Water Vapor

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Water Vapor GTK 2.0 Theme
by monchichi (bladrasameATgmailDOTcom)

Next Major Release (0.75) Will Have:
- New Radio Buttons
- Peformance Increase
- Any requested changes/additions?

I plan on making a colorpack with about 10 color variations in the future as well.

Thanks everyone for the feedback and encouragement!


Enjoy!
Last changelog:

14 years ago

v. 0.70:
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- New Tab Graphics
- Tabs all same size now
- Added a Menu Background Gradient
- Gave tooltips a little more gloss
- New checkboxes

v. 0.60:
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- New Scrollbars (not final, just trying some ideas)
- New Tooltips (mimics menu somewhat)
- Small Performance Fixes
- Water Vapor Background now available
- New List Header

v. 0.51
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- Fixed Gray Buttons that Weren't Showing
- Sharpened Bottom of Highlighted Buttons
- New Progressbar
- New Toolbar Background


v. 0.50
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- Option Menu Improvements
- Scrollbar Improvements
- Removed Iconrc / Stock Buttons
- New Radio Buttons
- Gray-Button Borders Fixed
- Separated Metacity Theme

v. 0.42
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- Some Small Fixes with Tabs & Buttons
- Small Progress Bar fix

v. 0.40:
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- New Progress Bar
- Less Saturated Colors
- Flatter Buttons
- New Stock Icons
- New Text Field
- New Notebook Tabs
- New Spin Boxes
- Many Additional Changes

v. 0.30:
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- New Scrollbars
- New OptionMenu
- Reworked Menu Background

v. 0.20:
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- Updated fg color issues (thanks toby)
- Changed default buttons to gray
- Steepened Menu background gradient
- Added Prelight for Option Menus
- Some other crap, etc etc.

v. 0.10:
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Initial Release.

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monchichi

14 years ago

I fixed the issue that caused that error, it will be released with the next update. However, I'm not 100% sure it will fix your crashes... were you getting those errors when gnome-panel started up or when it was actually crashing?

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nosebleed

14 years ago

It appears to have fixed it! Thanks

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nosebleed

14 years ago

That appeared right before it crashed. I'll try the new version. Thanks

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freakcode

14 years ago

Now this is a GOOD aqua-like theme. Not another Mac-weird, this one is very fresh.

Could you make XFCE window borders?

Keep it up.

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marvin

14 years ago

What font are you using for the title bar in the second screenshot?

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monchichi

14 years ago

It's called Zekton Bold, and I don't recall where I acquired it.

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DDM

14 years ago

Thanks for making it a little less OS-X like. It looks much more unique.

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plutoprime

14 years ago

This Theme is incredible. I have been looking for a theme that would top the clearlooks-graphite and this IS IT (sorry lockheed ;) ).

Attention to detail, soft transitions and borders, gnome-panel, drop down boxes, and overall feel is breathtaking.

Incredible work and keep developing this! Although the current color theme is almost perfect in every way and easy on the eyes I can't imagine what other color variations you coculd come up with. It would be hard to improve upon perfection...

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plutoprime

14 years ago

I would like to comment a few more things:

http://elysium.dnsalias.net/web/nautilus.png

- The navigation icons in nautilus appear as low quality images and a little washed out

- The unclickable buttons (circled in the picture above) don't have the same soft and smooth look that seems to be part of the themes personality (gray dots look ugly), but that's just my personal impression.

- The path buttons in nautilus (circled below the navigation button in the image above) Does NOT show a clear indication of which button is selected. If you look carefuly you will see that the selected button is darker gray and not glossy but has bold font, the unselected button has a glossy skin but the font is not bold. The visual cues seem to be contradicting each other regarding which button is really selected

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monchichi

14 years ago

Thank you for the feedback & criticism-- the more people criticize, the better I can make the theme...

I just fixed one of those three issues, with the active path button in nautilus. I just darkened the border around the button, I think that gives a better indication that it is the "active" button.

Regarding the other two issues, I will fix them in time. I'm not yet sure how to fix the dead buttons with the dots, but I'll look into it. I had kind of intended the fuzziness on the stock (toolbar) buttons, as the theme is supposed to have an airy, easy on the eyes, (while also hi-tech and practical) feel to it. I'm sure I can improve the icons, however-- I suppose blurriness isn't easy on the eyes at all. :-/ I could easily just sharpen them, but I think I'd prefer to just redesign all the icons... so that will have to wait until version 0.5.

Thanks again.

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chechi

14 years ago

by the way, what window manager theme are you using

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monchichi

14 years ago

it's called Clearbox-In

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chechi

14 years ago

can this be ported to gtk 1.x in any way (I see you have the gimp opened in one of those screenshots -doesn't that use gtk1?).
Its's one of the best themes I have seen.

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monchichi

14 years ago

Gimp has been using GTK2 for some time now. Maybe when I'm done with this theme I will port it to GTK1, but don't hold your breath.

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oddabel

14 years ago

very nice...

what is the font you're using for Title bar and what not.

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monchichi

14 years ago

Thanks,

Application Font: Trebuchet
Window Title Font: Zekton Bold
Desktop Font: Zekton

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robsta

14 years ago

Please post a screenshot in png format, otherwise it doesn't resemble the quality of the theme.

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monchichi

14 years ago

done.

i was just trying to save gnome-look some bandwidth... ah well.

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gebil21

14 years ago

What is the metacity theme you are using? Thanks

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monchichi

14 years ago

Metacity: MoreIndustrial
Icons: Crystal Clear

They should both be on this site somewhere...

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gebil21

14 years ago

Thanks, I've found it at art.gnome.org and changed it a bit so that the maximize and minimize buttons correspond to their function and also changed it so that the bottoms are corners and not rounded.

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toby

14 years ago

http://tobias.munin.dk/gnome/gtkrc

Replace ~/.themes/Water Vapor/gtk-2.0/gtkrc with the file above - to fix white/black font-color on tabs.

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monchichi

14 years ago

NOTE: DO NOT APPLY this patch as of version 0.2! It will b0rk the theme in a major way.

I appreciate the patch toby, but next time would you mind just using diff and sending the patch to me? it's just more tidy that way. thanks.

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toby

14 years ago

Sorry about that, you're right..
It seems you fixed it anyway, so I'm just going to pull my copy down.

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peekpt

14 years ago

NICE THEME

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14 years ago

v. 0.70:
-----------------
- New Tab Graphics
- Tabs all same size now
- Added a Menu Background Gradient
- Gave tooltips a little more gloss
- New checkboxes

v. 0.60:
-----------------
- New Scrollbars (not final, just trying some ideas)
- New Tooltips (mimics menu somewhat)
- Small Performance Fixes
- Water Vapor Background now available
- New List Header

v. 0.51
-----------------
- Fixed Gray Buttons that Weren't Showing
- Sharpened Bottom of Highlighted Buttons
- New Progressbar
- New Toolbar Background


v. 0.50
-----------------
- Option Menu Improvements
- Scrollbar Improvements
- Removed Iconrc / Stock Buttons
- New Radio Buttons
- Gray-Button Borders Fixed
- Separated Metacity Theme

v. 0.42
-----------------
- Some Small Fixes with Tabs & Buttons
- Small Progress Bar fix

v. 0.40:
-----------------
- New Progress Bar
- Less Saturated Colors
- Flatter Buttons
- New Stock Icons
- New Text Field
- New Notebook Tabs
- New Spin Boxes
- Many Additional Changes

v. 0.30:
-----------------
- New Scrollbars
- New OptionMenu
- Reworked Menu Background

v. 0.20:
-----------------
- Updated fg color issues (thanks toby)
- Changed default buttons to gray
- Steepened Menu background gradient
- Added Prelight for Option Menus
- Some other crap, etc etc.

v. 0.10:
-----------------
Initial Release.

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