Lila Theme Official Thread (Part 1)

motub · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject:

I already use the Nautilus backgrounds (although those only work if you show the windows in "icon view").

I'm talking about what I only can refer to as the "MDI window" colors.

The color of the menu. The color of all things that change when you choose a different theme in the "window controls" section of the theme details window in the GNOME theme applet.

All of the current GTK Lila themes are white or off-white, with a purple highlight when you move your mouse over a menu item or button. This means the panels are white. The menus are white.

Most GTK themes are like this, with the exception of a few, such as 6nome-sandy, Gorilla (which are pale brown/sand colored) and nuvola (which is some kind of pale cornflower blue). Most all the others use white or pale gray. That's why I was using ThinGeramik (ported), but that was only green/purple because I had customized the colors in KDE before that, and apparently it was reading those settings (which also seems to have broken GTK/gnome themeing, but that's another story). From the screenshots of the homepage for the port, Geramik/ThinGeramik are natively light blue.

I would like violet or pale green for a change, and preferably a bit dark or unsaturated if possible, because all these light menus and panels make my eyes hurt after a while.

Snooper · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject:

i've already uploaded menu highlights in green, blue, and red, and my purple is slitely darker

motub · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 5:20 pm Post subject:

Thank you (that should certainly help if I give the red icons a shot).

But what color is the menu itself? (I'm reinstalling gtk atm, and possibly GNOME as well, as something is definitely broken, so I can't check).

Snooper · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 5:52 pm Post subject:

the menu is still that off white f8f8f8

scaba · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject:

Snooper · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject:

i had actually done the circles on purpuse to act as a button circle i'll make some revisions and take some screen shots with drawing a circle and square and put the icons in the drawn area without the alpha circle behind it. i was kinda looking at that and wondering about it too. i'll also just do it without any border and just the image by itself see what people like. i didn't add the metacity theme to the colors so they would all point to the lila metacity theme and the gtkrc would paint the blue,red,purple etc title, text, bg colors.

scaba · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 10:40 pm Post subject:

#new snapshot
lila-gnome

extract to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY and run lila-script.

Snooper · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 4:14 am Post subject:

scaba i uploaded icons-alt.tar.bz2 these are an alternative just drop them over the old ones in lila2/metacity-1 and tell me what you think i have black ones also but i have to change the code to use them so this is just a test.

added alt direcs to the file just move those into the metacity direc to test those also.

salmo · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 7:26 am Post subject:

Just finished installing the new snapshot and switched to the Lila-Blue metatheme, just for a change of pace. Works beautifully for me. Went to the wiki to add the info and I see someone beat me to it

. Excellent work scaba.

scaba · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 8:01 am Post subject:

scaba · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject:

#new snapshots
lila-gnome
lila-xfce
lila-openbox

extract to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY and run lila-script.

scaba · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 7:30 pm Post subject:

#new snapshots
lila-gnome
lila-kde
lila-openbox
lila-xfce

extract to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY and run lila-script.

ecatmur · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 8:38 pm Post subject:

I have a few icons at http://home.jesus.ox.ac.uk/~ecatmur/gentoo/lila/

gaim-dialog-info.svg
gnome-dev-mouse-optical.svg
gnome-mime-application-x-desktop.svg
gnome-mime-application-x-dvi.svg
gnome-screenshot.svg* (copy of applets-screenshooter.svg, needed for the 2.6 panel menu item)
liferea.svg
lyx.svg
muine.svg
panel-force-quit.svg
sound-juicer.svg

Is this the right place to put them, or should I go to the wiki as well?

I'm getting to like this...
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ecatmur · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 8:40 pm Post subject:

Oh, also I thought it'd be an idea to make an ebuild for the fonts so they can be installed by Portage:

http://home.jesus.ox.ac.uk/~ecatmur/gentoo/trees/lila-artwork/media-fonts/lila-fonts/lila-fonts-0.1.ebuild

Problem is one of the websites won't let wget download the font file so you might have to host that one.
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Snooper · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 9:34 pm Post subject:

We need a CVS lol and a repository where all the icons are so that people can just upload edit the changelog and auto package nightly or something

salmo · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 5:06 am Post subject:

ecatmur · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 5:35 am Post subject:

The Ray Larabie font (the one that the server won't let wget download) has a fairly liberal license:

ecatmur · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 6:08 am Post subject:

OK, I've put all my latest ones up on the wiki. Hope you like them; the mouse and the phone were a bitch to draw.
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phranzee · Guru Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 397 Location: katowice/pl

hi. is it possible in firefox to make the toolbar icons smaller than the "use small icons" version ?
lila theme for ff is great, but it takes too much space. i use "Bitstream Vera Sans 8" for menus and the icons make the toolbar unnecessarily big.
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salmo · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 7:46 am Post subject:

Ok, it's really late, but I updated lila-script a bit. Now it takes a -v option that prompts before downloading/building the digests or runs emerge with --ask depending on the context. oh and it spits out a usage statement when run wrong.

It's a bit heftier so I'll just point you to
http://clearcreeksupport.com/lila/lila-script

It's still a hack, still kills babies (but asks you first now!), use at your own risk, etc.

@ecatmur: The only issue then would be if you wanted to get your ebuild into portage, since they sell Gentoo on CD (I'm guessing with some sort of portage snapshot). Then again I may be off base again

. Also permission may be able to be aranged and I don't know if it's considered "for profit" if it's being sold by a non-profit, etc. etc. sidenote: I really hate roll-your-own licenses.

And enough of the legal crap, I really dig your icons. Thanks!

scaba · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 9:51 am Post subject:

dgt84 · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 1:23 pm Post subject:

Damn, lost my thread subscription again...

Nice job everyone is doing!

@etcatmur: I like the icons, keep it up :wink:

If this keeps up I'll make some new releases soon

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scaba · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 2:52 pm Post subject:

dgt84, in your metacity theme (at least i believe it's the metacity theme) text boxes have no border around them, which makes it hard to see sometimes.
have a look at these screenshots, Lila-purple (without borders) and Gorilla (with borders) to know what i mean.
would it be possible to change that? other than that it's a great theme!

oh, and something else. why is it that the icons (in the applications menu) of firefox, thunderbird, xmms and others are still the normal/original ones despite the fact that there are lila icons available?
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dgt84 · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 4:07 pm Post subject:

ecatmur · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 5:33 pm Post subject:

firefox needs to be called firefox-icon.svg (like mozilla).
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