Slickness Black

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Description:

This is a very very black modification of
my slickness theme.
I made it cause someone here at gnome-look
asked if I could.

New feature since version 0.3:
You can now choose colors using gnome
theme manager.
It is my very first try at something like this so it might not work exactly as planned.

Feedback of any kind is always welcome :D

To fix browser problems go here:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Darkfix+%28+easy+fix+for+browsers+%29?content=74504

that fix will fix all your browser problems :)

A HUGE thanks to code933k for making it!!

!!!IMPORTANT!!!

To install:
1.Download the file to your desktop
2.Right click the file and select extract here
3.open a terminal and run these commands:
first:
sudo cp -r $HOME/Desktop/SlicknesS-black /usr/share/themes
second:
sudo chmod 777 /usr/share/themes/SlicknesS-black/Slickness-black.jpg

4.Open the theme manager, you can now
see the SlicknesS-black theme as a theme,
when you click on it , it suggests
taners amazing wallpaper he made for this theme!!
click apply to apply the wallpaper!

the icon theme it suggests is this one:

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/black-white+2+Style?content=72619

any problems with the install let me know!!!!

One REALLY HUGE thank you to artist Taner
for his fantastic wallpaper!

Gerva has made a fix that fixes openoffice problems! :
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Openoffice+fix+for+slickness+black+theme?content=77415

Thanks Gerva!
Last changelog:

13 years ago

0.1 Fixed some bugs, Improved look of overall look, (should be more usable now)
changed look of toolbar and other things.

0.1.1 Fixed a bug where when you renamed a file
in nautilus you couldn't see the cursur.

0.2 Changed the colorscheme a little, a bit brighter now (but it's easier to spot some widgets that has focus etc.)
Some other minor changes.

0.3 You don't like my colorscheme?
choose your own colors in gnome theme manager. (just click restore to defaults
if something goes wrong).

0.3.2 Changed default colorscheme again and
improved the active/selected/normal colorshading
Fixed a bug that made some trayicons to
be drawn 1 pixel too low (Many thanks to
Moomex for that!!!!!!) ,made some minor tweaking to some elements (ie tabs are smaller now).

0.4 Made new scrollbar-sliders (older ones
where hard to spot), made completely new
entry style, fixed some uglyness in genereal. new listheaders. (in the first
screenshot I use macmenu hack version,
but this looks exactly like it except
for the menubar ofc)

0.5 Changed the scrollbarsliders a little,
removed the shadow from inactive fonts (as requested)
,included a fix for firefox (not mine).

0.5.1 Managed to remove the disabled font
shadow on treeview text too, (if you find
it someplace else let me know)

0.5.5 Fixed a bug where gimp showed ugly widgets
and removed the spacing between metacity
buttons.

0.6 Fixed a bug where various apps inherited
the toolbar style.

0.6.2 Fixed more bugs... Gimp should look
fine now.

0.8 Now comes as a full theme package,
Including Taners amazing wallpapaer!!
plus I fixed some bugs and improved some stuff.

0.9 You can now have white input boxes
(as shown on screenshot 2) cause I changed
some color inheritance (combobox now has
different inhertitance and cursor in
box inherits text color).

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Herzchell

12 years ago

I created an account on this website, for the sole purpose of telling you how much I enjoy your theme, having said that, I can now rest peacefully...

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TheRob

12 years ago

Hehe!

Thanks man!
I highly appreciate it :D

//Robert

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DownIndustries

12 years ago

Good work but I wish you had included the scroll bars you have in the non-black slickness version. Do you think you could add them to this version at some point?

Respect

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TheRob

12 years ago

Thanks!

Sure, at some point I might do that :)

//Robert

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HedgeSlammer

12 years ago

Another very nice theme. This theme has one thing, that I missed in "Overglossed" and "Slickness". When you click the search field in FF the font is white. This makes the previous searched topics more visible, than in the two other themes. See example. The first one is "Slickness Black" the second one is "Slickness".
http:www.d-n-a.dk/images/colors.jpg

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TheRob

12 years ago

Thanks!

Yeah that is a bug in firefox if you don't use
the included css style file that I included in
slickness....

In the latest firefox 3 it works without any fixes at
all.

//Robert

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karmelek

13 years ago

I have only Human icon in my Open Office - it is possible to use anotfer (better) set of icons with this theme? I have also made a hybrid with Slickness and Overglossed - it looks really nice - both themes are good but i prefer panels&scrollbars from Overglosed and menubar and the other things from Slickness black.

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TheRob

13 years ago

I have absolutely no idea, sorry, but you could
try this nice fix Gerva did:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Openoffice+fix+for+slickness+black+theme?content=77415

What it does is that it starts openoffice with
the ordinary slickness theme so openoffice
does not suffer from the annoyances that
it does when using a dark theme!

Glad you like my work and I hope you enjoyed hacking it! ;D

hope this helps!

//Robert

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zinden

13 years ago

Works perfect with foresight 2 that runs Gnome 2.22

Thanks alot

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TheRob

13 years ago

Great! Thanks!

I actually read a review on foresight 2 like 5 seconds
before replying now... I must say I'm very interested in
foresight.... and conary... is it any good???

Thanks!

//Robert

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zinden

13 years ago

The packagemanager GUI isnt so good yet, but conary is very powerful.
http://www.fsckin.com/2008/03/19/interview-with-ken-vandine-of-foresight-linux/
some questions + answers from ken about conary and foresight :)

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TheRob

13 years ago

Thanks! now I'm even more interested in
conary :D

//Robert

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xXxEnforcer

13 years ago


Thank u..gone have a lot of fun with this 1... Thankz...

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xXxEnforcer

13 years ago

Hi there now thats great theme.....
Just 1 Q what is that font i cant find it anywere...

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TheRob

13 years ago

Thanks!

font is zekton:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Zekton?content=50553

//Robert

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IllBashuU

13 years ago

Some of the web pages, are screwed up, on white pages it shows the font as gray. (it also does this in evolution mail) :/

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TheRob

13 years ago


To fix browser problems go here:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Darkfix+%28+easy+fix+for+browsers+%29?content=74504

that is the fix for browser problems when
using black/dark based themes :)

dunno about evolution (don't even know what it is)
Thanks for reporting tho, I will look in to it!

//Robert

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IllBashuU

13 years ago

Some of the web pages, are screwed up, on white pages it shows the font as gray some times (it does this in evolution mail :/

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halcapote

13 years ago

Hi Robert,

There are problems with font colors in Firefox with black-Slickness.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/7287/firefoxml9.png

Bye !

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TheRob

13 years ago

I see from the screenshot that you are using
a firefox theme, doesn't that change the
font colors?

Maybe not... are you sure you run darkfix
correctly????

since there shouldn't after that be any
problems in firefox :)

thanks for reporting tho!

//Robert

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halcapote

13 years ago

Hi,

I would like to know if you think make a new version of "Slickness black" more evolved as for "Slickness" which is more evolved. "Slickness black" is my favorite theme and it is a pity that "Slickness black" does not profit from the same changes (such as lift).

Bye !

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TheRob

13 years ago

Yeah I know... It's just that I don't have
enough time for this theming business....
I will update when I have the time :)

SlicknesS is the theme I use myself so it
feels natural for me to work on that one
in the first place :)

Thanks!

//Robert

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xOrangeFirex

13 years ago

I tried to put in the cmd into terminal and for some reason it said this:
jamie@DukeDevil:~$ sudo cp -r $HOME/Desktop/SlicknesS-black /usr/share/themes & sudo chmod 777 /usr/share/themes/SlicknesS-black/Slickness-black.jpg
[1] 6005
[sudo] password for jamie:
[sudo] password for jamie:

[1]+ Stopped sudo cp -r $HOME/Desktop/SlicknesS-black /usr/share/themes

I dont know what it means. I really love this theme and I really want it. Any help would be really appreciated.

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TheRob

13 years ago

Thank you for your interest in my theme!! :D

Yeah, those install instructions are a bit wrong....
I thought I had them corrected butobviously
not... the only thing you have to do is split
the command to two commands, so they are

sudo cp -r $HOME/Desktop/SlicknesS-black /usr/share/themes

and then

sudo chmod 777 /usr/share/themes/SlicknesS-black/Slickness-black.jpg

hope this helps!

//Robert

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xOrangeFirex

13 years ago

When I do the commands you say to do nothing seems to happen. After the first command it asks me for my password and then nothing happens. Then I put the seconds command absolutely nothing happens . I then check emerald and nothing has changed. I really love your theme and I really want it. Please help me out.

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13 years ago

0.1 Fixed some bugs, Improved look of overall look, (should be more usable now)
changed look of toolbar and other things.

0.1.1 Fixed a bug where when you renamed a file
in nautilus you couldn't see the cursur.

0.2 Changed the colorscheme a little, a bit brighter now (but it's easier to spot some widgets that has focus etc.)
Some other minor changes.

0.3 You don't like my colorscheme?
choose your own colors in gnome theme manager. (just click restore to defaults
if something goes wrong).

0.3.2 Changed default colorscheme again and
improved the active/selected/normal colorshading
Fixed a bug that made some trayicons to
be drawn 1 pixel too low (Many thanks to
Moomex for that!!!!!!) ,made some minor tweaking to some elements (ie tabs are smaller now).

0.4 Made new scrollbar-sliders (older ones
where hard to spot), made completely new
entry style, fixed some uglyness in genereal. new listheaders. (in the first
screenshot I use macmenu hack version,
but this looks exactly like it except
for the menubar ofc)

0.5 Changed the scrollbarsliders a little,
removed the shadow from inactive fonts (as requested)
,included a fix for firefox (not mine).

0.5.1 Managed to remove the disabled font
shadow on treeview text too, (if you find
it someplace else let me know)

0.5.5 Fixed a bug where gimp showed ugly widgets
and removed the spacing between metacity
buttons.

0.6 Fixed a bug where various apps inherited
the toolbar style.

0.6.2 Fixed more bugs... Gimp should look
fine now.

0.8 Now comes as a full theme package,
Including Taners amazing wallpapaer!!
plus I fixed some bugs and improved some stuff.

0.9 You can now have white input boxes
(as shown on screenshot 2) cause I changed
some color inheritance (combobox now has
different inhertitance and cursor in
box inherits text color).

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