detrate
April 12th, 2009, 11:18 AM
Dark room was a good start... but it didn't quite fit me. Too much white, the window borders weren't working for me... tabs don't signify that they are selected all that well... but I liked the idea of a dark brown theme.
Getting inspiration from Dark Room, I've been working on this theme I've dubbed EarthyTonez. It's been evolving, becoming more refined and even has me customizing applications that lack gnome's color scheming profile (like Mozilla's thunderbird lightning calendar extension (by opening the jar and editing the css)).
http://pics.nexuizninjaz.com/images/mhxph6qlbo9w5n0fzx3_thumb.png (http://pics.nexuizninjaz.com/viewer.php?file=mhxph6qlbo9w5n0fzx3.png)
It uses slightly modified gnome-wise icons and I've recently begun integrating the 'Dust' window border (where it used to use Human).
I just thought I'd share this with you all and get some feedback before I package something up.
I've been working with dark themes for a while now... starting with blacks, then to dark greys then blues... but they were all too dry and cold. The brown (which some people like to say reminds them of poop), really keeps you warm by comparison. Also, white and black show up on it fairly well, so you don't get ~those annoying non-conforming applications~ as often. Not pictured, I themed my KDE applications to match as well.
The web is a slightly different story because as I said, I've been theming my applications where I can... and that entails changing firefox's background color. Some web developers neglect to explicitly set the background color, so that leaves pages that were intended to have a white background looking all sorts of bad.
I solved (95% of) this by creating the following global stylish (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108) theme.
@-moz-document url-prefix(http://), url-prefix(https://) { body { background-color:#fff; color:#000; } }
DOWNLOAD HERE: http://z.nexuizninjaz.com/linux/themes/earthytonez_0.8.tar
Anyway, enjoy, let me know your thoughts :).
Getting inspiration from Dark Room, I've been working on this theme I've dubbed EarthyTonez. It's been evolving, becoming more refined and even has me customizing applications that lack gnome's color scheming profile (like Mozilla's thunderbird lightning calendar extension (by opening the jar and editing the css)).
http://pics.nexuizninjaz.com/images/mhxph6qlbo9w5n0fzx3_thumb.png (http://pics.nexuizninjaz.com/viewer.php?file=mhxph6qlbo9w5n0fzx3.png)
It uses slightly modified gnome-wise icons and I've recently begun integrating the 'Dust' window border (where it used to use Human).
I just thought I'd share this with you all and get some feedback before I package something up.
I've been working with dark themes for a while now... starting with blacks, then to dark greys then blues... but they were all too dry and cold. The brown (which some people like to say reminds them of poop), really keeps you warm by comparison. Also, white and black show up on it fairly well, so you don't get ~those annoying non-conforming applications~ as often. Not pictured, I themed my KDE applications to match as well.
The web is a slightly different story because as I said, I've been theming my applications where I can... and that entails changing firefox's background color. Some web developers neglect to explicitly set the background color, so that leaves pages that were intended to have a white background looking all sorts of bad.
I solved (95% of) this by creating the following global stylish (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108) theme.
@-moz-document url-prefix(http://), url-prefix(https://) { body { background-color:#fff; color:#000; } }
DOWNLOAD HERE: http://z.nexuizninjaz.com/linux/themes/earthytonez_0.8.tar
Anyway, enjoy, let me know your thoughts :).