Description: Staring down all the time at my aluminium keyboard of my Imac I can not help noticing that it is a brilliant - yet simple- design.
As a gnome-desktopthemer I decided to try to make a GTK and Emerald theme based on this keyboard....
It is something refreshingly new to look at. So give it a try! Please try before you rate. Comments are welcome...
In the AluChrystalpack (untar it twice !!!) you will find an GTK-theme, an emerald theme and the desktopbackground. There is no metacity theme included. To install:
After you have extracted the downloaded file twice (yes twice!) you will have a file. Within that file you have the AluChrystalGTKtheme.targz. Drag and drop that into the system/preferences/appearance -window. Then select the theme. The emerald theme needs to be 'imported' by the emerald-theme manager (use synaptic to install this application if you do not have it yet.)
Changelog:
Corrected some errors like 'Missing GTK-engine' in Ubuntu Intrepid
I can install this theme just fine on my Intrepid install, but when I run emerald from the command line I get this set of errors:
/home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:465: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "Buttons/button-default.png"
/home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:470: Background image options specified without filename
/home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1905: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "Buttons/button-default.png"
/home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1908: Background image options specified without filename
The theme is enabled, but as soon as I close the terminal with the error message all of the emerald supplied pieces of the window decoration disappear (they don't revert to something else--they're just gone!). Is something missing here? Or am I misunderstanding something? I've never used emerald before.
Thanks
I can install this theme just fine on my Intrepid install, but when I run emerald from the command line I get this set of errors:
/home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:465: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "Buttons/button-default.png"
/home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:470: Background image options specified without filename
/home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1905: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "Buttons/button-default.png"
/home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1908: Background image options specified without filename
The theme is enabled, but as soon as I close the terminal with the error message all of the emerald supplied pieces of the window decoration disappear (they don't revert to something else--they're just gone!). Is something missing here? Or am I misunderstanding something? I've never used emerald before.
Thanks
Really nice work!
Is there any way to change the default application text colour from gray to black? The gray probably fits the theme better but gives me a bit of eye strain in open office.
Thanks!
After you have extracted the downloaded file twice (yes twice!) you will have a file. Within that file you have the AluChrystalGTKtheme.targz. Drag and drop that into the system/preferences/appearance -window. Then select the theme.
The emerald theme needs to be 'imported' by the emerald-theme manager (use synaptic to install this application if you do not have it yet.)
Hi there.
Problem: I'm half way to finish my installation: everything looks OK, except the top bars... I got a warning saying
the gtk+ library is not installed. I installed a lot of libs (Pango, glib,...)
but I just couldn't manage the J2000 (libjasper) - looks like everything is OK but configure gives me the same error...
Any ideas ?
Are you using an Emerald or Metacity theme for your window decorator? I use Compiz with Emerald and am having troulbe getting the metacity windeco to work properly. Thanks for a great theme!!!
just wanna add, that some bottons on some apps need to be updated, that concerns xchat and Nvidia server settings.
kind regards MikeDK be back with a screen
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I can install this theme just fine on my Intrepid install, but when I run emerald from the command line I get this set of errors: /home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:465: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "Buttons/button-default.png" /home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:470: Background image options specified without filename /home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1905: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "Buttons/button-default.png" /home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1908: Background image options specified without filename The theme is enabled, but as soon as I close the terminal with the error message all of the emerald supplied pieces of the window decoration disappear (they don't revert to something else--they're just gone!). Is something missing here? Or am I misunderstanding something? I've never used emerald before. Thanks
I can install this theme just fine on my Intrepid install, but when I run emerald from the command line I get this set of errors: /home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:465: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "Buttons/button-default.png" /home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:470: Background image options specified without filename /home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1905: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "Buttons/button-default.png" /home/ian/.themes/AluChrystalGTKTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1908: Background image options specified without filename The theme is enabled, but as soon as I close the terminal with the error message all of the emerald supplied pieces of the window decoration disappear (they don't revert to something else--they're just gone!). Is something missing here? Or am I misunderstanding something? I've never used emerald before. Thanks
Really nice work! Is there any way to change the default application text colour from gray to black? The gray probably fits the theme better but gives me a bit of eye strain in open office. Thanks!
Great theme, easy install. Kudos on the great work!
I like very much this theme and thank you for your effort to made this.
how do you install? :(
After you have extracted the downloaded file twice (yes twice!) you will have a file. Within that file you have the AluChrystalGTKtheme.targz. Drag and drop that into the system/preferences/appearance -window. Then select the theme. The emerald theme needs to be 'imported' by the emerald-theme manager (use synaptic to install this application if you do not have it yet.)
thanks .. I had read
Hi there. Problem: I'm half way to finish my installation: everything looks OK, except the top bars... I got a warning saying the gtk+ library is not installed. I installed a lot of libs (Pango, glib,...) but I just couldn't manage the J2000 (libjasper) - looks like everything is OK but configure gives me the same error... Any ideas ?
There was an error in the GTKRC-file that produced the said error. This is solved now with version 2.0
Rated good for originality. /izo\
nice theme,really attractive
Are you using an Emerald or Metacity theme for your window decorator? I use Compiz with Emerald and am having troulbe getting the metacity windeco to work properly. Thanks for a great theme!!!
You need to set emerald as your default windowdecorator
really nice work, very smooth edges, like it very much. thank you very much and YES WE CAN :-)) Kind Regards MikeDK
just wanna add, that some bottons on some apps need to be updated, that concerns xchat and Nvidia server settings. kind regards MikeDK be back with a screen
I like this!
In 'Obama'-style answer: yes I can !