I decided to use this theme on my current lucid desktop, but then I was really surprised. Instead of the tar.gz I was only able to download the Screenshot file. Fortunately I had an older version on deviantart.com. I decided to download the old one and continue developing it. As a result I am now using a different and new style and some of the new murrine options.
I hope you like it now. Tell me what you dont like instead of rating it down.
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Requires gtk2-engines-murrine version 0.90.3-git20100323 at least
I suggest that you extract the archive to "/usr/share/themes/"
The Font inside the Archive has to be extracted in your distros font folder.
The Panel-background has to be selected by the gnome-panel settings dialogue
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I love muscle cars, and the Plymouth Cuda also has a beautiful name. This Theme looks a little bit like a Shiki-Modification, but it's based on the Human-Theme in ubuntu and it uses a Mod of the Dust-Metacity. If you prefer the Sugar-Metacity, then you schould have a look on this site:
If you don't like it, tell me why before you rate it bad.Last changelog:
* I took care of some suggested improvements, but I was unable to turn every one into reality.
* I have fixed some Checkbox issues, once again.
* Menu-Checkbox corrected, another scrollbarstyle, another toolbar
* restarted from an old version and added some new things.
* another scrollbarstyle
* murrine git version options added - new dark toolbar and light toolbar
* created the best looking toolbar, I have ever made - and without any pixmaps ;-). Added a dark Gradient to the menubar.
* further little changes and a black nautilus toolbar. No problems with firefox and thunderbird, because of a white menubar
* the glossy effects are more heavier now, inclusive the scrollbar. Changes to the panel buttons. added simple Line to the code to modify the menubar firefox-friendly (!!! Not enabled !!!)
* more, not too heavy, glossy effects ;-)
* another titlebar for the metacity, another Button-look.
* new metacity - have a look at the second screenshot, which shows the perfect match with the DUST-Theme. ....and some minor changes to the gtk-theme. (ICON-THEME DUST!!!)
* updated index.theme file, readable firefox menubar text, evolution-mail toolbar fixes and a more purple selected color
* removed pixmaps and green default color, it's RUSTY now
* added the striped progressbar with pixmaps
* removed the grunge style, because it does not look good with the glossy panel-style
* something more is new ;-) especially the panel.png and the metacity give a grunge experience.
* new Metacity, new buttons, new progressbar, new scale, new menubar (Firefox/Thunderbird MenuItems are dark and not readable), new colors, new nautilus sidebar, almost everything is new
* using some murrine settings from "Dust"-Theme and a more good looking scrollbar
* removed the special menubarstyle and using workarounds from Shiki-Colors for a better appearence.
* special menubarstyle for Openoffice.org and Firefox
* Menubar Text is can now being read easier
* removed false settings and the panel has the same color as the Window-Frame now.
Thumbs up. You might want to consider dark menus for this theme. The white menu seems kind of odd.
Other than that might I suggest "Neotech Regular 8" as your sys font it looks better on this theme.
Great effort.
I didn't found Neotech font for free download - I always had to purchase it.
If you have a download link, I will try it.
Besides that, I have used the Font "Fontin" as it looks like the font which is used in the PS3 game Uncharted 2. I always had its concept art in mind when creating this theme.
It's a nice theme, but there are some things wrong with it. Mind if I critize? If these things were fixed it would be my default theme.
1. The menu doesn't match with the panel; the words "Place" and "System" are unreadable.
2. The area under the window border should match the window border itself. There should be a seemless transition between them.
3. When in Nautilus the left-hand side of the window is completely purple. It shoud be the same as the rest.
1. I don't understand how this happens ! Applications is readable, but Places and System not. Maybe the panels transparency configuration is the reason.
2. Do you mean the bottom line of the metacity-theme? If it's so, I have fixed it!
3. I didn't understand what exactly you have been talking about, so I changed the nautilus-sidebar to the background color.
I hope the current update (19 July 2010) is to your liking!
I think you really like my artwork, ;-)
Btw. disgusting colors depend on the wallpaper, which is used. E.g. the elementary gtk: I am of the opinion that it only looks good, if a blue, minimalistic wallpaper is used, if not it looks disgusting.
Furthermore, the colors fit very well for the Rusty style.
Now I have removed the userChrome.css as it doesn't work, but the firefox menubar has a light glow, in order to make the text readable.
Please post problems with Thunderbird!
To solve the Firefox problem, simply add these lines "menubar > menu {color: white !important}" (without "") to the userChrome.css,it works perfectly!;)
Insert that string into userChrome.css and put it in the firefox folder-------->
.mozilla/firefox-3.5/.....default/chrome/
or
.mozilla/firefox/.....default/chrome/
PS:Just use your old userChrome.css and insert the new strings I posted.
---->menubar > menu {color: white !important}
Ok Thanks, now it works, using another userChrome.css, because I have already deleated the old one. Together with an update I am going to release the userChrome.css
Yes, you're right, the theme has a false name - thx to tell me, but I don't want to update the theme just because of the missing "Hemi" or "Barra"-Cuda. If I'll have updates for the theme, the Name will be changed, I promise!
Well, stripes. They would need to be drawn via the pixbuf-engine or something like that, but I don't like it to use pixmaps, because they make the theme slow, not much, but it does. If you will be satisfied with the cell-look, supported by the murrine-engine, I'll update the theme with this change.
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Thumbs up. You might want to consider dark menus for this theme. The white menu seems kind of odd. Other than that might I suggest "Neotech Regular 8" as your sys font it looks better on this theme. Great effort.
I didn't found Neotech font for free download - I always had to purchase it. If you have a download link, I will try it. Besides that, I have used the Font "Fontin" as it looks like the font which is used in the PS3 game Uncharted 2. I always had its concept art in mind when creating this theme.
It's a nice theme, but there are some things wrong with it. Mind if I critize? If these things were fixed it would be my default theme. 1. The menu doesn't match with the panel; the words "Place" and "System" are unreadable. 2. The area under the window border should match the window border itself. There should be a seemless transition between them. 3. When in Nautilus the left-hand side of the window is completely purple. It shoud be the same as the rest.
1. I don't understand how this happens ! Applications is readable, but Places and System not. Maybe the panels transparency configuration is the reason. 2. Do you mean the bottom line of the metacity-theme? If it's so, I have fixed it! 3. I didn't understand what exactly you have been talking about, so I changed the nautilus-sidebar to the background color. I hope the current update (19 July 2010) is to your liking!
I didn't notice that the theme was alittle old until after I posted my comment. Thanks for still improving it, the theme looks really good.
disgusting colors.
I think you really like my artwork, ;-) Btw. disgusting colors depend on the wallpaper, which is used. E.g. the elementary gtk: I am of the opinion that it only looks good, if a blue, minimalistic wallpaper is used, if not it looks disgusting. Furthermore, the colors fit very well for the Rusty style.
Would you like to have a version without the dark panel? Should I give the Menu Items a more glassy look'n'feel?
I like the new color scheme!:) Good job!
EDIT: userChrome.css seems not to work....
Now I have removed the userChrome.css as it doesn't work, but the firefox menubar has a light glow, in order to make the text readable. Please post problems with Thunderbird!
To solve the Firefox problem, simply add these lines "menubar > menu {color: white !important}" (without "") to the userChrome.css,it works perfectly!;)
It does not work. Do I have to do anything else? Is the folder "gtk-2.0" the right one?
Insert that string into userChrome.css and put it in the firefox folder--------> .mozilla/firefox-3.5/.....default/chrome/ or .mozilla/firefox/.....default/chrome/ PS:Just use your old userChrome.css and insert the new strings I posted. ---->menubar > menu {color: white !important}
Ok Thanks, now it works, using another userChrome.css, because I have already deleated the old one. Together with an update I am going to release the userChrome.css
Nice Car.... Green....
I think you mean the Plymouth Hemi'Cuda? I don't think a Cuda existed without one...
Yes, you're right, the theme has a false name - thx to tell me, but I don't want to update the theme just because of the missing "Hemi" or "Barra"-Cuda. If I'll have updates for the theme, the Name will be changed, I promise!
This is a cool theme. What it's aching for is a progress bar that matches that dashed stripe down the side of the car.
Well, stripes. They would need to be drawn via the pixbuf-engine or something like that, but I don't like it to use pixmaps, because they make the theme slow, not much, but it does. If you will be satisfied with the cell-look, supported by the murrine-engine, I'll update the theme with this change.