Flow
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
This theme requires Murrine 0.98 or Murrine from git.
Do not install this theme using Gnome's appearance properties dialog! Untar it manually to ~/.themes or /usr/share/themes. Otherwise, the Flow-Common folder will not be included, and it is absolutely required.
When upgrading to Flow 2.0, completely remove the old version first in order to minimize clutter. A bunch of modules were moved around, so Flow-Common will end up looking very messy if you don't.
To flow means to move as a fluid from one position to another, or to move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. This theme does all of the above.
This theme is based on the Murrine version of Shiki-Colors by perfectska04. It has evolved greatly from Shiki-Colors, in many ways, but is still designed to work with Gnome-Colors. I thank perfectska04 for his excellent work on the entire Gnome-Colors suite.
There are two main features to this theme. The first is its general appearance, which is on par with beautiful engines like Equinox. The second and main feature is its sheer customizability: this theme is completely modular. The meat of the theme is specified in .rc files. The gtkrc file, in addition to color scheme, icon size, and general gtk option definitions, includes these modules. This means that you can enable and disable a certain feature or customization with nothing more than the addition or removal of a single #.
The following customizations are available as of the current version:
- Smooth or glossy buttons, with the option to invert the gradient
- Smooth or glossy selected color items (progress bars, check/radio boxes), also with the option to invert the gradient
- Smooth or glossy menu items, also with the option to invert the gradient
- Standard or inverted gradient for selected treeview items
- Three shapes for sliders: pill-shaped with handle, bullet-shaped with no handle, or that diagononal bottom dealie they're using in Ubuntu's Light themes.
- Two scrollbar options: faded trough to create the illusion of connectivity, or the scrollbars right out of Elementary! Thanks to Dan Rabbit for creating the Elementary theme and open sourcing it!
- Normal, light, dark, or selected color panels
- Blended, gradient, light, dark, or selected color menus
- Popup menus using the base color, ala Mac OS.
- Blended, gradient, light, dark, or selected color toolbars
- Normal, dark, or selected color window decorations, as well as the option to replace the selected colors with normal colors
- Bold text for panel menus
- Enhancements to xfdesktop
- Enhancements to xfce4-panel
- Thunar-Elementary (requires modified Thunar, though, and is thus disabled by default)
This theme includes all of the Shiki color schemes in Shiki-style configurations, as well as two additional ones: Sublime, a teal one, and Aqua, using an ArchLinux shade of blue. :P It also includes a replacement for Ubuntu's Radiance theme with the Radiance colors, and a version of that with a teal selection color called Seafoam. Two other experimental themes are included, Flow-Element, which imitates Elementary, and Flow-Shade, a dark theme.
It also includes a userChrome.css that you can use in Firefox and Thunderbird to make it fit in better. Or if you're more comfortable using Stylish, you can use this userstyle: http://userstyles.org/styles/37710?r=1286044648
The Gnome-Sublime and Gnome-Light icon themes recommended by Flow-Sublime, Flow-Seafoam, and Flow-Radiance can be downloaded here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11745544/gnome-sublime-light.tgz
I do need a hand for something, if anyone's looking to help. I don't have Nautilus. I don't want Nautilus. So if anyone would be so kind as to create a Nautilus-Elementary module, it will be included in the next version of Flow. And if you want to make a module for another application, send it my way! Any other proposed improvements to the theme will be considered for inclusion as well.
10 years ago
2.0:
- Many visual improvements to the theme, aiming for a look that imitates Equinox, but appears a little bit softer.
- Massively improved customizability. There are a lot more things that can be customized now.
- And all the things that were customizeable before now have more customizations.
- Created a Thunar-Elementary module which tries to imitate Nautilus-Elementary. Unfortunately, it will look really stupid unless you use a modified Thunar. See the module file for more info.
1.2:
- Changed the button style to a gradient.
- Reduced the relative brightness of tabs.
- Cleaned up the gtkrc code a little.
1.1:
- Now uses the focusstyle and expanderstyle options, so requires the very latest Murrine from git.
- Reduced the brightness of the theme-lighter style, and raised the overall brightness of each theme to compensate. After I looked at the old one for a while, the contrast between buttons and the other parts of the theme looked really glaring.
- Changed the name of the base color menu module, and made it look more Mac OS-esque.
- Lots of other little changes that lend to making the theme look better, such as reducing the engine contrast, and changing glazestyle to 5.
- I have a dropbox now, and that's where the Gnome-Sublime and Gnome-Light icon themes are now located.
1.0.3:
- Commented out the useless cellstyle setting in theme-default.rc to increase compatibility with earlier murrine revisions.
1.0.2:
- Re-archived and re-uploaded all archives. They should actually work now. ;)
- Clarified directions.
1.0.1:
- Changed icon host to MediaFire. 2shared is terrible.
1.0:
- Initial release
10 years ago
2.0:
- Many visual improvements to the theme, aiming for a look that imitates Equinox, but appears a little bit softer.
- Massively improved customizability. There are a lot more things that can be customized now.
- And all the things that were customizeable before now have more customizations.
- Created a Thunar-Elementary module which tries to imitate Nautilus-Elementary. Unfortunately, it will look really stupid unless you use a modified Thunar. See the module file for more info.
1.2:
- Changed the button style to a gradient.
- Reduced the relative brightness of tabs.
- Cleaned up the gtkrc code a little.
1.1:
- Now uses the focusstyle and expanderstyle options, so requires the very latest Murrine from git.
- Reduced the brightness of the theme-lighter style, and raised the overall brightness of each theme to compensate. After I looked at the old one for a while, the contrast between buttons and the other parts of the theme looked really glaring.
- Changed the name of the base color menu module, and made it look more Mac OS-esque.
- Lots of other little changes that lend to making the theme look better, such as reducing the engine contrast, and changing glazestyle to 5.
- I have a dropbox now, and that's where the Gnome-Sublime and Gnome-Light icon themes are now located.
1.0.3:
- Commented out the useless cellstyle setting in theme-default.rc to increase compatibility with earlier murrine revisions.
1.0.2:
- Re-archived and re-uploaded all archives. They should actually work now. ;)
- Clarified directions.
1.0.1:
- Changed icon host to MediaFire. 2shared is terrible.
1.0:
- Initial release
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Flow is part of GTK Themes and Add-ons, which is supported by the following people:
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Magnusmaster
9 years ago
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XAHydra
8 years ago
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iamganlu
10 years ago
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iamganlu
10 years ago
Other question: Could color of gnome-panel be changed according to skin's color? Thanks.
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TiZ
10 years ago
dark_bg_color and dark_fg_color control what colors the dark parts of the theme are. The frame_color and inactive_frame_color ones are specific to Chrome.
So. When you ask about changing the color of the gnome panel according to the skin's color... which color are you talking about? If you disable the dark panel module, it will be the bg_color. If you want the color of the panel to be the selected_bg_color, that's not supported yet. But assuming you're not using any dark widgets in your customized theme, you can just change the dark colors to whatever you want to use and turn on the dark panel module.
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iamganlu
10 years ago
Thanks for your reply.
[1]http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Fibrous+Themes?content=55100
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TiZ
10 years ago
Anyways, as for what you're trying to ask. Do you want the panels to match your window decorations? I could make a module for that pretty easily for the next release.
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iamganlu
10 years ago
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bradwjensen
10 years ago
If this is not the latest, where/how do I download the latest?
Your theme extracts fine, but does not render correctly on my Lucid machine. Instead, I get the theme that shows up for the root user when a theme is used from a different users home/.themes folder.
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bradwjensen
10 years ago
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deny26
10 years ago
btw where I can download Arch icon package?
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TiZ
10 years ago
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skersten
10 years ago
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skersten
10 years ago
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ElTimo
10 years ago
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TiZ
10 years ago
I don't know if I'm just in a highly irritated mood or what, but I feel the need to make this perfectly clear, both to you and to everyone:
Murrine's development version has not been in SVN for MONTHS! It moved to GIT, months ago!
Install from git and try again, please.
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mrmars
10 years ago
and installed the themes to the folder, not using the Appearence properties drag and drop.
(I moved the folders with nautilus, this should be ok, the flow-common is in too.)
BUT i still can't use the themes! There's a big question mark upon them in the theme selection window, and if i select one of them it says i haven't shiki-metacity (which should be no problem, since these are gtk themes), and give me a win98-like aspect...
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TiZ
10 years ago
Here's what I noticed in your post. You said you got murrine from svn. Murrine was moved to a git repository some time ago. You can probably still get the svn version, but it's waaaay behind. Make sure you're using the git version instead of the svn version.
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mrmars
10 years ago
gtk2-engines-murrine
0.90.3+git20100323-0ubuntu4~ppa1~lucid
23 03 2010, it means it's about 2 months old, ain't it the latest version?
Any murrine theme, even with rgba works, but flow!
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TiZ
10 years ago
The cellstyle option used in theme-default.rc was added on 3/25, two days after the revision you have. But it doesn't actually seem to do anything, so I've commented it out and re-uploaded it. You don't actually need to re-download it, just go to theme-default.rc in the Flow-Common folder and comment out cellstyle = 0 on line 142.
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cebxan
10 years ago
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TiZ
10 years ago
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cebxan
10 years ago
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TiZ
10 years ago
Second, I made a new archive using tar from the command line rather than File Roller. This one should work. Can you confirm it?
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cebxan
10 years ago
If I may, I think it's best to put in the instructions to untar this on .themes rather than installing through the appeareance tool of gnome (I saw this theme in gnome-look), because it gives an error about the Flow-Common folder (it's not a proper theme file) and it won't be included in the .themes folder. Maybe that will save you a few questions.
I wanted to ask you something else. Is there an option to make the menu items a little bigger (the main menu, I mean)? The only example I can remember is the dichotomy theme.
Thanks again.
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