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Score 68.5%

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Quite simply, I hacked another theme in order to produce this one, I think it was the Arc-Dark theme. Its my first one and I really had no idea what I was doing. GTK widget factory helped a bit, but would be way way more useful if it would say tell you the object name in the CSS file by say hovering over it... Anyway, there is a shell theme and a GTK 2 and 3 theme files so... The only thing I couldnt find was the volume/brightness overlays and some other small things... Any help is appreciated.

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nebberz
1 year ago

9 +Looks great

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Frankula
3 years ago

Nice first try at modding a theme. If I may suggest; perhaps you might do better if you choose a newer theme instead of such an old one. And spend the time to change everything from the ground up, all the pixmaps and code, to give it a truly unique appearance that is above and beyond just changing the highlights.

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etienv
3 years ago

Comments in the script would have really helped. If you can suggest a better one (at least in comments) so I have a better idea what I am changing. An, idea I had, and something that could have really helped was if "GTK widget factory" was a little more help in what your changing. Say a hover effect that told you what element or what the object is.. Point is, i could have done better if I knew what it was I was editing, half the time I seen no effect of what I was doing or couldn't find the element it was referring too...

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Frankula
3 years ago

Perhaps one of these reference materials will help:

http://moonlightcoffee.weebly.com/gtk.html
http://www.chipwreck.de/blog/2010/02/17/mootools-transitions-explained/
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/ch03.html
http://worldofgnome.org/making-gtk3-themes-part-3-the-dark-side/
https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/gtk_theme
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/customize-gtk3-gtk2-theme-colors-using.html

I know it is quite confusing sometimes, and a lot like learning a language by being dropped off in a foreign country and told "you'll figure it out" over a bullhorn as the helicopter flies away. You can comment out and index the files if you wish to take the time to do that. I've started doing that with cinnamon files because they have grown to over 3600 lines of code. Who knows, other people might appreciate your effort. It takes time and a lot of trial and error. Go to the forums or IRC and ask if there is something you can't figure out. Someone will help you figure it out.

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sufit
3 years ago

look for "scale", im downloading to check it :)

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etienv
3 years ago

Not sure I get you...
I dont think it actually exist in the css files I edited... the part I am talking about is the volume overlay icons (some like 64pt or which ever the size is) when you use your keyboard to lower or turn up the volume, same with the brightness icon its also still white and as well has the icon labels on the dash/application menu

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