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Description:

### Aurora 1.4 gtk engine is required ###
This is another gtk theme optimized for laptop with 1280x800 screen resolution, because i have utilize for the background of windows a image with this resolution.
Hire theme include a pidgin theme, two wallpaper and a emerald theme.
If you have some other ideas please write to me. :)

menox
11 years ago

What font are you using?

simone84
11 years ago

Mac fonts!
For install:
wget http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com/files/macfonts.tar.gz
tar zxvf macfonts.tar.gz
sudo mv macfonts /usr/share/fonts/
sudo fc-cache -f -v

menox
11 years ago

Wow, thanks! They look great!

wers
11 years ago

You're a design genius! However, we should also focus more on usability.

It's very heavy. It requires emerald so I suggest a metacity theme because emerald eats up additional RAM. I also suggest a version without the backgrounds. I find the Pidgin background very heavy too. I removed it because it's hardly usable. I hope, you can find ways to make it lighter. Something as light as shiki-colors would be nice. hehe

I found a bug, btw. Selected tabs aren't lit up so one wouldn't know if a tab is currently selected.

Also, I believe that the OpenSuSE 11 Gilouche is a better suited icon theme.

Great work! This is one of my favorites! :)

wers
11 years ago

I also noticed that the gray color is too light so there is little contrast between it and the white text making GNOME Do hard to read.

Radio buttons are also cut. Please take a look at theme.

Still, very good job!

znejk
11 years ago

Really nice sleak theme! I have one major problem though... i dunno if its the engine or the theme but my desktop becomes very laggy when using it, hardly usable. Though i have an old centrino 1.8 ghz so thats mby the problem..?

simone84
11 years ago

I am not sure but I think that problem it is the theme and not the engine, because it use a image for draw the background of the windows. This is large enough then for a centrino 1.8 may be too hard..
..sorry for my english..

tang0delta
11 years ago

Hi.

Can anyone give me some step by step instructions on installing the rhythmbox desktop art plugin shown in the screenshots. I have already downloaded the tar archive from the link suggested by derma but now I have no clue what to do :P any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Declan

tang0delta
11 years ago

never mind i figured it out!

Thanks anyway :)

simone84
11 years ago

not problem! :)
You found the istructions for install Desktop Art plugin for Rhythmbox in http://www.nedrebo.org/code/rhythmbox/desktop_art

chareos
11 years ago

I was staring to the preview pic, and I noticed the shadow have something wrong: it seems tick on the top and slim on the bottom, wth a very neat step to the middle

chareos
11 years ago

OH MY GOD
This looks so good, I'm thinking of go home earlier from work to try it !

simone84
11 years ago

muhahahahaha! Thanks!!! :D

I must fix something. For example the circle around the arrow in the combo-box (thanks derma) and the color of the panel button when you open a new application..

derma
11 years ago

In the Widget Factory preview the circle around the arrow in the combo-box is cut on the right side... nevertheless I like the colors and the shapes.

tang0delta
11 years ago

What is the icon theme and "now playing" widget in the right hand corner?

derma
11 years ago

The icon theme should be GNOME-colors http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GNOME-colors?content=82562... the "widget" is instead an applet/plugin, its name is Rhythmbox Desktop Art ... you can find that here... http://ppa.launchpad.net/m-buck/ubuntu/pool/main/r/rhythmbox-desktop-art/.

tang0delta
11 years ago

cheers derma

thanks again to simone84 for this fantastic theme

Izo
11 years ago

Very original. I approve.

/izo\

gilgy
11 years ago

This is a very clean theme, and I'm digging the background you have here. This theme would be sitting in my pc as default for a long time. Good job!

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