Hi. El Domingo, 29 de junio de 2014 11:08:40 Marcus Moeller escribió:
Hi.
I'm making a gtk theme for LXDE's LXPanel. I'd like to get some feedback. There is a light and a dark versión. I don't like the dark one a lot, but I know that people like dark stuff.
Screenshots links:
- Light version: http://susepaste.org/45847968
- Dark version: http://susepaste.org/18096996
P.S.: I'm null as designer, so don't LoL a lot, XD.
Could you please provide the theme for us to test?
Sure, but firts I'd like to clarify somethings. You can skin the panel in three ways: - by using a background image: this is very easy, but the background doesn't stretch if you change the panel height, it is repeated vertically. The items in the taskbar (buttons in reality) can't be modified in any way because they use the system theme. I played with this as you can see at http://susepaste.org/30911008. I did two versions (dark and light) with three heights each. This is the form used currently in the distribution. - by using a background color with (fake) opacity. Again you cannot modify the buttons in the task bar, but it is the simplest way. Screenshot here featuring Adwaita and zero opacity: http://susepaste.org/22456843 - by creating a gtk theme: this is what is shown in the images. You can use images for the panel background that stretches when you resize it height, you can customize the taskbar items with pixmaps, etc. The proposed theme only intends to skin the panel, so I use another theme as base (Adwaita) without touching a bit of it. Because the panel uses GTK2, I import Adwaita and add the bits needed only for the panel. The gtk-3.0 folder is a symbolic link to the gtk-3.0 in the original Adwaita theme folder. I don't know is this is even aceptable but I don't know how to inherit from a GTK3 theme. To do this with a GTK2 theme is very easy because you only have to add an "include" in the gtkrc file. One more thing. I use blue for the highlight because it is the color used by Adwaita. Theme's name and license can be whatever fits better with the distribution. Greetings.