Aurora - most polished gtk engine?

Mazza558

Every gtk theme or engine I try seems really buggy or unpolished compared to Aurora, and using Aurora makes my desktops look smooth and professional, more so than even the legendary clearlooks, and in my opinion, KDE4's Oxygen theme. Every theme I've tried so far on gnome-look just pushes me back to Aurora.

A link for those who are unaware of Aurora:

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/sh...?content=56438

Some themes prevent me from using them because they use a background for items on the gnome bars, which is annoying if you want a transparent taskbar. Others don't let you change the window colours, meaning that if they're too grey/ <insert colour here>, you can't do much about it. My one and only pet peeve with it is the colour of tooltips, and AFAIK, there's no way to change it.

Anyone else love Aurora?

miggols99

I use it on my Gnome computer, and I love the black theme. Too bad there aren't that many black themes for KDE...

-grubby · 07:03 PM

This looks like a contender to clearlooks. I'll try it. Didn't install right. Oh well

SunnyRabbiera

aurora is alright, but I prefer some of the others out there

Mazza558

Quote:

Originally Posted by SunnyRabbiera

aurora is alright, but I prefer some of the others out there

It's more personal preference than anything. I love polished, smooth themes, more so than the Murrina themes.

SunnyRabbiera

personally I prefer more glossy engines, but thats just me I guess

stunner

Looks nice - I'm not a fan of dark themes generally but this one looks nice. One thing I don't like is the harsh blue widgets. This would make for a great black/green combo though...I'm quite tempted to try it.

bruce89

If it was a real GTK+ engine, you can change the colours manually.

yatt

I don't like how uncustomizable Aurora is. I mean, if you are willing to dig into a text file to edit it, you should at least have some things to change. Murrine lets you change so much; Aurora took the opposite approach.

blithen

...I've been trying to install it for an hour now. And after that hour I learned why I prefer the Command Line of a GUI.

November 24th, 2007	#1
Mazza558 Has an Ubuntu Drip Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: UK Beans: 741 Ubuntu Karmic Koala (testing)	Aurora - most polished gtk engine? Every gtk theme or engine I try seems really buggy or unpolished compared to Aurora, and using Aurora makes my desktops look smooth and professional, more so than even the legendary clearlooks, and in my opinion, KDE4's Oxygen theme. Every theme I've tried so far on gnome-look just pushes me back to Aurora. A link for those who are unaware of Aurora: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/sh...?content=56438 Some themes prevent me from using them because they use a background for items on the gnome bars, which is annoying if you want a transparent taskbar. Others don't let you change the window colours, meaning that if they're too grey/ <insert colour here>, you can't do much about it. My one and only pet peeve with it is the colour of tooltips, and AFAIK, there's no way to change it. Anyone else love Aurora? __________________ Laptop: Inspiron 1501 - AMD64 (Dual Core), 1GB RAM, 120 GB HDD, ATI 1150. Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty testing. Beginner's Guide to the Terminal! \| FutureLooks 3 on GNOME-Look \| Follow me on Twitter!

November 24th, 2007	#2
miggols99 Dipped in Ubuntu Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: England Beans: 566 Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope	Re: Aurora - most polished gtk engine? I use it on my Gnome computer, and I love the black theme. Too bad there aren't that many black themes for KDE... __________________ Current distro: Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope I like KDE Archux - Arch Linux tutorials and my blog about Linux: http://archux.com

November 24th, 2007	#3
-grubby Dark Roasted Ubuntu Join Date: Aug 2007 Beans: 1,129	Re: Aurora - most polished gtk engine? This looks like a contender to clearlooks. I'll try it. Didn't install right. Oh well __________________ Pastebin sudo add-apt-repository ppa:whatever <-- new Karmic command Last edited by -grubby; November 24th, 2007 at 07:03 PM..

November 24th, 2007	#4
SunnyRabbiera Ubuntu addict and loving it Join Date: Jun 2005 Beans: 6,221	Re: Aurora - most polished gtk engine? aurora is alright, but I prefer some of the others out there __________________ HP Pavillion a1310y with DVD rom and CD Burner, Intel Pentium 4HT, 2 GB memory, 80 gig HD my testimony remember kiddies: sudo rm -rf= BAD!, if someone tells you to do this, please ignore them unless YOU WANT YOUR SYSTEM WIPED

November 24th, 2007	#6
SunnyRabbiera Ubuntu addict and loving it Join Date: Jun 2005 Beans: 6,221	Re: Aurora - most polished gtk engine? personally I prefer more glossy engines, but thats just me I guess __________________ HP Pavillion a1310y with DVD rom and CD Burner, Intel Pentium 4HT, 2 GB memory, 80 gig HD my testimony remember kiddies: sudo rm -rf= BAD!, if someone tells you to do this, please ignore them unless YOU WANT YOUR SYSTEM WIPED

November 24th, 2007	#7
stunner Just Give Me the Beans! Join Date: Nov 2007 Beans: 58 Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon	Re: Aurora - most polished gtk engine? Looks nice - I'm not a fan of dark themes generally but this one looks nice. One thing I don't like is the harsh blue widgets. This would make for a great black/green combo though...I'm quite tempted to try it. __________________ HP DV8210us \| ATI 200M - xgl/fglrx (compiz benchmark ~100 fps) \| BCM 4318 - ndiswrapper (from source) + 32bit winxp driver

November 24th, 2007	#8
bruce89 Tall Cafè Ubuntu Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Beans: 2,488	Re: Aurora - most polished gtk engine? If it was a real GTK+ engine, you can change the colours manually. __________________ GNOME en_GB committer.

November 24th, 2007	#9
yatt A Carafe of Ubuntu Join Date: Jan 2006 Beans: 87	Re: Aurora - most polished gtk engine? I don't like how uncustomizable Aurora is. I mean, if you are willing to dig into a text file to edit it, you should at least have some things to change. Murrine lets you change so much; Aurora took the opposite approach. __________________ AMD Opteron 165 \| 3GB \| ATI Radeon X1800

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