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

[Israel]

+1
I look forward to LXQt being the default experience one day soon :)
On 08/30/2016 04:40 PM, Andre Campos Rodovalho wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>     <https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1013337>
>     [2] https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1011980
>     <https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1011980>
>     [3] https://www.gnome-look.org/search?projectSearchText=lubuntu
>     <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
>     <mailto: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.
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     >
>     --
>     Rafael Laguna
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>     <http://www.rafaellaguna.net>
>     Lubuntu Artwork Team · Ubuntu Design Team
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