Light GTK Theme?

[sports fan Matt]

What is a good , light GTK with controls and borders..what would ya'll suggest?

[Exodist]

www.gnome-look.org

Anything by CB2k, MK64 or Myself will rock.

[koleoptero]

What is a good , light GTK with controls and borders..what would ya'll suggest?

You could've been more specific. :P

Shiki colours? Human? New Wave? :P

[earthpigg]

www.gnome-look.org

Anything by CB2k, MK64 or Myself will rock.

remember, don't get .debs from there, and ignore any directions that involve you typing 'sudo' or entering your password unless you understand exactly what you are doing :D

[AllRadioisDead]

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/autumn?content=116993&PHPSESSID=6164fe7a76d43e985af549dead1e42b5
This was on the front page. That was hard.

[sports fan Matt]

Something like Shiki Colors but without all the extras is what Im looking for. Something like Wasp, I think. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Wasp?content=104167

Anything near it or is wasp a good choice?

[Exodist]

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/autumn?content=116993&PHPSESSID=6164fe7a76d43e985af549dead1e42b5
This was on the front page. That was hard.
OUCH.. that will cause a migraine headache.


These are better:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Gnome+Legacy?content=115142
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Achromatic+Gtk2x?content=116405

[Sealbhach]

OUCH.. that will cause a migraine headache.
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Achromatic+Gtk2x?content=116405

I'd like to try this one but it doesn't install for me. It doesn't seem to be packaged like most of the other theme packs.

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[chucky chuckaluck]

NiteAurora is very light and the colors are easily changed to even lighter.

[Psumi]

I'd like to try this one but it doesn't install for me. It doesn't seem to be packaged like most of the other theme packs.

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Most people package correctly, however, some people make it so you have to install their themes "manually" into your .themes directory. They probably do this because of the fact they want you to learn how to install manually, and if you can't, you're not worthy, which I believe is very rude.

[crimesaucer]

These are better:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Achromatic+Gtk2x?content=116405

The Aurora Gtk Engine is not at all "light", it's actually one of the heavier and slower gtk engine out there. (I can't remember the page where I saw the benchmarks)


A good simple fast gtk engine is the xfce4 gtk engine. It won't be a pretty as Aurora, Murrine, or Clearlooks but it will be faster. There are some nice themes out for the xfce4 engine, and it's very easy to change your gtkrc for xfce4 themes.


I used to write a lot of themes for the xfce4 engine, here were two of my better ones from 2007:

http://crimesaucer.deviantart.com/art/Brown-xubuntu-61045972
http://crimesaucer.deviantart.com/art/Silver-Xfce-59382159

[chucky chuckaluck]

The Aurora Gtk Engine is not at all "light", it's actually one of the heavier and slower gtk engine out there. (I can't remember the page where I saw the benchmarks)


A good simple fast gtk engine is the xfce4 gtk engine. It won't be a pretty as Aurora, Murrine, or Clearlooks but it will be faster. There are some nice themes out for the xfce4 engine, and it's very easy to change your gtkrc for xfce4 themes.

haha! i thought he meant light as in coloring. actually, aurora is rated pretty high in speed according to this page - http://gianvito.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/gtk-engines-benchmarks-whats-the-fastest/

[crimesaucer]

haha! i thought he meant light as in coloring. actually, aurora is rated pretty high in speed according to this page - http://gianvito.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/gtk-engines-benchmarks-whats-the-fastest/

You know what, he might of meant a light color?


Aurora was listed as the slowest of all the engines on page 4: http://gianvito.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/gtk-engines-benchmarks-whats-the-fastest/4/

Murrine is fast enough for me to stay with, and it looks so much better than xfce4 and most other engines.

[Sealbhach]

Most people package correctly, however, some people make it so you have to install their themes "manually" into your .themes directory.

I tried the .themes route already, but it doesn't show up as an available theme.

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[crimesaucer]

I tried the .themes route already, but it doesn't show up as an available theme.

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You can also place the theme into your /usr/share/themes directory. (I've never used the ~/.themes directory)

[gradinaruvasile]

Fastest but ugliest is the "fall-back" theme - that can be "set" if the selected thems's engine is not installed.

[cb951303]

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Elegant+Brit?content=74553

[Isengrin]

Nimbus, the default in OpenSolaris. One of the greatest, if not the best, light themes ever seen.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Nimbus?content=70212

[Exodist]

The Aurora Gtk Engine is not at all "light", it's actually one of the heavier and slower gtk engine out there. (I can't remember the page where I saw the benchmarks)


A good simple fast gtk engine is the xfce4 gtk engine. It won't be a pretty as Aurora, Murrine, or Clearlooks but it will be faster. There are some nice themes out for the xfce4 engine, and it's very easy to change your gtkrc for xfce4 themes.


I used to write a lot of themes for the xfce4 engine, here were two of my better ones from 2007:

http://crimesaucer.deviantart.com/art/Brown-xubuntu-61045972
http://crimesaucer.deviantart.com/art/Silver-Xfce-59382159


I think you are confusing the word "LIGHT" with "LITE"..

Also my theme uses Pixbuff and Clearlooks engines. Plus its fast, I designed it that way.
I have it running on a 1GHz PPC, 512MB RAM and a Radeon 7200 with generic 2D drivers. Works great!

[crimesaucer]

I think you are confusing the word "LIGHT" with "LITE"..

Also my theme uses Pixbuff and Clearlooks engines. Plus its fast, I designed it that way.
I have it running on a 1GHz PPC, 512MB RAM and a Radeon 7200 with generic 2D drivers. Works great!

I've never noticed lightweight written as "lite" before, and in post #13 was where I realized that the op was talking about the theme's color and not "light" as in light resources.


I also didn't mean to sound like I was trashing you gtk themes, I really wasn't. I just saw Aurora in the 4th line down in the description of the Achromatic theme:



Description:
Achromatic Gtk2 Theme & Metacity v1 Fully Re-colorable

Murrine & Aurora Powered theme.

Built & Tested with Karmic and Jaunty.


Aurora Gtk Engine(Ubuntu PPA) 1.5.1 (Ubuntu PPA: Hardy, Intrepid, Juanty, and Karmic.)



..... and at that point I still thought the op was trying to get a "light-on-the-resources-gtk-theme" so I just mentioned that Aurora as a gtk engine isn't "light" or "lite": http://gianvito.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/gtk-engines-benchmarks-whats-the-fastest/4/


Sorry for the confusion. (ps. I've also read that themes that use pixbuff and images are also pretty slow compared to other themes using native widgets)


I also should of mentioned that I think that 'Achromatic Gtk2 Theme' looks good.

[crimesaucer]

Again, I apologize for starting an off topic conversation about lightweight gtk theme engines.....


It's just that I spend a lot of time in the Archlinux Forum where every other post is about what's the lightest Desktop Environment, or some new app that's fast and light, or lightweight Window Managers, or something being lighter on the resources that something else..... so the minute I saw the word "light" describing a gtk theme I immediately though of the xfce4 themes as the lightest.


My bad.

[Psumi]

bluecurve is the most lightweight, and I find it a bit pleasing to be honest. You can install it by searching bluecurve in synaptic, and installing a package with "wonderland" at the end of its name.

[sports fan Matt]

Ok, going to clarify: Lighter in color is what im looking for.

[koleoptero]

Ok, going to clarify: Lighter in color is what im looking for.

Install a theme that lets you customize the colours from the theme dialogue and turn them all white. Can't get brighter than that.

Also check out: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Unified1.0?content=109391