green gnome

[meborc]

hi all...

i was reading about the latest 2.18 gnome... and as i was lookin at the official screenshot, i fell in love - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.18/notes/en/

is there a green theme to match? i really like the brown,orange,red thing... but green would be a nice little improvement for my spring desktop :)

any ideas?

[ComplexNumber]

hi all...

i was reading about the latest 2.18 gnome... and as i was lookin at the official screenshot, i fell in love - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.18/notes/en/

is there a green theme to match? i really like the brown,orange,red thing... but green would be a nice little improvement for my spring desktop :)

any ideas?
go to gnome-look.org and type in words such as "lime", "green", or "olive" into the search engine. then select the gtk-2.0 themes. at the moment, i'm using murrina-olive. that matches reasonably well.

[meborc]

thanks... i have been to gnome-look, but what i'm looking for is a really simple gnome theme (without murrine engine)... i'll keep on looking though :)

[ComplexNumber]

thanks... i have been to gnome-look, but what i'm looking for is a really simple gnome theme (without murrine engine)... i'll keep on looking though :)
i'm not too sure what you mean by "simple". you say that you don't want to use the murrine theme engine, so what engines do you want the theme that you're ideally looking for to be based on?
here are a few screenshots with various themes highlighted:

screenshot 1:
gtk theme: Rainbow Colours Green Mid (my own theme)
metacity: candido-selected
icons: g-flat

screenshot 2:
gtk: vicious apple
metacity: candido-selected
icons: snowish

screenshot 3:
gtk: ubuntulooks-olive
metacity: ubuntulooks-metacity
icons: Human ultra green



do none of them appeal to you?

[bvc]

http://gnomethemes.org/2006/07/03/clearlooks-big-packs/

[lyceum]

hi all...

i was reading about the latest 2.18 gnome... and as i was lookin at the official screenshot, i fell in love - http://www.gnome.org/start/2.18/notes/en/

is there a green theme to match? i really like the brown,orange,red thing... but green would be a nice little improvement for my spring desktop :)

any ideas?

It is a little bit of work, but you can take the normal theme and export it to your desk top. One at a time, open an icon in GIMP and got to Tool/Color Tool/Hue-saturation. Mess with the Hue link until it is the green you like. Remember the number on the right and you can just type that number into the rest of the icons. once you are done with all of them, open the zipped file and replace the folder inside with the exported folder with your new icons. When you do it yourself, you will be customizing at the highest level, so you know each is just what you want.

[ComplexNumber]

It is a little bit of work, but you can take the normal theme and export it to your desk top. One at a time, open an icon in GIMP and got to Tool/Color Tool/Hue-saturation. Mess with the Hue link until it is the green you like. Remember the number on the right and you can just type that number into the rest of the icons. once you are done with all of them, open the zipped file and replace the folder inside with the exported folder with your new icons. When you do it yourself, you will be customizing at the highest level, so you know each is just what you want.
what icon themes would you be referring to there?

[durand]

Tango?

[steveneddy]

Here's my green Gnome....

[ComplexNumber]

Here's my green Gnome....
don't forget to mention what gtk and beryl theme that you're using.....otherwise a screenshot alone is no help to the OP.

[lyceum]

what icon themes would you be referring to there?

He was looking for a green theme. Icons are a part of a theme. If he wanted to use the Gnome default icons, and make them green (and the license is okay with that) that would be how. But it would work for any them that you are allowed to modify. I do it all the time for personal use. It was just a thought.

[derjames]

It's like the official color of 'Foresight Linux'...

[ComplexNumber]

He was looking for a green theme. Icons are a part of a theme. If he wanted to use the Gnome default icons, and make them green (and the license is okay with that) that would be how. But it would work for any them that you are allowed to modify. I do it all the time for personal use. It was just a thought.
well, the reason why i asked is because that doesn't quite work unless the theme is monocolour. if, in the case of tango, gnome, echo, or whatever, you try to turn them green, it won't work. whilst you may turn one colour(say yellow) green, the blue in the icon will become purple, the yellow will become green, the cyan will become blue, and the black and white will stay the same.
i suppose he could use gimps colouriser feature to have a green g-flat theme.

[lyceum]

well, the reason why i asked is because that doesn't quite work unless the theme is monocolour. if, in the case of tango, gnome, echo, or whatever, you try to turn them green, it won't work. whilst you may turn one colour(say yellow) green, the blue in the icon will become purple, the yellow will become green, the cyan will become blue, and the black and white will stay the same.
i suppose he could use gimps colouriser feature to have a green g-flat theme.

Yeah, sometimes you have to play around with things a bit more than others. For dark colors some times over saturating helps, and sometimes that just makes it even worse :) I have not really messed with the Gnome icons themselves, as I find them a tad boring. So, thanks for the info.

[Paulus]

setting your fonts to slight will help getting them to look more like the screenshot.

See this thread to make the judgment yourself..

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=386661

[steveneddy]

don't forget to mention what gtk and beryl theme that you're using.....otherwise a screenshot alone is no help to the OP.

OK - Without Beryl running I am running Linsta Vista from Gnome-look.org. It is a black window border with Vista like buttons. The icons all around are the OSX version that I also found at gnome-look.org.

With Beryl running I am using the Aero-glass theme in emerald. I think that it one of the restricted themes. I changed the settings so the colors are a little green. It took a lot of trial and error, but if you choose a light green color and make each layer a little different shade then it makes the effect that much greater.

I always look for the green colored wallpapers that have grass, grasshoppers and frogs in them. The more green the better.

The transparent terminal was colored by the Gnome-Terminal controls and I disabled the buttons to get the cool effect of....no buttons. You can right click and choose to show the buttons if you wish. Terminal won't be truly trans until you install Beryl.

I also made the Gnome panels transparent and tinted them a litttle green. I like green because I was so tired of the MS blue all the time.

Green is good.

-SE