
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Polar Theme
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Polar Theme
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Polar Theme
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Downloads:  2287
Submitted:  May 29 2009
Updated:  Jun 5 2009

Description:

Its been a very long road but I have finally released the first working version of the theme! I hope you enjoy it, let me know what you think and please feel free to leave criticism and suggestions.

::Background::

A theme that i have been working on to compliment my Polar Icons 2 theme (see link provided below). It has taken quite a long time for me to make so i apologise for the wait, this is partly due to all the widgets being novel to this theme (at least when i made it). This theme is intended to provide the slick looks of alot of the dark pixmap based themes and create a lighter one (something i have noticed is quite rare for some reason). This will remain an on-going project so any flaws noticed let me know and i will do my best to fix them.

::Planned changes::
-look into changing scrollbar
-look into changing progressbar

::Package includes::
-gtk theme
-metacity theme
-index.theme file
-emerald theme

::Links::
Polar Icons 2:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Polar+Icons+2?content=100614




Changelog:

0.0 - Preview
0.1 - First release
0.2 - Arrows fixed
0.3 - A few changes in line with suggestions




License: GPL
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 Tabs

 
 by thibaut28 on: May 31 2009  
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Maybe you should decrease the white blend slightly on the notebook (I think) image file ? I also think that the disabled entries are given too much contrast(dark grey against light blue). Maybe you should give them the same look as the active one, but with a much brighter font color. Also, what about giving that progressbars a little more relief on the through part( white one ), you could do this with one or 2 blends. These are just suggestions :) Keep up ;)


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 Re: Tabs

 
 by jameshardy88 on: May 31 2009  
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Hi Thibaut,

Thanks for your feedback and suggestions i agree with alot of what you are saying. I am currently already trying to lighten the disabled entries, as the current colour contrasts far too greatly with the rest of the theme, although i am as yet somewhat torn on exactly how i should go about it so thanks for your suggestion i will definitely be trying that =). The progressbars also definitely need to stand out more from their backgrounds so ill be working on them. Im a little confused as to what you mean by the notebook, are you refering to the metacity titlebar, menubar and toolbars?

Best regards,

James


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 Re: Re: Tabs

 
 by thibaut28 on: May 31 2009  
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I'm really glad I could be of help ;) By notebook I was meaning that large frame which comes right under the tabs, because the file corresponding is often named so. It's not that its colors contrast too much, but the frame will contain all that range of colors (from white to blue), which is rather wide. So you should check that every components (checkbox, buttons, frames) are still visible :) You choosed a dark font color, which is good because it'll always be readable ;)


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 Re: Re: Re: Tabs

 
 by jameshardy88 on: May 31 2009  
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Thankyou very much for your criticisms and advice, they have proved very constructive, i have actually now implemented or begun to implement changes in ALL the areas that you suggested so expect to see lots of your suggestions in the finished theme =)

Best regards,

James


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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Tabs

 
 by thibaut28 on: Jun 3 2009  
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This is shaping better and better ;) One last suggestion, and one of my guidelines when I draw some gtk themes (at least in my recent ones) : If you want to give the components a sharper look, there is a simple rule to follow. I see you use a black outline for your buttons for example. If you were using both a black outline and a whiter outline (see http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Abstract.DarkGlow+Pack?content=88060 for example. Look mostly for tabs, notebook and buttons) I think the overall theme would look a bit cleaner ;)

Thanks again for listening to me :)

Best regards,

Thibaut


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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Tabs

 
 by jameshardy88 on: Jun 3 2009  
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Thanks for the suggestion, after viewing your theme i have to say i think i agree, ill give it a try and if it works (im expecting it to) it'll be on the next release. Btw i love Abstract.DarkGlow its a very professional and highly polished theme well done.

Best regards,

James


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 font!

 
 by musicman67 on: May 31 2009  
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What's the font on your screenshot? I want you too :)


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 Re: font!

 
 by jameshardy88 on: May 31 2009  
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Its called Zekton it can be found here...

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Zekton?content=50553


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 Super!!!

 
 by kai100 on: Jun 1 2009  
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sssssssssssuper work my friend :)

thank you :)


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 Re: Super!!!

 
 by jameshardy88 on: Jun 2 2009  
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Thanks Kai =)


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 Great

 
 by chech on: Jun 1 2009  
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Great work... I would like and emerald theme with rounded buttons ;).... thanks for this one...


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 Re: Great

 
 by jameshardy88 on: Jun 2 2009  
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Ill see what i can do for you


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 Nice concept, awesome buttons!

 
 by switzak on: Jun 3 2009  
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You got something good going on here. I love the buttons and the whole concept is interesting.

Now for the things i think needs improvement. The background for the progress bar has to high contrast in comparison with the rest of the theme. The scrollbar feels a little out of place. Maybe round off the corners? And finally the border between pixmaps and engine colored areas seem kind of sharp, maybe its just my color settings.

I realize this is an early release and look forward to an updated version, whether you take my opinion into consideration or not. =)

Keep up the good work!


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 Re: Nice concept, awesome buttons!

 
 by jameshardy88 on: Jun 3 2009  
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Tyvm for your ideas, I have to admit the scrollbar and progressbar have both been areas i also felt still needed a little work so i will probably have a go at improving both of them. Would you mind giving me an example of where the pixmaps and engine colored areas are sharp so i can get a better idea of what you mean.

Thanks again for your suggestions, keep your eyes peeled to see theme in this theme soon =) Best regards,

James


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 Re: Re: Nice concept, awesome buttons!

 
 by switzak on: Jun 3 2009  
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Nice to hear, looking forward to it. I made a picture to explain what i mean with the pixmap and engine colored ares.

http://pici.se/pictures/WZKyRRIMx.png

Now I don't have any experience with pixmap engines so I'm not to sure how to go about "fixing" this. But maybe add a middle segment to separate the areas, kind of like the thin borders on the buttons. And/or adding some kind of pixmap background instead of having engine colored areas.

Well this is just my personal opinion so everyone might not think this needs "fixing".


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 How to install it on ubuntu?

 
 by xknt on: Jun 3 2009  
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please, sombdy can tell me how 2 install these theme, plss...i'm new on linux...


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 Re: How to install it on ubuntu?

 
 by jameshardy88 on: Jun 3 2009  
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Sure, what you need to do after downloading a theme is move the downloaded file onto your desktop (just to make things easier) then open your appearance settings under System>Preferences>Appearance. Then you need to left click on your new theme folder (in this case called polar that you placed on your desktop) then select create archive. This will create a file called polar.tar.gz. then simply drag and drop the file onto your appearance preferences window whilst on the themes tab. This will install the theme. Let me know if you have any problems ill be happy to help.

Best of luck,

James


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