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Dark Ice

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Description:

My first GTK2 theme. It's based on RoyaltyBlack. Metacity, panel background and start icon are included.

To make panel transparent go to panel options and choose panelbg_black.png as a background.

To use my start button run gconf-editor, go to: /apps/panel/objects/object_0/
choose custom_icon, set a path to startbutton.png and tick use_custom_icon .

There are still few bugs with font colours.

Last changelog:

13 years ago

0.3
added metacity frames.
changed the font colour to make it more visible.
changed the background colour to less bright.
new scrollbars and progressbars
0.3.1
fixed a bug with a combo button.

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picolo
9 years ago

nice ... thank you

litemirrors
11 years ago

This doesn't seem to work anymore (Lucid) but I decided to use the Window Border which does seem ok to use. Thanks :D

Can I have permission to use this when I make Ubuntu videos on YouTube? Thanks!

Cityy
12 years ago

...I've a problem changing the panel background. If I replace panel-bg.png nothing happens - even after restarting my system nothing changed. Any ideas?

Nice theme - keep up good work :)

Cityy
12 years ago

OK panel problem is solved.

I used your theme to create another gtk theme - take a look:

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/CT-gtk?content=106036

leonbahamut
12 years ago

my new theme too i was looking for this for days jaja

:D

JotamanX
12 years ago

Nice job man! my new favorite theme XD

GenuineXP
12 years ago

Which GTK theming engine does this theme use? I get a warning in GNOME's Appearance Preferences that the GTK+ theme engine '' is not installed (i.e., some engine that apparently has no name).

So, which engine do I need? I can't seem to apply the Metacity window borders without it.

Thanks.

pfeoora
12 years ago

looks pretty nice! It's a little too glossy to me, but I like it!

unique
13 years ago

Man this theme is so AWESOME!!!! I love it!

rocketpcguy
13 years ago

could you make an alternative version that does not have that line separating the titlebar and window?

it may be a usability issue, since the user may not know clearly where to click to drag the window, but many do not use the title bar to move windows (and uses alt+drag instead). so they can benefit from a more sexier desktop ;)

themer
13 years ago

love it! Incredible! :p

sabrebutt
13 years ago

I liked your theme so much I made an emerald theme for it. Hope you like it.
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Dark+Ice+Emerald?content=70284

JotamanX
12 years ago

thanks for share it! it's really good

lightrush
13 years ago

PLEASE, dark fonts....NO - BLACK fonts. The theme is beautiful enough - now please make it USABLE! :D

nameless
13 years ago

This is the best theme I have ever seen!!!! Great work, man!

The BEST!!!

ashtray
13 years ago

great job, man!

by the way, can you tell me what is the icon theme on the screenshot (it looks very nice)?

and can you do a white variation of this theme?.. I think a lot of people would be happy with this..

freakcode
13 years ago

Really cool how you managed to match the menubar and the Metacity with the black-glossy thing, you really pushed the GTK theming features on this one. The menu highlights are pretty good too.

The theme is a bit slow because of the pixmaps. You could improve the theme turning it on a GTK engine, which generally is faster (and more flexible too). The theme has some compatibility issues too, with non-true-GTK apps (XUL apps), but that's not your fault (if you managed to turn it into an engine, the level of success on XUL apps may increase too).

Anyway, great job! Congratulations!

taliesin
13 years ago

Really nice and ergonomic design, except sliders. I will prefer to leave them in default behavior.

ofir
13 years ago

First of all, this theme is the best black theme I ever seen!

Great job! ;)

I just wanted to inform you about a problem when trying to use this theme and OpenOffice.org
Every time I try to open a dialog in OOo, it just crashes.
What I can do about it, and why it happens

And one more thing, why applications run by root (like synaptic) don't use this theme? (or at least use the default theme [Human])

Regards,
Ofir

AnsheShem
13 years ago

Seems like it's a common ooffice bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/131526. I don't really know how to fix it. It happens with every theme i have installed on my pc. The funny thing is when i start ooffice from console it works well without any errors.
As for 2nd question. Just copy the theme to /usr/share/themes.

ofir
13 years ago

Thanks for the quick answer.

If this is a common bug, then I guess someone thinks how to fix it. So I just wait for the fix.

And, again, great theme!

8handed
13 years ago

If you want apps like synaptic to use your custom installed themes you need to copy your ~/.themes/theme folder to /root/.themes/theme || Or just make a symlink.

ramios
13 years ago

Magnificent!!! Świetna robota!!!

orkerone
13 years ago

Hello !

I found your theme a few days ago, and I liked it so much I shared it with the Ubuntu Art Team. We're actually trying many things with it, if you want to help us, join us on the Ubuntu Art List!

Bravo for your great work.

zniavre
13 years ago

hello
at the line 376 of gtkrc the Combo/combo-pressed.png seems to be missing inside the Combo folder
<<</home/zniavre/.themes/Dark-Ice/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:373: Incapable de localiser le fichier image dans le chemin des pixmaps : « Combo/combo-pressed.png »
/home/zniavre/.themes/Dark-Ice/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:376: Background image options specified without filename>>>

hope it could be helpfull to finish your theme

good evening

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13 years ago

0.3
added metacity frames.
changed the font colour to make it more visible.
changed the background colour to less bright.
new scrollbars and progressbars
0.3.1
fixed a bug with a combo button.

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