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danodymake — MintLiner gtk3 theme
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Published: 2011-05-04 19:00:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 23094; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 6585
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Description
This is the gtk3 (not Gnome shell theme) theme for Gnome 3. I originally made this theme inspired by the theme of Minty Freshness(earlier version) for LMDE. This theme was originally based on adwaita engine (Gnome 3.01). It is now based on unico engine 1.0.1. Old theme for Gnome 3.01 (Fedora 15 and others) is present in a package called MintLiner_old. The theme for Gnome 3.2 (based on adwaita engine) has been identified as MintLiner_experiment. I do not guarantee it will work properly. The new theme (unico engine) is now present and contains gtk2 part, which is actually Clearlook gtk2 theme.This theme contains the metacity theme (not mutter) of Minty Freshness theme.
Tested on Ubuntu 11.10(Gnome 3.2) - new theme, Fedora 15 and Gnome Live CD OpenSuse(Gnome 3.01 ver.) - old theme.
License: GPL
Installation process:
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* Extract this package
* Copy the contents(with root privileges) of the package in the location /usr/share/themes/ or /.themes/ in the home directory .
* Install latest Gnome Tweak Tool to change the gtk theme.
* (Old theme)If you want to change the look of the Nautilus 3, copy the file nautilus.css(with root privileges) in the location /usr/share/nautilus/.
Before this make a backup of this file original nautilus.css. - I'm not sure whether this is a good way to change the appearance of Nautilus,
and will it give long life, but in addition to any other theme you must return the original nautilus.css.
The new theme does not require this step.
Known issues:
- (Fixed*) Ubuntu 11.10 Fallback mode. The main menu on the gnome panel not themed properly, menubar is round and incomplete.
- Some other elements have a white inner edges. This is due to the Button display
- There may be some bugs becouse of gtk engine updates over time.
22.04.2011
Start creating a GTK theme that is not boring and gray as Adwaita. I started to make the theme Skyliner. Theme does not look bad.
25.04.2011
Soon I decided to make a theme for Linux Mint (like Minty Freshness). So I left the theme SkyLiner.
28.04.2011
I found a way to modify the look of the Nautilus 3 (at least slightly more). I hope there is a better way than this, but for now this is it.
03.05.2011
I think that this theme can be useful. I'm not sure, but I think that Adwaita engine has some limitations. For example, menubar.menuitem,
expander, active tabs and couple other things can't be represented by picture or by using the Gradients.
This is under construction. If someone has more knowledge about this please feel free to let comments.
01.10.2011
Well, I didn't come some time on deviant. A lot of things have changed.
05.10.2011
Using Ubuntu 11.10 I realized that adwaita engine upgraded, so MintLiner theme no longer works properly. MintLiner theme works fine on Fedora 15 and Gnome 3.01 (including OpenSuse), but not in Ubuntu 11.10. Therefore, I must rewrite the whole theme to some time soon as possible.
17.10.2011
Currently I'm leaving Adwaita engine. The reason for this is some "instability" in certain elements of the theme (the edges of buttons, menus, etc. are not displayed correctly - despite of a good code). Perhaps it comes to some bugs, but it does not suit me more certain limitations on this engine. That's why I switched to the Unico engine. Unico engine is present in Ubuntu 11.10 and Fedora 16.
18.10.2011
The new theme is quite different from the old version.
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Comments: 24
i just rediscovered this theme, and man, its one of the best!
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Nice. How did you change the search border colour?
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Maybe you think the Nautilus 3.xx search border color? I explained taht in the message above. You must copy nautilus.css (in Terminal - as root) to /usr/share/nautilus/. Before that save somewhere original nautilus.css. I'm not sure that this is necessary in Gnome 3.2 ver. because this theme has been built up in the time of Gnome 3.0.1 ver.
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You do know that you can add it to the gtk-widgets.css don't you? Just add the line:
@import url("nautilus.css");
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Very nice work, here is a screenie of your theme in use.
Screenshot Link: [link]
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now if only it took effect in firefox it would be perfect!~
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Awesome!!! I thought "Hey, why not go back to Mint?" for a second, but still Arch wins
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First, thanks for this nice theme
Also, it would not show up in gnome-tweak-tools for me until I added a emtpy gtk-2.0 folder in the theme folder.
Thanks to IllusionX too, your directions worked for me.
I would love to know if the gtk2 support will come soon? I added some gtk2 junk from another theme that is minty like and it sort of works.
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I have not visited the deviant site for some time. I'm not sure whether I'll continue with this theme. Now is available unico engine in Ubuntu 11.10 and elementary OS 0.2. It seems that LMDE 201109 use this theme for gtk-3 applications, but there is no adwaita engine installed. I will probably see about gtk-2 ver.
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First, thanks for this nice theme
Also, it would not show up in gnome-tweak-tools for me until I added a emtpy gtk-2.0 folder in the theme folder.
Thanks to IllusionX too, your directions worked for me.
I would love to know if the gtk2 support will come soon? I added some gtk2 junk from another theme that is minty like and it sort of works.
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Theme is nice.
I'd like a different gradient for the toolbar, though...
like this one I made, but with mint green: [link]
I sadly agree on Adwaita limitations, i experienced them.
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The theme is beautiful. Adwaita has limitations, but Clearlook engine seems to be not (menus, tabs, etc. can be realized better). Clearlook however, has some other limitations. Good luck
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I have not yet tested the Gnome tweak tool but I think you need open gconftool-2 and in the /desktop/gnome/shell/windows/theme set "MintLiner". This is for Gnome-shell session.
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For some reason it does not show up in my gnome-tweak-tool, though it does find the window
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i'm not too into gtk but if you copy nautilus.css into gtk-3.0 and put this:
@import url("nautilus.css");
inside gtk-widget.css you solve the nautilus thing.
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I tried but it did not work. I do not know why. I will need more time for this. Does it work for you?
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