Lila Theme Official Thread (Part 1)

solatis · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject:

Question: the Opera lila theme looks a bit different lila from the "standard" lila theme i'm using (openbox and gnome-panel) .

http://solatis3.student.utwente.nl/26.05.04.png

You guys can see what I mean ?

Is there any chance there will be an "official" lila ?
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9-speed · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 10:02 pm Post subject:

solatis · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject:

Well, as long as there isn't anything better, I think it fits. I rather have this than something else... but since I'm not an artist, but rather the programming kind of person, but I really appreciate eye-candy, I would really love to see an "official" opera lila theme

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salmo · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 1:04 am Post subject:

9-speed · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 8:49 am Post subject:

motub · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 9:33 am Post subject:

OK, I love this set of themes, and I use it wherever possible, but I'm having 2 problems.

The biggest problem seems to be because I'm using Openbox 3. I can't get Lila widgets and icons to appear in normal gtk apps. Using gnome-settings-daemon does not help, even though the last theme I used under Gnome was set to use Lila icons, all I can get under Openbox is default widgets and icons. Using switch2 or gtk-chtheme does not allow me to change the icon theme, and if I can change the icon theme from within the Openbox theme config, I don't know how (the Lila Openbox themes did not change the icon theme either, but I use Anchos anyway, which is a bit more purple).

The only possiblility that I see for why this might be happening is that I'm using the ported ThinGeramik GTK theme (which matches the Lila "flower" background perfectly and saves me from having to look at a whole lot of white on my desktop, which I really don't like)-- but even though it works, the theme seems to be semi-broken. If I boot back into GNOME and try to change the window controls of my custom theme (to Amaranth, say), only part of the MDI window internals change (sorry if this is called something different under Linux, not a big theme hacker here); a large section remains green. The point being that some part of ThinGeramik (and Geramik) appear to hook into the theme in such a way that they can't be removed once invoked-- could this be affecting the icon display? (I tried changing ThinGeramik's icon scheme to Lila, but that failed, likely because I had no idea what I was doing

).

If there's a way to configure gnome-settings-daemon to use something other than the default widgets (and the default gkrellm theme), I'd like to know about it, as GConf-editor seems to be set correctly, and that would be where I'd have thought it was getting its settings from.

If anyone knows how to solve this, I'd be grateful.

The second problem is Gnome-Commander. It does have a facility to change the icon theme used, but the Lila icons (like most current icon schemes, in fact) are packaged in a different way than what it wants. I went to the Gnome Commander homepage and followed the Tips and Tricks section, which linked to a download of the Unscalable Gorilla icon theme. Installing that download as the icon theme for GCMD did work, and then I looked at the extracted folder and compared it to the layout of Lila (and Aqua Fusion, and Snow Apple, and you-name-it), and they're completely different.

I'm quite sure that all the icons are there, but they are named and laid out for GNOME/Nautilus use, and I'm not sure how to rename/repack them for Gnome-Commander use.

If anyone knows how I can, or wants to do it, I'd really appreciate it.

At this point, all the Lila I can use is the "flower" background, the Firebird theme, the XMMS theme and a bunch of color hacks to make everything a bit consistent. I'd really like to do better, without having to go back to GNOME.

Thanks.

Snooper · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject: GTK-Icons

Just for an FYI I'm working on adding the icons in gtk-2.0 to the Gnome-Lila-Icons set i'm almost done except have an assue with about 10 icons and fix a few things i noticed there are icons for but are not named correct or need to be copied and renamed to work for other things:-)

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Snooper · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 2:58 am Post subject:

I am currently working on red, blue, and green icons they are done and i have moved the gtk icons into the icons folder and updated the iconrc i'll upload all of it as soon as i get the gtkrc stuff done for each color.

this will be a massive update to the gtk-themes package and gnome-icons package. so after i post i guess i'll need everyone else that has made gtk themes and metacity themes to hack thru it and include there work all i am doing is the stock metacity theme and the stock lila-simple gtk theme from dgt with the inclusion of the red, blue, and green icons.

I guess the other colors could be added later when the stock colors for lila expand beyond what they are already:-)

Snooper · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 4:02 am Post subject:

I have uploaded the updated GTK-themes, and Gnome-icons packages.

ChangeLog:
The icons in the old gtk-2.0 directory under gtk package have moved into the icons package.
I have added green, blue, and red icons.
I have updated the iconrc files to point to there respective icons and colors.
I have added the metacity theme from dgt into the gtk package and the theme.index file to show Lila as an avalable theme.

Those maintaining other themes i have not added they will need to be added into the package and maybe the colors updated for red, green, and blue.

i changed the default gtkrc file to include red, blue, and green.

the 2 packages contain:
GTK-lila-themes-all.tar.bz2
-dgt's metatheme
-updated theme.index
-updated gtkrc and iconrc files to include red, blue and green
Gnome-lila-icons-all.tar.bz2
-icons in red, blue, green, and purple

all available at or until scaba adds theme to the ebuild or until the package is updated to include other themes:

here

scaba · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 6:10 am Post subject:

salmo · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 6:51 am Post subject:

citizen428 · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 8:49 am Post subject:

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salmo · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject:

scaba · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject:

get the latest files some posts down the thread :!:

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experimental & incomplete modular Lila ebuilds -- for testing purposes only
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i've been playing with the eclass/ebuilds and created some of the new ones.
everything is short and simple. easy to maintain. renaming does the job as long as there are no internal changes.
but there are quiet a few ebuilds and it is a pain to dowload/digest/emerge them all.

here's the new stuff:
Lila-eclass //removed -- PORTDIR_OVERLAY/eclass
Lila-backgrounds //removed -- PORTDIR_OVERLAY/x11-themes/Lila-backgrounds
Lila-bootsplash-themes //removed -- PORTDIR_OVERLAY/x11-themes/Lila-bootsplash-themes
Lila-gaim-smilies //removed -- PORTDIR_OVERLAY/x11-themes/Lila-gaim-smilies
Lila-gdm-themes //removed -- PORTDIR_OVERLAY/x11-themes/Lila-gdm-themes
Lila-gnome-icons //removed -- PORTDIR_OVERLAY/x11-themes/Lila-gnome-icons
Lila-grub-splashimages //removed -- PORTDIR_OVERLAY/x11-themes/Lila-grub-splashimages
Lila-gtk+-themes //removed -- PORTDIR_OVERLAY/x11-themes/Lila-gtk+-themes

'Lila-gnome-icons' and 'Lila-gtk+-themes' contain the latest work Snooper uploaded. everything else was already in 'lila-artwork-0.3.3-r2'.

i simplified the eclass and renamed it (hope you don't mind, superjaded). eclass/ebuilds now need 'Lila-packagename-version.tar.bz2/gz' and inside a directory with the same name as the archive, i.e 'Lila-packagename'.

the stuff above is all repackaged accordingly and hosted on my webspace for the time being.
you ought to remove your old Lila-distfiles before digesting the new ebuilds to make sure you get the latest tarballs.

:!:

i haven't tested everything as it's 01:00am and i'm going to get some sleep now...

EDIT: did a bit of testing as it's late anyway

some ebuilds currently don't work...
well, actually most ebuild don't work. that's a pity, but it's just an experimental ebuild after all :roll:

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superjaded · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 802

Heh, like I said, do whatever you want with them.

Bash is not my forte, not even when I regularly scripted in it.

Although I did notice you have this set in the src_install routine:

salmo · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 6:17 am Post subject:

scaba · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 8:40 am Post subject:

scaba · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 10:29 am Post subject:

things are behaving properly now

get the lila-gnome snapshot, extract it to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY and run salmo's script. that's it.

telex4 · l33t Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 704 Location: Reading, UK

Where's the KDE ebuild?

scaba · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 10:45 am Post subject:

Snooper · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 2:13 pm Post subject:

I've uploaded a new metacity theme it's a bite off the ximian metacity theme but the close, restore, maximize, minimize, and menu have been lila fied:-) i'm also working on some new gtk themes as i found you can do beveled, gradient, shadow_in/out menu's and i'm sure so much more:-)

motub · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 3:00 pm Post subject:

Please please please could the gtk themes feature some other colors (matching, of course) than white or light gray for the internal window colors?

Please???

Snooper · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 3:20 pm Post subject:

like what colors? you know you don't have to use the base white for nautilus there are patterns available green, and purple scanlines thats what i use they are part of the wallapaper package under nautilus just drop them in /usr/share/nautilus/patterns