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SaikoBee

Brian Mock Salem, United States of America
Hi, I am SaikoBee and I create GTK2 Themes, KDE 3.5 Themes, Beryl/Emerald Themes and more.

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Royal Robo

GTK2 Themes 3 comments

by SaikoBee
Score 58.0%
Aug 29 2012
It's a screenshot from the game Sword & Sworcery. I uploaded the wallpaper here: http://i.imgur.com/5Ujfv.png

I recommend Faience or Faenza for the icon set. - Sep 19 2012
Moka

GTK2 Themes 33 comments

by rent0n
Score 63.3%
Mar 22 2010
I think that's actually a feature... - Feb 03 2011
Guitar Xfwm: Amplifier

XFCE/XFWM4 Themes 2 comments

by starcycle
Score 50.0%
Sep 01 2010
マジウケる。 - Dec 23 2010
Sugar

GTK2 Themes 88 comments

by SamsamTS
Score 58.9%
Sep 04 2010
Very clean, just enough dark. - Mar 17 2010
Green

GTK2 Themes 10 comments

by Fhtang
Score 46.0%
Jan 03 2010
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Mardi Gras SlicknesS

GTK2 Themes 4 comments

by fredbird67
Score 58.0%
Jan 02 2010
The scrollbars and progressbars make me gag a little bit, but I really like the bold use of color on the menubar and titlebar. - Jan 03 2010
axonkolorish

Openbox Themes 3 comments

by anubis2591
Score 50.0%
Mar 30 2009
It's a very impressive port, especially over to Openbox. - Jan 01 2010
Zoomba

GTK2 Themes 9 comments

by SaikoBee
Score 50.0%
Dec 29 2009
Luxi Sans Bold 8pt with slight hinting. You should be able to download it here: http://www.fontex.org/download/Luxi-sans.ttf - Jan 01 2010
It works for me. Sorry. - Dec 30 2009
Hakumei

GTK2 Themes 3 comments

by SaikoBee
Score 63.3%
Dec 24 2009
Hakumei Gradient if you want to check it out. - Dec 25 2009
I'm not much a gradient fan myself, but perhaps that would be a good thing to release alongside this. I think I'll make one. - Dec 25 2009
Shinku

GTK2 Themes 10 comments

by SaikoBee
Score 63.3%
Oct 04 2009
That's because my window decoration theme only works for openbox, but you are likely using metacity as your window manager. Sorry, I don't know how to make metacity themes. Does anyone know a good windeco to match this theme? - Oct 06 2009
GNOME is saying the theme isn't installed right but it looks like it is to me. So I'm not entirely sure. - Oct 05 2009
Thanks :D - Oct 05 2009
Thanks - Oct 05 2009
Shinobi

GTK2 Themes 29 comments

by SaikoBee
Score 70.0%
Apr 07 2009
Glad you like it!

Brownies are the best things ever *nom*. - May 15 2009
Lucky you, I'm already working on two themes that fit what you requested. I'll try and remember to comment you back when I post them. The names will likely be Broken Oreo and Macchiato Double Shot if you'd just rather keep a lookout on the main page for when they are released. - Apr 10 2009
This is already pretty light for a dark theme. Maybe you'd prefer a grey theme? - Apr 10 2009
Not unless the Murrine engine supports a feature like this. I'm not switching to Aurora. Sorry. - Apr 10 2009
Check the new description, I added several colors! Now you can have six different users for your setup :) - Apr 07 2009
Are you using GNOME? If so, all you need to do is change the selected colors for the theme to change.

If not, message me back and I'll put the multiple colors back into the theme. Sorry, I was being lazy when I updated it. - Apr 05 2009
What distribution are you using?

If you have the newest Ubuntu, it comes with the right version of Murrine. You also need to install the Aurora engine. You can search for them with synaptic. - Jan 10 2009
Glad you like my theme!

Are you using xfce?
The screenshot is of an xfce desktop, so if you use GNOME it will sadly look different! D: - Jan 09 2009
Sadly, I don't know. That's a GNOME-related thing. If you can find me another theme that incorporates the smaller icon sizes in the GNOME menu that you like, link me to it. I'll investigate it and fold the changes into my theme. - Jan 07 2009
If you dislike the font sizes, look throughout the files Shinobi/gtk-2.0/base.gtkrc and Shinobi/gtk-2.0/panel.rc

You should find lines that say "font_name =" in them. Change the numbers in them to change the font sizes. For example

Quote:
font_name = "Bold 7"

could become
Quote:
font_name = "Bold 9"

or it could become
Quote:
font_name = "8"


If that's not what you were saying or you need more help, just say so. - Jan 07 2009
Open the file ~/.themes/Shinobi/gtk-2.0/base.gtkrc (or /usr/share/themes/Shinobi/gtk-2.0/base.gtkrc if you installed this system-wide)
(Yes, it's this file even if you use a different color variant than blue)

Look for the section:
style "murrine-menu" = "murrine-wider"

In that section there are two lines:
xthickness = 8
ythickness = 8

Those numbers are the padding values, so just change them to whatever you want. Now that you mention it, I seem to prefer the values of each set to 4. I've also edited the windeco to have a slightly less noticeable light border. Thanks for your interest in my theme. I will now be uploading the new version. - Jan 07 2009
I was able to make a decoration that looked similar to this just fine. but in porting over the window buttons emerald needs an image for when you hover over the buttons... I suppose I could just not make the buttons look different on hover, but this would probably confuse many people. Would you be willing to make buttons?

I installed compiz and emerald so I could try and make that, but I will not install metacity nor try to make a metacity theme. I dislike the method used to create metacity themes and do not wish to learn it. If this surprises you, read the "NOTE!!!!" section in my description ;)

I hope you'll use my theme anyway. Perhaps you could recommend a good metacity theme to other users in your comments here? Maybe this theme will become popular enough for someone to make a metacity theme. Who knows. - Jan 07 2009
I was able to make a decoration that looked similar to this just fine. but in porting over the window buttons emerald needs an image for when you hover over the buttons... I suppose I could just not make the buttons look different on hover, but this would probably confuse many people. Would you be willing to make buttons?

I installed compiz and emerald so I could try and make that, but I will not install metacity nor try to make a metacity theme. I dislike the method used to create metacity themes and do not wish to learn it. If this surprises you, read the "NOTE!!!!" section in my description ;)

I hope you'll use my theme anyway. Perhaps you could recommend a good metacity theme to other users in your comments here? Maybe this theme will become popular enough for someone to make a metacity theme. Who knows. - Jan 07 2009
Thanks :)
Bling is definitely the right word. Most dark themes simply have none, or they have way too much (like every single pixmap theme with a 12px gloss at the top of every button). Believe it or not, until yesterday, this theme was completely flat. - Jan 06 2009
Macchiato Double Shot

GTK2 Themes 8 comments

by SaikoBee
Score 58.0%
Apr 13 2009
GNOME-Colors Wise. Enjoy.

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GNOME-colors?content=82562 - Apr 18 2009
GNOME-Colors Wise. Enjoy.

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GNOME-colors?content=82562 - Apr 18 2009
Are you saying this theme doesn't work under Xfce? It sure does for me.

You need the Aurora, Clearlooks, and Murrine svn engines for this to work. - Apr 17 2009
Macchiato

GTK2 Themes 81 comments

by SpecKtacle
Score 74.0%
Apr 15 2009
Oh, my bad, I just realized why I thought it looked different: I've never looked at your theme on my laptop before. - Apr 17 2009
It seems that the toolbar/menubar is darker now, did you like how I made it darker in my variant? :O - Apr 17 2009
Elegant Pattern

GTK2 Themes 54 comments

by Netsu
Score 50.0%
Sep 14 2009
But neat. Very original. - Apr 07 2009
Elegant Brit Emerald

Beryl/Emerald Themes 16 comments

by fmrbpensador
Score 58.0%
Mar 06 2008
This happens to me when I make emerald themes too. If it's an emerald bug. If the borders of the windeco are too thin, that shadow bug happens. - Apr 06 2009
Dragon

Compiz Themes 18 comments

by sebco
Score 50.0%
Feb 01 2009
Ridiculously stupid, yet rather creative. - Mar 01 2009
Ocean

Gnome Screenshots 2 comments

by kernel-script
Score 50.0%
Dec 07 2008
I love how smooth and simple this is. It reminds me of an old theme I made. - Feb 21 2009
DUST mod by Elfin2 & Gband 0.5

Gnome Screenshots 5 comments

by KYRN
Score 50.0%
Mar 17 2009
What icons are you using? I've noticed the network manager icon is white, as is your volume icon. - Feb 21 2009
gWaei Japanese-English Dictionary

Education Apps 6 comments

by pizzach
Score 58.0%
Jan 02 2013
There are a few readability problems on dark themes.

There was some place that seemed to use a staticly blue hyperlink that's hard to read, but I can't find it anymore.

The most important problem is that the ひらがな reading that comes after the 漢字 is highlighted with a peach color, but you don't assign the text to be black, so on my computer it's grey on peach and very hard to see.

I'm very glad to see someone replace gjiten, that program was getting old. I hope you can iron out these problems, gwaei is a lot more promising. - Jan 11 2009
Overglossed

GTK2 Themes 224 comments

by TheRob
Score 77.8%
Apr 08 2008
This theme is so glossy it makes my head spin :( - Jan 10 2009
Whaaw! Media Player

Video Players 6 comments

by thepizzaking
Score 50.0%
Feb 26 2011
I edited the glade file to reflect the changes I was talking about. Contact me if you're interested in seeing it. - Jan 08 2009
This is a really nice app.
Two things about it though, and one of them is a killer for me. Both should be easy fixes though.

1: The video progress is shown using a progressbar. This is highly distracting while I watch a video, especially with themes that use animated progressbar. Perhaps a GtkScale would be better suited for this.

2: The whole player and the GtkNotebooks in the preferences could use a little padding around them, maybe like 4px or something?

Great app! - Jan 08 2009
Ejecter

System Software 4 comments

by fredp
Score 50.0%
Oct 04 2009
There's one problem. You seem to staticly assign a whitebackground, but not specify black text. I am using a dark theme, so I get grey text on a lite background. Could you please not make the background color white, and just let it pick up on your GTK theme?

Other than that, I really like the simplicity and usability of this app. - Jan 07 2009
Minimum Suite

GTK2 Themes 26 comments

by thibaut28
Score 58.0%
Jan 15 2009
I use Xfce anyway.
I didn't try the theme, sorry. But it's definitely good. (I'm using one I made myself) - Jan 06 2009
This is very nice looking. I actually imagined a theme similar to this recently and then I found this one. It needs a little more contrast for me to be usable, but very good! - Jan 06 2009
GOTCHIONE

GTK2 Themes 50 comments

by escortgoj
Score 65.2%
Jul 18 2012
Erm, sorry. Wrong window. - Jan 06 2009
This is very nice looking. I actually imagined a theme similar to this recently and then I found this one. It needs a little more contrast for me to be usable, but very good! - Jan 06 2009
Japanese Theme Cairo-clock

Cairo Clock 4 comments

by NanoPC
Score 50.0%
Oct 12 2008
すてきなとけいだよ。 - Jan 06 2009
Vorta Conky and Tint

Conky 4 comments

by Kshegzyaj
Score 50.0%
Nov 03 2008
What image display program are you using? - Jan 03 2009
Espresso

GTK2 Themes
by SpecKtacle

Score 72.2%
Feb 03 2011
The Linux Force I

Wallpaper Other
by ruliokam

Score 50.0%
Mar 28 2010
My laptop with KDE 4.1

KDE Plasma Screenshots
by trickykid

Score 50.0%
Mar 28 2010
Silent Night II

GTK2 Themes
by nale12

Score 67.1%
Dec 10 2009
GNOME-colors

Full Icon Themes
by perfectska04

Score 83.5%
Jul 22 2009
Shiki-Colors

GTK2 Themes
by perfectska04

Score 75.8%
Jan 08 2009
Green

GTK2 Themes
by Fhtang

Score 46.0%
3   Jan 17 2012
Neutral

Cursors
by nikaa

Score 74.3%
9   Feb 07 2011
OpenZone

Cursors
by ducakar

Score 84.2%
9   Feb 07 2011
Espresso

GTK2 Themes
by SpecKtacle

Score 72.2%
9   Feb 03 2011
Score 76.2%
9   Dec 24 2010