Old themes

[rswoods]

Where did they come from? Glider, Redmond, Raleigh, Mist, Simple, and ThinIce have been a default part of popular Linux distributions for as far back as I remember. There is little information available about them. Who made these themes, and what were their goals in making them?

[Exodist]

In short they where themes made back when Gnome 1 and GTK were still new. They did the best they could with what they had.

I for one used WindowMaker extensively back then with GTK for a widget backend.

[yabbadabbadont]

Strangely enough, I'm using Glider GTK now. My favorites are themes that use the smooth engine, but it was dropped as unsupported from the latest versions of gtk2-engines. :(

[rswoods]

Glider is a good one, a good balance between aesthetics and speed. Redmond is my favorite, it is super-fast :), even if it isn't exactly a looker. What themes use the smooth engine?

[LunaticHiatus]

Im thinking CRUX is based on the old CRUX distro that Arch is based off of. Not sure though