[ubuntu-art] Dust theme implementation

Kido Mariano greasedbolt at gmail.com
Sat Aug 23 15:50:31 BST 2008


On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 17:30 +0300, Peter Petrov wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Kido Mariano <greasedbolt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         > > I *tried* to implement the Dust theme using one of my
>         other themes
>         > as
>         > > base. Try it out:
>         > >
>         > > http://www.geocities.com/kid_orig/themer/Dust-0.tar.gz
>         > > (requires Aurora engine installed)
>         > >
>         > > It's still a bit far from the mockup, and some apps have
>         problems (most
>         > > notably Firefox, due to quirks in the Aurora engine).
>         Anyone care to
>         > > help?
>         >
>         
>         
>         I've updated the theme, taking most of your comments into
>         consideration.
>         The download link is still the same.
>         Here's a screenshot:
>         http://www.geocities.com/kid_orig/themer/Screenshot.png
> 
> 
> This looks great, but is the dependence on the Aurora engine really
> necessary? It's not in Ubuntu's repositories, and is unlikely to be
> added, which will prevent your theme from being included (if not
> default). Can it be reimplemented with Murrine SVN and/or Clearlooks
> instead?
> 
I'm well aware of this. Aurora isn't my engine of choice, either (though
it does look pretty :D), but I'd like to make it look really close to
the mockup before we start deviating. If I get some time again I'll try
to do this in Clearlooks/Murrine.




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