Lila Theme Official Thread (Part 1)

dgt84 · Last edited by dgt84 on Thu Apr 29, 2004 12:25 pm; edited 19 times in total

Hello Everyone

This is the official thread for the Lila themes. You can see a screenshot of the GNOME/GTK themes in action here.

Make sure to check out our new wiki! Please use the wiki to download the themes. I've decided to stop listing them here because it is easier when others can also update the page.

The themes are made entirely of SVG graphics which means they can be scaled to any size without loss of quality, and are based on Gentoo Linux.

There is also an experimental script written by Unne that lets you change the theme's colors here.

This thread is for the following things:
-Icon/Theme Additions
-Icon/Theme Requests
-Ideas
-Comments

Any and all contributions to the theme are welcome! Please, if you see an application icon that is missing, try to make one! Also, please take a look at existing icons in /usr/share/icons/* to see what other icons need to be made (hint, the apps and mimetypes folders have a _lot_ of icons in them).

Contributing to the theme:
For all those that wish to contribute icons, here are some general specifications to follow.
The icons are made using Inkscape, but you can probably use Sodipodi as well.
Make sure to check out my Inkscape Tutorials.
Sizes
-Icon size should be 48x48 pts
-Border size should be 1.5, unless the border is within another part of the icon (for example, some of the mimetypes may not have 1.5 borders)
-The entire icon (with drop shadow) should fit within the document border visible in Inkscape.
Colors - Gradients
-The dark purple is a gradient from rgb(0.85, 0.80, 0.90) to rgb(0.45, 0.40, 0.50)
-The light purple is a gradient from rgb(1.0, 1.0, 1.0) to rgb(0.85, 0.80, 0.90)
-The highlight gradient is just white, but the alpha value goes from 1.0 to 0.0
-The red is a gradient from rgb(0.96, 0, 0) to rgb(0.66, 0, 0)
-The green gradient is from rgb(0.25, 0.50, 0.25) to rgb(0.50, 1.0, 0.50)
-Other colors can be added in the future, so go ahead and be creative!
Colors - Borders
-The border color for the purples should be rgb(0.15, 0.10, 0.20)
-All other border colors shoulld follow this pattern: green = rgb(0, 0.20, 0), red = rgb(0.20, 0, 0), yellow = rgb(0.20, 0.20, 0), etc...
Shapes
-Most shapes should be smooth whenever possible (unless an application icon needs to have sharp corners or such).
-Most shapes should have a drop shadow, which is just a copy without a border, colored black with 30% opacity.
Naming schemes
-GNOME icons should follow the GNOME theme naming scheme, e.g. gnome-dev-cdrom, gnome-fs-home, etc...
-Application icons should be named whatever the normal icon for that application's menu item is, e.g. gcalctool for the GNOME Calculator, media-player-48 for Totem, evolution-1.4 for Ximian Evolution, etc... (This can be found out by right clicking, hitting properties and clicking the icon. The default name should be shown)
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shm · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 5:08 pm Post subject: Re: Lila GNOME/GTK Theme

Wolven · Guru Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 325 Location: Norway

Nice work!
The theme is nice, not as purple as I feard it would be before I installed it. But a nice cool clean look.

I like the icons too they'r not as pink as I remeber them from the preview you showed us earlier. They fit nicely it to the theme, and I like the soft/round feel they have.
Two thumbs up.

dgt84 · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 6:42 pm Post subject: Re: Lila GNOME/GTK Theme

x2z · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject:

Awesome theme. Great job.

dgt84 · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 12:12 am Post subject:

nrl · Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 446 Location: Glasgow, UK

WOW, very nice I've been on the look out for a good SVG theme for a while

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Unne · l33t Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 616

First time I've changed my scheme in months. Wonderful. I'd help if I had the skill.

dgt84 · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:18 am Post subject:

guy · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Posts: 286 Location: USA

the gameboy controller alone makes it awesome !
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kaput · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 197

Nice work! Since some of the icons are somewhat Gentoo specific, it'd be great to get an ebuild worked into Portage. Also, that way, it'll be easier to know when updates and new icons have been commited. :wink:

dgt84 · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject:

dvc5 · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:15 am Post subject:

How did you get your icons to work for the gnome menu and nautilus directory tree "home" icon? Mine uses the default w/ the Lila icons for everything else.
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Hypnos · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:18 am Post subject:

Not my style, but pretty and usable -- good work!
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dgt84 · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:50 am Post subject:

dgt84 · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 12:07 pm Post subject:

Sorry for the double post, but I figured it out:
Make a link from (if using nautilus just right-click and select 'make link' and cut/paste the link to where I say below):

dreas · Guru Joined: 06 Aug 2003 Posts: 359 Location: Germany

I was planning on doing some stuff on inkscape soon anyway (have only done some stuff on freehand here at work yet). It's just that my spare time is very limited and I'll have to start coding anytime soon as well. So I might be able to help some.

By the way, it would be rather easy to color these icons differently, wouldn't it?

@guy: Looks like a NES controller to me! :wink:

dgt84 · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject:

dvc5 · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject:

Sweet! That fixed it for me. Thanks for your help.
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d3c3it · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:50 pm Post subject:

i wondered where everyone was getting those icons from, they are seriously nice

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hjlane3 · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:07 pm Post subject:

They're very nice! good work! can't wait for the theme to be more complete :-)

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Vidar · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:40 am Post subject:

After trying to create a few icons, the only one I've been able to succeed at is a beep-media player icon. All I've been able to really do is do a grad. swap... You can download it here:

http://geocities.com/n_ick2000/bmpsvg.html (yes I know geocities is horrible)

Wow, I didn't think svg icons would be that hard. It litterally took me a couple of hours to figure out how to do the grad swap. Kudos to dgt84 for doing ALL that work.

Anyway, some icons I would really like to see:
Gaim
Mozilla Firefox
Xchat
The rest of the basic gnome set (that would take forever)

Please somebody with graphic tallent take this up. It's an awesome theme and to be complete it needs a larger icon set.
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dgt84 · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:48 am Post subject:

dreas · Guru Joined: 06 Aug 2003 Posts: 359 Location: Germany