[lubuntu-users] Does a default Lubuntu dark theme exist?

[Andre Campos Rodovalho]

Qt migration is a huge job!
As a user, I would like to thank you guys for all effort...
Hope Lubuntu continue to evolve, and also the team to get bigger!



2016-08-30 16:06 GMT-03:00 Rafael Laguna <RafaelLaguna at rafaellaguna.net>:

> Yes, Simon, the dark-ish theme is deprecated now for several reasons.
> We tried shipping a dark panel theme with light windows and (inverted)
> white icons. But there were some problems with it:
>
> - the theme needed too many updates, and we don't have the resources
> Ubuntu has for maintaining both themes
>
> - after several GTK & app icons updates, some glyphs had to be
> constantly re-written (specially the system tray ones) and we can't,
> obviously, cover the entire app ecosystem (every theme out there lacks
> some app icons)
>
> - LXDE is constantly changing and evolving and that's a problem for us,
> the artwork people. See, for example, the language applet. At first we
> used a single applet icon for it, then the flags appeared and we needed
> to make 164 new glyphs for every language and resolution (keep in mind
> having to duplicate all of them in white colour), and then we changed
> to Fcitex, all that work is useless now (again, more icons)
>
> That's why Lubuntu theme (the only one) is the only pre-installed,
> depending on Gnome icons (they keep those glyphs updated so we can
> focus on apps) and same with GTK. Also, a distro usually uses just one
> theme, that visually identifies the system, and it can't be the perfect
> match for every user. And that's where Linux tops over other OSes,
> letting you to customise at any level.
>
> Anyway, if you want to get back the semi-dark theme, you can grab the
> GTK [1] and icon [2] themes (I released them to allow any user to
> continue or fork them), or even download new ones from Gnome-Look [3].
> Sorry if this isn't what you expected to hear, but we're doing a big
> effort to keep the Lubuntu overall looking nice, specially now we're
> porting everything to Qt, using a new syntax, new apps new controls and
> almost re-doing it from scratch.
>
> Thanks for understanding.
>
> [1] https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1013337
> [2] https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1011980
> [3] https://www.gnome-look.org/search?projectSearchText=lubuntu
>
> On sön, 2016-08-28 at 17:15 -0500, Simon Quigley wrote:
> > Adding Rafael Laguna, our artwork guy.
> >
> > I would personally love a dark theme, but from what I remember, that
> > is
> > a thing of the past. Could you explain, Rafael?
> >
> > On 08/28/2016 05:07 PM, scrooyahoo at riseup.net wrote:
> >
> > > I'm playing a bit with the themes and icons and i can't really find
> > > a
> > > nice dark theme. That also has themed the grey window borders.
> > >
> > > Lubuntu-dark-panel isn't exactly dark.
> > >
> > > I now have dark panel configured with the natura color theme and
> > > that
> > > has a nice feel to it though the grey is still keeping it very
> > > bright.
> > >
> > > And if i manually change the colors how do i then save the theme so
> > > that
> > > i can share my config?
> > > I mean where should the theme be saved?  When i press the "create a
> > > theme archive .obt" button it wants me to select a directory where
> > > to
> > > store it, why doesn't is in point already to the directory? What
> > > directory should that be?  Whatever location i choose, it does not
> > > accept my choice.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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