FutureLooks 3 Core Theme released! (Feedback needed)

**hyperdude111** · May 20th, 2009

Brilliant theme, i love it. I was already using an earlier version of futurelooks before I saw this.

Amazing!!

**Mazza558** · May 20th, 2009

Originally Posted by Dagonn

Am i the only one who have some troubles with the Emerald ..?

Sometimes, the buttons minimize/maximize/close disappear..

Minimize all windows and bring them up again. Or click "show desktop".

It shouldn't happen unless you're tweaking compiz settings.

**Mazza558** · June 4th, 2009

Feel free to try the gtk theme (basically a beta but little will change), which is based on Murrine and uses glassy scrollbars/progressbars (like Oxygen on KDE). Screenshot on the first page of the June Desktop thread. And yes, you do need the latest Murrine, which means if you have Jaunty, you'll be fine.

Note that I haven't specified the default colors for the theme to use, so you might have to tweak it a bit in the appearance manager.

It should, however, work fine with the emerald decorations (e.g match the emerald colors) out of the box.

**Viva** · June 4th, 2009

Just read that the murrine svn supports transparency, does your theme include any?

**Mazza558** · June 4th, 2009

Originally Posted by Viva

Just read that the murrine svn supports transparency, does your theme include any?

The last I heard of Murrine, it required patches to every app that you wanted to be transparent... has that changed then?

**Viva** · June 4th, 2009

Oh, didn't know that. Anyway, the emerald border is light, but the gtk theme looks darker. Are you going to release multiple versions?

**kc3** · June 4th, 2009

Very nice, I'll have to check that out when I get home

**Mazza558** · June 4th, 2009

Originally Posted by Viva

Oh, didn't know that. Anyway, the emerald border is light, but the gtk theme looks darker. Are you going to release multiple versions?

I thought this might happen. You can change the gtk color by changing the settings in the appearance manager for now. When you get the color chooser cursor, click on the lowest part of the emerald border to get matching colors.

**Mazza558** · July 1st, 2009

Major update today. Firstly, the theme is now available in separate parts on GNOME-look (but you might already know this). The link is in my signature.

The theme now has a GTK element based on Murrine and has a metacity theme to use instead of emerald (see the OP for a screenshot). A switch to the elementary icons fits the overall theme better and reduced the size of the entire archive to 10mb.

Hope you enjoy it