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author | Kylie McClain <somasissounds@gmail.com> | 2015-02-16 00:12:45 -0500 |
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committer | Kylie McClain <somasissounds@gmail.com> | 2015-02-16 00:12:45 -0500 |
commit | 8c511e012a30181452d54f67939dbf9d81f51d5b (patch) | |
tree | 824db56514b296c2cd93bd633cdba0cc7781203e /README.md | |
parent | cede5f5a794ebf91a8ca824cf5bfd5e96aa8c463 (diff) |
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@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ # shiki-colors-revival - This consists mostly of a script that modifies the original Zukitwo theme's files to fit to all of the colors in the GNOME Colors palette. @@ -7,6 +6,12 @@ At the moment, these themes are currently intended to be used with Xfce4, since that's what I use. If you run into problems in another desktop environment, I'll try to help the best I can though. +## Included +- GTK 2 and 3 themes +- Xfwm4 themes +- Openbox themes +- [Plank](https://launchpad.net/plank) themes + ## Installing 1. Open a terminal in this repo's directory. 2. `./make-colors-themes generate` @@ -14,18 +19,46 @@ I'll try to help the best I can though. Use `./make-colors-themes` if you want to know what else the installer can do. +## How this works +In order to minimize the amount of maintenance needed, we base these themes off +of [zuki-themes] so that we benefit from [lassekongo83]'s work on Zukitwo. +The themes are then generated by using regular expressions to replace certain +variables in the CSS to change the colors to fit the [GNOME Colors palette] +rather than using Zukitwo's default colors. + +After replacing the colors, some patches are applied for some more complicated +patches; at the moment, we use a patch to enable a dark menubar theme, and to +add a panel background image. + +As a result of doing it this method, we don't have to worry about updating the +CSS every time GNOME's developers decide to break everything with a new minor +version of GTK3, again. We can make upstream do all the work. :) + ## Current problems +- Due to the way Zukitwo does GTK3's switch elements, they do not properly fit + the different color themes. Zukitwo uses images for the switches, rather than + pure CSS. Pull requests to fix this are welcomed, though. - I'm still learning GTK, and GNOME developers, for some god-only-knows-why reason they decided to provide pretty awful documentation. - Eventually this will stop working since GNOME developers will probably think that GTK 3 on non-GNOME environments is deprecated or something, and not worth their support. It's probably better to use Qt in the future. - At the moment, the theme is (obviously) not a completely accurate recreation - of Shiki-Colors-Murrine. As of writing, the menubar color doesn't blend with - the titlebars yet, and the only things that match are the background colors - and the selected background colors. However, if you don't care about the - menubar color then you might feel this is good enough anyway. + of Shiki-Colors-Murrine. It is not intended to really be a pixel-for-pixel + remake of the theme; times have changed, and I like to think that so would + the original theme if it were still being developed. ## Credits -- Zuki-themes by [lassekongo83](http://lassekongo83.deviantart.com/) -- Zukitwo-Colors-Xfwm by [fredbird67](http://xfce-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=fredbird67) +- [zuki-themes] by [lassekongo83] +- [Shiki-Colors-Xfwm] by [fredbird67] +- Shiki-Colors-Openbox by [Arthur Spitzer] + - also, note that I don't use Openbox so I can not really vouch for this. I + will gladly accept any contributions by Openbox users concerning this + theme, though. + +[zuki-themes]: https://github.com/lassekongo83/zuki-themes +[Shiki-Colors-Xfwm]: http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Zukitwo-Colors+Xfwm+Themes?content=148624 +[lassekongo83]: http://lassekongo83.deviantart.com/ +[fredbird67]: http://xfce-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=fredbird67 +[Arthur Spitzer]: https://code.google.com/p/gnome-colors/issues/detail?id=75#c21 +[GNOME Colors palette]: https://github.com/Somasis/gnome-colors-revival/blob/master/Palette.png
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