[opensuse-factory] Origami and Geeko themes
Hi, I have been working on openSUSE branding for the past few months, and in the process, I have found there was something missing. I booted my trusty old 11.3 DVD with GNOME on top and it hit me. GNOME had an awesome green theme, so green it basically leaked out from both sides of the window, and I knew what I had to do. I downloaded Arc (it has a really nice layout) and made a quick script to get all the colours out of it and started comparing it to the theme, a few nights passed and I had it done. I took some hints from the community, on Discord and on Reddit to see what's up with that, and feedback was generally positive. Modified the CSS a little because some things like fonts needed attention, the top bar on GNOME didn't have dynamic transparency, which is a great feature used too rarely. I also made sure it looked nice on XFCE, which I truly love. Thus, Geeko was born, for GTK based DEs with my love to openSUSE. https://github.com/LelCP/geeko-gtk-theme https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:common:Factory/geeko-gtk-theme Then came a realization. Icons are as an important part of the theme as everything else -- that needed attention too. I really liked some older icons still preserved in Papirus-KDE hanging in OBS since 2016, from which was adopted some of those with the rest of icons from newer versions of Papirus and the Origami icon theme was born too, for KDE and GTK-based DEs with the same love. With __full__ support for YaST (although keep in mind that YaST doesn't support SVG icons so those has to be png first). https://github.com/LelCP/origami-icon-theme https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:common:Factory/origami-icon-them... Both projects can coexist in a way which is beneficial to both of these base projects and vice versa. Most tweaks to Arc will work on Geeko and most tweaks to Geeko will work on Arc, the same with Origami and Papirus. In case of momentous messes such as new versions of GTK that will most likely break everything, whichever project manages to fix issues first can be used as a patch to another one without a problem, which usually happens between stable versions like 3.25 and 3.27, never landing on Tumbleweed, so it can be fixed beforehand (as such the only thing I can give KDE credit for in the case of theming, is it doesn't break so much as GTK). Now is a great time to finally get them in Factory. My goals, of course, would be to make them the default themes on both Leap 15 and Tumbleweed, but considering the nature of, especially Tumbleweed, that might be hard to achieve. I think at least giving people the option to switch themes right from the get-go would be nice. Adwaita and XFCE themes are not cutting it for me, as well for a lot of people, as the theming community showed us already with how popular some themes are. Quoting Richard: "Makes me want to run XFCE for the looks... which is not something I've said since like 2001" (It was most likely about the new splash screen, not exactly this but whatever) LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
El 2018-01-17 15:13, Stasiek escribió:
Hi,
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Supercool stuff.
Now is a great time to finally get them in Factory. My goals, of course, would be to make them the default themes on both Leap 15 and Tumbleweed,
I would say you should then raise awareness about this in the opensuse-artwork mailing list, were, in theory, such stuff is decided. https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-artwork/ Congratulations for a great work! Cheers. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Now is a great time to finally get them in Factory. My goals, of course, would be to make them the default themes on both Leap 15 and Tumbleweed,
I would say you should then raise awareness about this in the opensuse-artwork mailing list, were, in theory, such stuff is decided. https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-artwork/
I did do that https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-artwork/2017-12/msg00000.html And then it was radio silence from anyone but Ludwig. I would say that I would post to opensuse-project, but first I think getting package into Factory is more important for wider testing and feedback ;)
Congratulations for a great work!
Thanks :D LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
El 2018-01-17 15:50, Stasiek escribió:
Now is a great time to finally get them in Factory. My goals, of course, would be to make them the default themes on both Leap 15 and Tumbleweed,
I would say you should then raise awareness about this in the opensuse-artwork mailing list, were, in theory, such stuff is decided. https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-artwork/
I did do that https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-artwork/2017-12/msg00000.html And then it was radio silence from anyone but Ludwig. I would say that I would post to opensuse-project, but first I think getting package into Factory is more important for wider testing and feedback ;)
Oh sorry. The "search page" string in the title fooled me. Cheers. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Hi, It is very nice theme. On 2018-01-18 00:13, Stasiek wrote:
Hi,
Then came a realization. Icons are as an important part of the theme as everything else -- that needed attention too. I really liked some older icons still preserved in Papirus-KDE hanging in OBS since 2016, from which was adopted some of those with the rest of icons from newer versions of Papirus and the Origami icon theme was born too, for KDE and GTK-based DEs with the same love. With __full__ support for YaST (although keep in mind that YaST doesn't support SVG icons so those has to be png first).
You mean that repo https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home%3Akill_it/papirus-icon-theme-kd... ? I knew that I had to keep them there:)
... (as such the only thing I can give KDE credit for in the case of theming, is it doesn't break so much as GTK).
BTW it means, that no chances for Qt style? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Hi,
It is very nice theme.
Thank you :D
Then came a realization. Icons are as an important part of the theme as everything else -- that needed attention too. I really liked some older icons still preserved in Papirus-KDE hanging in OBS since 2016, from which was adopted some of those with the rest of icons from newer versions of Papirus and the Origami icon theme was born too, for KDE and GTK-based DEs with the same love. With full support for YaST (although keep in mind that YaST doesn't support SVG icons so those has to be png first).
You mean that repo https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home%3Akill_it/papirus-icon-theme-kd... ? I knew that I had to keep them there:)
Yes, I did use that, unfortunately Papirus Team removed this repo some time ago now so this was excellent place to grab backup ;)
... (as such the only thing I can give KDE credit for in the case of theming, is it doesn't break so much as GTK).
BTW it means, that no chances for Qt style?
Of course there is a chance, why wouldn't there be? https://github.com/LelCP/geeko-kde-theme (I made that repo 3 minutes ago, it's almost empty I know) Problem is, considering how much of my work is Gnome-critical (mainly because of sub-par support for graphics tablets on KDE), I have to spend a lot of time there instead. I do care about KDE, but I don't really use it or understand it so I'm looking at it from really GNOME kind of perspective, which is why I encourage taking part in development of this as much as I can. LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Hi, These look great, I should apologize I read the artwork email sometime over my christmas break but didn't get to a reply. One thing to maybe consider is the Navy blue on the wallpaper clashes a bit with the gray, maybe if the wallpaper had a gray background instead of a blue one or if the gray parts had a tinge of blue. Maybe something like this would work better as a wallpaper, I didn't have your exact theme so I took a quick guess on the gray. Also the link will expire in 6 days https://paste.opensuse.org/23514276 I look forward to working on something based off this idea for enlightenment Cheers Simon On 18/01/18 00:43, Stasiek wrote:
Hi,
I have been working on openSUSE branding for the past few months, and in the process, I have found there was something missing. I booted my trusty old 11.3 DVD with GNOME on top and it hit me. GNOME had an awesome green theme, so green it basically leaked out from both sides of the window, and I knew what I had to do.
I downloaded Arc (it has a really nice layout) and made a quick script to get all the colours out of it and started comparing it to the theme, a few nights passed and I had it done. I took some hints from the community, on Discord and on Reddit to see what's up with that, and feedback was generally positive. Modified the CSS a little because some things like fonts needed attention, the top bar on GNOME didn't have dynamic transparency, which is a great feature used too rarely. I also made sure it looked nice on XFCE, which I truly love. Thus, Geeko was born, for GTK based DEs with my love to openSUSE.
https://github.com/LelCP/geeko-gtk-theme https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:common:Factory/geeko-gtk-theme
Then came a realization. Icons are as an important part of the theme as everything else -- that needed attention too. I really liked some older icons still preserved in Papirus-KDE hanging in OBS since 2016, from which was adopted some of those with the rest of icons from newer versions of Papirus and the Origami icon theme was born too, for KDE and GTK-based DEs with the same love. With __full__ support for YaST (although keep in mind that YaST doesn't support SVG icons so those has to be png first).
https://github.com/LelCP/origami-icon-theme https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:common:Factory/origami-icon-them...
Both projects can coexist in a way which is beneficial to both of these base projects and vice versa. Most tweaks to Arc will work on Geeko and most tweaks to Geeko will work on Arc, the same with Origami and Papirus. In case of momentous messes such as new versions of GTK that will most likely break everything, whichever project manages to fix issues first can be used as a patch to another one without a problem, which usually happens between stable versions like 3.25 and 3.27, never landing on Tumbleweed, so it can be fixed beforehand (as such the only thing I can give KDE credit for in the case of theming, is it doesn't break so much as GTK).
Now is a great time to finally get them in Factory. My goals, of course, would be to make them the default themes on both Leap 15 and Tumbleweed, but considering the nature of, especially Tumbleweed, that might be hard to achieve. I think at least giving people the option to switch themes right from the get-go would be nice. Adwaita and XFCE themes are not cutting it for me, as well for a lot of people, as the theming community showed us already with how popular some themes are.
Quoting Richard: "Makes me want to run XFCE for the looks... which is not something I've said since like 2001" (It was most likely about the new splash screen, not exactly this but whatever)
LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world
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Hi,
One thing to maybe consider is the Navy blue on the wallpaper clashes a bit with the gray, maybe if the wallpaper had a gray background instead of a blue one or if the gray parts had a tinge of blue.
Maybe something like this would work better as a wallpaper, I didn't have your exact theme so I took a quick guess on the gray. Also the link will expire in 6 days https://paste.opensuse.org/23514276
Considering I have to get it to work on both green and blue backgrounds, as Leap and Tumbleweed already have different colours for wallpapers: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openSUSE/branding/leap-15/raw-theme-drop/d... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openSUSE/branding/tumbleweed/raw-theme-dro... and that wallpapers are not my job in that case ;) Grey being slightly off on navy blue is not something that I missed, I experimented a lot with both variants and different wallapapers and that one was the least clashing in that case. Just as an example, look at very similar color scheme, solarized. It uses lighter background tones for content, and isn't compatible with anything but itself, so Leap would have to be much more similar to Tumbleweed, and theme would hardly work with anything but default wallpapers.
I look forward to working on something based off this idea for enlightenment
Oh, sounds amazing, can't wait to see it :D LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On 18/01/18 21:55, Stasiek wrote:
Hi,
One thing to maybe consider is the Navy blue on the wallpaper clashes a bit with the gray, maybe if the wallpaper had a gray background instead of a blue one or if the gray parts had a tinge of blue.
Maybe something like this would work better as a wallpaper, I didn't have your exact theme so I took a quick guess on the gray. Also the link will expire in 6 days https://paste.opensuse.org/23514276
Considering I have to get it to work on both green and blue backgrounds, as Leap and Tumbleweed already have different colours for wallpapers: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openSUSE/branding/leap-15/raw-theme-drop/d... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openSUSE/branding/tumbleweed/raw-theme-dro... and that wallpapers are not my job in that case ;)
Ahh that makes life slightly harder then :-) -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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