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Ardoise

Cursors dark shadow simple transparent

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://gitlab.com/obnosim/ardoise

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Description:

Ardoise is a simple, dark and flat theme. All cursors have the same shape, only the symbol changes.

Available resolutions are 24, 32, 48 and 72 px.

Update: fixed the 100-no-shadow archive which was previously empty.

Last changelog:

5 years ago

20/09/15
Reworked shadows for cleaner edges

17/02/15
moved to GitHub
all previous variants are now also available with shadows
the dark border at the bottom of the cursor was removed

18/01/15
added a more translucent variant, similar to previous versions. Thanks to janet.

31/10/14
fixed a visual regression in Wait cursor (the axis of rotation was slightly off-center and the symbol was poorly positioned).

27/10/14
improved uniformity (some symbols had a different opacity)
added Ardoise_opaque theme
added a script to regenerate files from source

06/09/14
slight alignment fix on up_arrow and col_resize

01/08/14
added link to source files and reduced file size

30/07/14
additional fixes, thanks again to dabbill

27/07/14
fixed some legacy symlinks that were mixed up, thanks to dabbill.

25/07/14
added ClosedHand cursor and markitos66 added legacy symlinks. The theme should now work properly on Gnome and other DEs.

18/07/14
all cursors have been completely redrawn, keeping the original appearance but with a slight alteration to make them look better on bright backgrounds. The Wait cursor is now clockwise.

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bloodraven
7 months ago

10 10 the best
Simple and sleek, the best cursor I've seen. The fact that the bonus icons are inside the cursor and don't change its silhouette/point location is so innovative and nice! 10/10

bloodraven
7 months ago

Could you perhaps make a grey version? It does sometimes get lost in black backgrounds, being purely black itself, the transparency doesn't help. That's my only complaint.

obnosim
7 months ago

Alright, I reworked to source code to add the ability to easily generate themes with custom colors.
If you want to do that, you will need git, Inkscape >= 1.0 (it won't work with earlier versions) and xcursorgen.

Clone the code and go to the 'assets' folder:
$ git clone https://gitlab.com/obnosim/ardoise.git ardoise
$ cd ardoise/assets

Edit the file 'custom.replace' to give it the color values you want. To change the color of the cursor body, edit the values 'bodyGradientStart' and 'bodyGradientEnd'.

Then, generate the theme (still from the 'assets' folder):
$ ./regenerate custom

This will use the values in 'custom.replace' to produce a new file in the parent folder: 'Ardoise (custom).tar.gz'. You can then extract this archive either in '~/.local/share/icons' or in '/usr/share/icons', then select it from System Settings > Cursors.

obnosim
7 months ago

Thanks for the kind words!
I can look into making it easy to customize so you can select the color you want.

MountainMan
8 months ago

10 One of my favorites. Been using this one for a long time!

obnosim
8 months ago

Cheers!

Hochopepa
4 years ago

This is the best cursor I have ever used. Very elegant, yet simple.

obnosim
4 years ago

Thanks!

StaceyJulAlexandria
4 years ago

Love this cursor with a passion. It goes wonderfully with my custom Linux Mint Cinnamon theme. Well done. :)

obnosim
4 years ago

Glad you like it! :)

janet
6 years ago

I love this theme but the x-cursor does not look very Ardoise-like, maybe you could replace it?

And can you please add a pirate cursor? Something like this maybe (that's the Breeze pirate on Ardoise cursor): http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/pirate72ews8yncfkx.png

obnosim
6 years ago

I didn't customize those two because I honestly don't know what they are there for and I have never encountered them (I kept the default x_cursor one but the pirate one is missing, I'll fix that).
I could create Ardoise versions if it's a problem (see my answer to your previous comment).

janet
6 years ago

The pirate is for xkill!

obnosim
6 years ago

Okay, the two new icons are ready. I'm waiting for you to tell me what opacity you'd like and I'll publish the update.

janet
6 years ago

I just updated to Ardoise (translucent) from former Ardoise and I am somewhat disappointed to see that the so called translucent Ardoise theme is less translucent than the former Ardoise theme and nearly black instead of the elegant anthracite. Can you please please please add a third version with the old translucency and color?

obnosim
6 years ago

I have been using the translucent variant continuously since the beginning and I have not noticed that change.

But I can make a more translucent one, no problem. Take a look at translucent.svg in the sources and tell me what % you would like. It's applied to the groups that contain the edge and the background, and it's currently set to 87.5%.

janet
6 years ago

It's difficult to tell which %. Maybe it wasn't a change in the group-% but inside the group? I guess you don't have and older svg? You have done something to the translucency for some of the pointers in the file, in the old version some pointers were dark (like the translucent theme now) and some, especially the left_ptr, were lighter. You adjusted something for consistency... I'd have preferred if you would have made the darker ones lighter and not the lighter ones darker... Maybe you remember what you did? It really would be great. Thanks for your efforts.

Here are the two left_ptr files, I prefer the translucency of the "org" one. If you don't trust your eyes use cmp ;) - they really differ. http://kerridis.de/temp/ardoise-old-new.tar.gz

janet
6 years ago

Call me petty, but the text under the cursor is better recognizable with the old version:

http://kerridis.de/temp/ardoise-old-new.png

obnosim
6 years ago

There you go! I added a new theme similar to the older one (Translucent 2).

I think you were right about the change coming from the way the elements were layered. The 87.5% multiplier was incorrectly applied twice on some cursors and at some point I fixed it.

janet
6 years ago

Thanks a lot!! :)

tcl
6 years ago

First, thanks for this great xcursor theme and this update.

So, you're keeping on updating this theme? Glad to see that. And why don't you put your little thing on something like gist or github or something similar? It will be easy to to update and provide reliable download links and homepage. (Nah, dropbox archive with no version string is terrible.)

I can help you set up such a thing if you so desire. I took a look on the src tarball and that bash script is terrible as well. I can write a proper makefile if ever you had some place to get contributions... You do not need to use inkscape for conversion. You can start using convert (inkscape depends on it and does probably send your cmdline to it) and it's really a powerfull cmdline utility. There maybe some light weight utility out there to convert image rather than ImageMagick but it's another story.

Let me know if you need help to set up a proper project repository.

ragm83
6 years ago

nice your work...

markitos66
6 years ago

Right now I downloaded your mouse theme, and I have seen that all legacy symlinks are missing. Also the cursor.theme file is needed. The index.theme apparently is not totally right. You have to fix the issue, because it not working well.
If you want help, with a pleasure I can help you. Only send me a private message, and a link to the icons source, either png or svg format.

Thanks,
MarkoF

dabbill
6 years ago

It seems that some symbolic links are not included. I am running Fedora 20 Gnome3. There are some points that revert back to Adwaita theme.

obnosim
6 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. It should be fixed now.

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5 years ago

20/09/15
Reworked shadows for cleaner edges

17/02/15
moved to GitHub
all previous variants are now also available with shadows
the dark border at the bottom of the cursor was removed

18/01/15
added a more translucent variant, similar to previous versions. Thanks to janet.

31/10/14
fixed a visual regression in Wait cursor (the axis of rotation was slightly off-center and the symbol was poorly positioned).

27/10/14
improved uniformity (some symbols had a different opacity)
added Ardoise_opaque theme
added a script to regenerate files from source

06/09/14
slight alignment fix on up_arrow and col_resize

01/08/14
added link to source files and reduced file size

30/07/14
additional fixes, thanks again to dabbill

27/07/14
fixed some legacy symlinks that were mixed up, thanks to dabbill.

25/07/14
added ClosedHand cursor and markitos66 added legacy symlinks. The theme should now work properly on Gnome and other DEs.

18/07/14
all cursors have been completely redrawn, keeping the original appearance but with a slight alteration to make them look better on bright backgrounds. The Wait cursor is now clockwise.

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bloodraven Jun 14 2020 10 the best

10 the best Simple and sleek, the best cursor I've seen. The fact that the bonus icons are inside the cursor and don't change its silhouette/point location is so innovative and nice! 10/10

MountainMan May 03 2020 10 the best

One of my favorites. Been using this one for a long time!

Hochopepa Aug 26 2016 9 excellent

Aliceinwonderland116 Dec 27 2015 9 excellent

nikolom Dec 02 2015 3 bad

darzki Oct 31 2015 9 excellent

sfeist Oct 25 2015 3 bad

rvc-2011 Sep 25 2015 9 excellent

iraklis1989 Mar 24 2015 9 excellent

gizmo1 Jan 20 2015 3 bad

Zakka Dec 20 2014 9 excellent

tcl Nov 26 2014 9 excellent

vinceliuice Nov 03 2014 9 excellent

farida8 Nov 01 2014 9 excellent

amorpher Oct 30 2014 9 excellent

IamJustUs Aug 08 2014 9 excellent

Broli Aug 02 2014 9 excellent

alberterintes Aug 02 2014 3 bad

janet Jul 30 2014 9 excellent

balljatekos Jul 28 2014 3 bad

nowrouznowrouz Jul 27 2014 9 excellent

ragm83 Jul 25 2014 9 excellent

Leonidas3G Jul 24 2014 3 bad

eticre Jul 21 2014 9 excellent

mcsinyx Jul 21 2014 9 excellent

gazgeza Jul 18 2014 3 bad

ashael May 20 2014 9 excellent

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fierta May 18 2014 9 excellent

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