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The Greyhound Theme

0.7.3

GTK 2.x Theme/Style

Score 71%

JohnnyJu
TheLinuxBeau tyProject

Minimum required GTK 2.x
Downloads: 13844

Submitted: Oct 14 2008
Updated: Jan 10 2009

Description:

VERSION 0.7.3

A straight & subtotal dark theme, with a focus on a quiet look and compatibility with openoffice, web-browsers, web-sites, evolution, thunderbird etc...

> > > >feedback wanted< < < <

-code completely reworked and rewritten-
-newest svn-murrine-engine strongly recommended-

inside the tar-ball you'll find:
-Emerald-theme: "greyhoundEMERALDnew"
-wallpaper (modified "white tiger")

original great wallpaper from cb2k is here:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/White+Tiger?content=91800

original great Emerald-theme can be found here:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/mac%27a%27like?content=91867

The Icons are a mix I made between the
"Smokikon 0.9", "Black&White2" and the "MinimalPerception"-Icon-Set and some icons i made myself. As soon I published them, I will put here the link.

I use the newest Cairo-Dock from svn with openGL.
Installation-guide for svn-version is here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=993952&page=3

thx to thuban who made an openbox-version, d-link below

I'm working on it, check for updates and ENJOY!

Changelog:

v0.7.3
-workaround for compiz config settings manager, that way options are readable again
-desktop-applet got a better text-entry

v0.7.2
-found better solution for removing ugly murrine dots from selected items
-fixed several invisible text / arrows-issues in widgets and lists
-slight modification of scrollbar

v0.7.1
-important fix-

-commented out "style = MURRINE" option, which leads to conflicts under different murrine-engine-versions (thx to tksmashiw for his very useful hint)

-added a great new feature:
mozilla-browsers got own check- and radio-buttons that fit better with most web-sites out there

-fixed notify-widgets background color on non ubuntu-boxes (it was white, should be gray now)

-removed ugly white murrine dots on some widgets)

License: GPL

(TheGreyhoundTheme_v0.7.3)

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(thuban's OPENBOX version (NOT FOR GNOME))

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Best Dark Theme Nomination

by Jimbo99 on: Dec 18 2008

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Jimbo99

Well, dark themes tend to be done by younger kids and newborn adults that focus on how the screen looks when they are 4 inches from it. That hurts their overall color scheme as they must feel that it looks good up close so it should look good farther away.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. Dark schemes tend to overdo the dark aspect without contrasting colors. Examples are light gray text on the menus or on white backgrounds. That simply dulls or makes it look faded. It doesn't help with the eye-hand coordination. We don't want to think about what we are clicking on, we just want it to be a semi-visual key as to which to pick.

For instance, even though blue is used they tend to forget that the inverse of blue is yellow and that to put a dark gray or red selector doesn't help at all in determining what we have clicked on. You put white on black or black on white but never gray on white or yellow on white.

This theme tends to cover that though the yellows aren't used as an inverse of blue. Even so, what has been done with it makes the scheme more consistent.

The dark scrollbars does affect the theme negatively. It should be a gray background with a ligher scrollbar, even a blue one would work, though blue doesn't really fit. Even so, a change is necessary to make the scroll bar more visible than it is now.

I think, from my initial review of it that's where this theme stands. In the past week I have looked at so many dark themes that finding one like this is a real pleasure. I can't tell you how many times dark black has been set as the backdrop to some other dark color, making it unusable.

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Re: Best Dark Theme Nomination

by JohnnyJu on: Dec 18 2008

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JohnnyJu
TheLinuxBeau tyProject

thank you very much for your review!

you are right: scrollbars have to be changed and they will. this is an interim solution till i got the time to do them with inkscape or with murrine, but the last things i tried were not nice. so this is indeed a weak point.

and yes, i am really trying hard to take care of nice contrasts, that is were the most work goes, but you will still find occasionally a semi-white button with white text, especially on web-sites,
i am working on it though and think to have fixed this issues with release version 0.7

thx for your time :)
byebye!

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Re: Re: Best Dark Theme Nomination

by Jimbo99 on: Dec 18 2008

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Jimbo99

I noticed in pidgin that the name at the top (the name of the person I'm chatting with) is black on dark gray (not so dark black). Also, I noticed the progress bar in the copy files dialog is black color on dark so I have to take a focused look just to see how far it has progressed. Also, the lower right hand corner of the windows normally where you'd see something indicating resize (not the mouse pointer) -- you can see it in other dark themes-- you might want to have something there.

I think your choice of icon themes isn't to my tastes. What I am finding is that with these themes we have theme designers actually altering the icon theme choice. As an FYI, I chose mine for a reason. That means that the theme designer would make me happier if they didn't alter my choice. If I'm correct it is possible to create the color portion of the theme, without the need to require any icons (in other words, just forget to reference the icons). Unfortunately I have no knowledge about how to alter these files other than I looked at the theme text file and the gtkrc associated with it.

So, some more things you can pick at to come up with a better solution.

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Re: Re: Re: Best Dark Theme Nomination

by JohnnyJu on: Dec 19 2008

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JohnnyJu
TheLinuxBeau tyProject

hey, thanks for that hint, i never use pidgin, so i never saw that.
but it is fixed now!
I will upload it soon along with other fixes around weekend or begin next week..

the process-bar is too dark, that is true, like the scroll-bars it is an interim solution, but i am working on it..
and will be fixed in 0.7

if u see more i should know, just tell let me know!..
byebye

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Terminal read out

by coz on: Dec 19 2008

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coz

hey guy,
Ok here is the terminal readout when having gcalctool opened and switching to greyhound;

error: unexpected identifier `gradient_shades', expected character `}'

Also , no none of the dust themes work either with similar errors;;

error: unexpected identifier `colorize_scrollbar', expected character `}'

coz

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UDATE ON greyhound

by coz on: Dec 19 2008

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coz

Hey guy,
I just reinstalled murrine svn and all is working well.
sorry to have put you through this!
next time a second look at the install should prevent me from complaining too soon :)
thanks again for the time and I do like the theme.
i find that creating dark themes are the most difficult..values matching..proper hues etc etc.

coz

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Re: UDATE ON greyhound

by JohnnyJu on: Dec 19 2008

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JohnnyJu
TheLinuxBeau tyProject

ah, good news,
and yes you re right, dark is very challenging :)
thxss!

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Created an openbox theme

by thuban on: Dec 30 2008

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thuban

I tried to make an openbox theme matching with your gtk theme.
If you want to add a link :

http://www.box-look.org/content/show.php?content=96078

If you want me to remove it, or have any suggestions, do not hesitate!

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progressbar in transmission

by thuban on: Dec 30 2008

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thuban

Just a small question. Would you change progressbar in transmission : they are blue and flat.
The other prograssbar are black and grey, and animated, they look very fine! but in transmission (maybe other programs?)...

Good luck for your work!

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Re: progressbar in transmission

by JohnnyJu on: Dec 30 2008

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JohnnyJu
TheLinuxBeau tyProject

ha! yes, that is true!
they are flat.. i'll work on that and will be included on release 0.7, which i am working on very hard for some weeks now :)

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Some feedback

by thuban on: Dec 30 2008

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thuban

As you asked, there is a few think I noticed :

Text in notifications can't be read. (for guake, It use Libnotify I think...)

The same thing in Mplayer to choose skins

Scrollbar seems enormous compared to buttons of the scrollbar.

Thank you for transmission and the link ;)

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