[ubuntu-art] murrine in intrepid

[Kenneth Wimer]

Hi Conn,

On Friday 30 May 2008 00:29:07 Conn wrote:
> Ken,
>
> Here's my first attempt at modifying the new theme. Screenshot and
> gtkrc attached.
>
> Some of the changes (I don't remember them all):
> 1. Readded toolbar and menubar separators
> 2. Darkened menubar to 90% of background
> 3. Darkened "active" notebook tabs
> 4. Darkened menu background to 90% of background
> 5. Changed base colour to something closer to the dark brown background
> 6. Changed radio and checkbar colour to display as white, and
> highlight to base colour
> 7. Removed old hack to "fix" metacity's colour (i.e. the mix
> statements I put in the code after finding the Gnome Appearances bug).
> I assume the metacity theme will change drastically, so it's best to
> remove the hack to avoid future confusion.
> 8. Selected items in menus now display white text
> 9. Added new murrine engine parameters "colorize_scrollbar" and
> "sliderstyle", and enabled both. I removed depreciated
> "scrollbar_color", and note that the engine is warning us that
> "hilight_ratio" is deprecated, so we may need to remove those lines
> later.
> 10. Changed selected item text to white
> 11. Probably more things I forgot...

I agree with pretty much everything you say :-) I began hacking on the gtk 
color definitions last night as well. One of the challenges is going to be 
creating work arounds for dark color themeing bugs in specific apps.

> Some observations for the future:
> 1. Perhaps we need to change the orange colour, perhaps it would be
> better to be darkened.
> 2. I set the nautilus-location colour simply to @selected_bg_color.
> For Human-Murrine I used a mix statement to lighten the orange a
> little so that it blended better with murrine's glaze, but it won't
> work well with the new colourscheme. We can change this later,
> especially after any changes to the selected background (i.e. orange)
> colour.

The bright orange seems out of place on a dark background. I think we would be 
better off going with something less contrasty. 

> 3. Of course, the metacity theme doesn't look very nice anymore. I
> suggest we adopt a similar theme to UbuntuStudio, but use a darker
> brown rather than black. Oh, we could arrange it so that the inactive
> window is 90% shaded to the background colour, so it will blend with
> the darkened menubar - that would be a nice effect.
>
> That's all I can think of for now!
> Conn

--
Ken