Kickstart 1.2

Metacity Themes

Source i (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work):

Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net

2
Become a Fan
5.0

Description:
Yeah I know, this is waaay too retro. Anyway, for those crazy old Amiga-lovers like me, here's a faithful remake of the old WB 1.2/1.3 window look.

To make this look like the original put this into your terminal:

gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "close:minimize,maximize"

And to return back to the defaults:

gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"

I recommend using a Topaz font you can download here:
http://www.asciiarena.com/apps/t!s-af10.zip


Have fun!

Ratings & Comments

8 Comments

Padster

i new Digital was based on amiga, but this is very similar. my Digital theme: [urlhttp://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Digital?content=127764[/url] and an icon set i'm working on: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Retro+Pixel?content=128550

Padster

corrections: *knew http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Digital?content=127764 sorry about double post, back arrow re-posted.

Padster

i new Digital was based on amiga, but this is very similar. my Digital theme: [urlhttp://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Digital?content=127764[/url] and an icon set i'm working on: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Retro+Pixel?content=128550

barthel

At one time I owned the A1000, A500, and A2000. I put together a quick and dirty index.theme to combine your GTK and metacity themes. It also takes care of the button arrangement so you don't have to mess with gconf. <-- Begin index.theme --> [Desktop Entry] Type=X-GNOME-Metatheme Name=Kickstart1.2 Comment=Amiga Kickstart 1.2 theme Encoding=UTF-8 [X-GNOME-Metatheme] GtkTheme=Kickstart1.2 MetacityTheme=Kickstart1.2 IconTheme=Humanity-Dark CursorTheme=redglass ButtonLayout=close:minimize,maximize <-- End index.theme --> Naturally, we need to replace the icon set, but the rest works beautifully. I haven't tried the Topaz font yet only because I'm using UTF8 and its readme strongly suggests ISO-8859-1/15.

mi-cha

Thanks for your comment! I still own my beloved A500 bought in 1987, and still running happily! Thanks for the trick with index.theme, I had no idea you could put button order in there. Yeah, the font looks nice, but I have no clue about that messed up codepage stuff. I tried to fix the font with fontforge, but just produced even more messed up files. Really sorry, I have no time at the moment to work on these things any more, having to care for my little son...

jstokes

Looking real good !!!

rafaellaguna

It's never enough retro! Great job!! Downloading right now...

mld

Thanks

Pling
0 Affiliates
Details
license
version v33.46
updated
added
downloads 24h 0
mediaviews 24h 0
pageviews 24h 1

Other Metacity Themes:

Reconstruction
jmariani
last update date: 17 years ago

Score 5.0

Naruto (SJR GN)
sakjur
last update date: 17 years ago

Score 5.0

ElemWinME
TheStarLion
last update date: 15 years ago

Score 5.0

Seven
Inflaton
last update date: 15 years ago

Score 4.4

trébo
BookeldOr42
last update date: 20 years ago

Score 5.0

Rainbow
Missoire
last update date: 18 years ago

Score 5.0



System Tags

Metacity

Metacity was the default window manager used by the GNOME 2 desktop environment until it was replaced by Mutter in GNOME 3.  Wikipedia