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Shiki-Colors mixes the elegance of a dark theme with the usability of a light theme, resulting in a hybrid theme. Shiki is designed to be fast and stable.
There is a Clearlooks version for out-of-the-box compatibility with most distros and a Murrine version for eyecandy and speed.
There are 7 color variations (Orange, Blue, Green, Purple, Red, Chocolate, Pink). A matching set of Icons, Wallpapers and GDM themes can also be downloaded separately from gnome-look or at the gnome-colors project page.
You can edit the theme's source (the gtkrc files) for further customization, which is all too easy due to the included instructions.
Must read or clowns will eat you:
* The Murrine version will only work with Murrine 0.90.3 or newer. Yes, you will need to upgrade unless you're using Ubuntu Jaunty.
* The borders are very thin, and titlebars/menubars are unified because of "LOL, ELEGANCE". If you have any difficulty resizing windows, try the included alternate metacity with thicker borders.
* In Ubuntu, for themes (installed through appearance preferences) to be able to theme applications in admin mode, you must type in a terminal:
sudo ln -s ~/.themes /root && sudo ln -s ~/.icons /root
Fedora users can get an installable package of Murrine 0.90.3 (x86) here until is not available in release section:
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1529612/gtk-murrine-engine-0.90.3-1.fc12.i586.rpm
* In Ubuntu, you can use the official PPA repository for easy installation and upgrades. For Ubuntu Karmic Koala, you can simply run apt-get install shiki-colors to install from Ubuntu's universe repositories. The packages are also available in Debian Sid.
* To fix minor Firefox 3 bugs in Shiki-Colors, install the Stylish add-on and go here (or install the included userChrome.css file following the instructions in README):
http://userstyles.org/styles/10822
* Visit the GNOME-Colors project page for bug reports, feature requests, SVN and more downloads:
http://code.google.com/p/gnome-colors/
* Consider donating a small amount to the GNOME-Colors project if you wish to support it, or to show your appreciation. You can do so by clicking on the "donate" button next to the download section.
11 years ago
4.6 (2009-09-25)
* Add support for Chromium's GTK theming.
4.5 (2009-08-03)
* Update Green, Pink, Orange and Red palettes for better contrast.
* Fix a minor Firefox urlbar color issue in green/orange variations.
4.4 (2009-07-14)
* Add new Pink (Illustrious) color variation.
* Add support for gdm-user-switch applet in Karmic.
* Fix panel matching in Dust-Murrine variant.
* Remove spaces in metacity names for easier RPM packaging. You might have to
remove the old metacity folders or run make uninstall from a previous version.
11 years ago
4.6 (2009-09-25)
* Add support for Chromium's GTK theming.
4.5 (2009-08-03)
* Update Green, Pink, Orange and Red palettes for better contrast.
* Fix a minor Firefox urlbar color issue in green/orange variations.
4.4 (2009-07-14)
* Add new Pink (Illustrious) color variation.
* Add support for gdm-user-switch applet in Karmic.
* Fix panel matching in Dust-Murrine variant.
* Remove spaces in metacity names for easier RPM packaging. You might have to
remove the old metacity folders or run make uninstall from a previous version.
okubax
11 years ago
Good work
FYI: The Launchpad PPA does not yet have the arc dust GDM, I had to mually install that.
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perfectska04
11 years ago
Ah, for anyone else experiencing any bugs.. let me know, as the dust stuff is brand new so I might have overlooked something.
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perfectska04
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Faulks
11 years ago
I'm currently using your theme with the Xfce-Desktop. When downloading the themes via PPA I'm not able to download only the Shiki-Color-GTK-Themes, because it depends on Metacity (which Xfce is not using).
Although you have provided an Xfce port, it doesn't seem to include the Murrine themes, but only an xfwm skin.
So basically, I would like to hat the Metacity dependency removed, so that I can install things like that:
"shiki-colors-xfwm-theme" to make xfwm look nice
"shiki-colors" for the GTK-murrine-themes
The rest (icon-sets and so on) is working properly.
I hope you can help me with that.
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perfectska04
11 years ago
I think the best way would be to install with the themes regardless of metacity being installed, but I'm not really experienced with packaging, so I think the gnome-colors packagers would find a better solution.
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6205
11 years ago
Could you please make also orange Ubuntu version with light/white menus? Maybe Human Clearlooks has the right menu color.. Because all those black menus are ugly and icons are not very good visible.
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perfectska04
11 years ago
You can only have either light menubar and light menus, or dark menubar and dark menus. If you want the former, clearlooks-colors or murrine-colors is already there for that.
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Tahakki
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perfectska04
11 years ago
Homepage:
http://www.nedrebo.org/code/rhythmbox/desktop_art
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UbuntuLee
11 years ago
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kemper
11 years ago
Screenshot: http://www.fruple.com/kemper/Screenshot-2.png
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perfectska04
11 years ago
What is happening, is that synaptic runs as administrator - and if you simply install themes per user, the administrator won't be able to use them.
There are some ways around it:
-Do as it says above in the theme description: In Ubuntu, for themes (installed through appearance preferences) to be able to theme applications in admin mode, you must type in a terminal:
sudo ln -s ~/.themes /root && sudo ln -s ~/.icons /root
-Install them with appearance preferences running as administrator.
-Or simply extract them as administrator to /usr/share/icons (recommended).
Either of these three methods will work.
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damijit
11 years ago
I use shiki-colors with globalmenu and it looks very good, 90% as good as without globalmenu. But if you made a metacity specifically for globalmenu-users, I would be very interested!
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perfectska04
11 years ago
I mentioned Clearlooks because I personally like it as it is simple, square and colorful. However, other metacities such as the ever popular "Blended" are already created and work well with Shiki once there's no menubar to worry about.
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