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j_baer
May 6th, 2006, 09:10 AM
Competing colors can be an issue on the desktop and there have been some complaints about the new Ubuntu Human theme in this regard. Ubuntu-Serengeti is my attempt to bring the colors of the background and icons into harmony without losing the excitement.

How-to install

1. Download the attached files.

2. Open System>Preferences>Themes

3. Choose the Human Theme

4. Click the Theme Details Button

5. Drag & drop the Ubuntu-Serengeti bz2 file into the control window. You should get a message of successful installation.

6. Scroll down and select Ubuntu-Serengeti as your control, save, and exit.

The above method will install this theme into the ~/.themes folder. This is probably the best method to evaluate it. If you desire to use it system wide the attached inst-serengeti.doc (rename from doc to sh to run) script will install it into the /usr/share/themes folder and present a mini howto (inst-docs.txt) on modifying the gdm.conf file.

BTW, I attempted to document the gtkrc file as best as I could for others who would like to travel this path and I have tested with a variety of backgrounds.

Enjoy ...
kpolice
May 7th, 2006, 10:19 AM
Thanks, I was lookinf for something like this.

BTW What font are you using in your screesnshots??
commodore
May 7th, 2006, 02:48 PM
OFFTOPIC: .doc ?!?
Rotarychainsaw
May 11th, 2006, 11:22 PM
Hey this is cool. Are you going to still tweak this, or are you done? I have no experience really with this kind of stuff, but I started editing the gtkrc.
I made the menus use the burnt orange instead of grey, and changed that dark blue to something a little lighter. Those 2 changes look nice I think.
Rotarychainsaw
May 12th, 2006, 10:00 AM
also, stuff run as root has ugly gtk1 looking theme. Anyway to fix?
jstueve
May 15th, 2006, 10:32 AM
heads up, running this theme will cause azureus to crash. I have no idea why.
Omnios
May 15th, 2006, 10:37 AM
also, stuff run as root has ugly gtk1 looking theme. Anyway to fix?

In Breezy simply copy your theme files from Home/Your_name/.themes to /usr/share/themes. Basicly this makes the theme available for root.
Rotarychainsaw
May 15th, 2006, 10:43 AM
Azureus works for me.
Ominos, thanks.
funkenstein
May 23rd, 2006, 08:46 AM
we likes eet.

eez dark like everything else around here....


*switches on the light*

oww oww oww !! the light, it hurts my eyes!! :cry:

for a minute I thought of making a cross between the two - have a dark version of the dapper human theme... and then I realised that'd be brown, like the old human theme.... :rolleyes:

ack vell, dark eet eez.

ta.
j_baer
May 25th, 2006, 12:46 PM
Hey this is cool. Are you going to still tweak this, or are you done? I have no experience really with this kind of stuff, but I started editing the gtkrc.
I made the menus use the burnt orange instead of grey, and changed that dark blue to something a little lighter. Those 2 changes look nice I think.

I think I'm pretty much done with it. I may tweek it for the final release but feel free to modify as you like.

One of my goals was to comment the gtk file in a way that would easy the path for others ...

Cheers