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elementary GTK Theme (Version 3.0) Released
Submitted by DanRabbit on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 01:50The latest version of the elementary GTK theme finally sees a release. Just like Luna, our GTK theme has been undergoing a massive update for a little over a year. The new theme uses a very CSS-like syntax and leverages tons of features from the powerful Unico engine that were never available in GTK2.
GTK3 Theming
This is the first release that was built for GTK3. That means it uses the new CSS-like syntax instead of GTKrc, makes use of the new ":backdrop" state to distinguish focused windows from unfocused, and includes the new widgets that were introduced in GTK3 such as switches and the new spin buttons.
Unico Powered
In GTK3 we're using the Unico theme engine, made by the same Andrea Cimitan who created the Murrine theme engine used in GTK2. It adds the ability to finely tweak widgets' borders, add inner and outer strokes, apply gradients and glows, and it even has support for some small transitions.
Granite Integrated
We've even baked in some special support for Granite widgets like Popovers and a new Content View class for a clean white look. There's a whole set of style rules for Sidebars, Secondary Toolbars, and more. We've really kicked up the attention to visual design in our apps with this new theme.
Button Positions
As part of our effort to make apps both launch faster and remember where they were when you closed them. The new button arrangement has landed as part of the default configuration. Read a little more about that here.
Get it Today!
You should notice the latest release trickling down soon if you're already using our daily PPA. Other early adopters can download the tarball directly from launchpad here. For everyone else, you'll see the new theme when Luna makes it's debut soon ;)
Why is that title there anyway?
Wow, it would have taken me ages to see those quirks. Good finds. Still, excellent work on the theme! Give Luna beta now!
A lot of those are specific to the app, not the theme. Load up another theme and you'll still have most of the same quirks. Well, except the rough borders one, which is the window manager, not just the theme. ;)
Still, it's our app. Thanks for spotting them!
Number 8. close button to small, hard to hit. :)
Greate work guys.......
Nice one! Really, really nice one! *smoothness* Now let me find some bugs! >:)
I've been using linux distros for over a decade and finally there is something that looks professionally in terms of design. Great job!
Do I see blue scrollbars? ;) Very sexy!
Can't wait for Luna guys, keep up the hard work, you'll certainly be seeing donations from myself.
Why does BeatBox has so much default playlists?
The smart playlists are there because they're useful for anyone. If you want to delete them, feel free, if you want to setup more complicated smart playlists, feel free. But I hardly feel like four intelligent playlists is a huge amount.
Looking good there! Just increased my appetite for Luna
Best Theme ever! Can't wait to get it with Luna, since I'm with Arch+KDE now and ... 3 days I struggled to make KDE look like elementary. When I was switching away from Ubuntu and tried different distros I found that the first thing I did was to install the elementary theme. Keep up with the good work.
You've done an amazing work Daniel! Definitely the most professional GTK+ theme so far.
Nice BeatBox screenshot BTW ;)
Thanks Victor! Sometimes I still feel there is a long ways to go haha. But It's shaping up for sure :)
Hey BeatBox just looks good ;)
y el boton para minimizar la aplicacion? ,se veria genial con el boton de minimizar al lado del boton para maximizar las aplicaciones
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and the button to minimize the application? , it would look great with the minimize button next to the button to maximize application
Yes yes!
You can refer to this post here: http://elementaryos.org/journal/whats-window-controls :)
acabo de leer la mayor parte de ese post y no me convence, aun sigo pensando que es necesario, porfavor no hagan lo mismo que en mac os x, que quitaron artas caracteristicas del sistema operativo
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I just read most of this post and I am not convinced, although I still think it is necessary, please do not do the same as in mac os x, which took artas operating system features
Btw, will you use the overlay scrollbars like Unity or the new Gnome 3 scrollbars which I think look very slick?
We used GNOME3-like scrollbars in Jupiter but in Luna we'll go with Ayatana scrollbars.
'do not do the same as in mac os x' Actually, OS X do have the minimize button as well as maximize and fullscreen
me referia a que mac os x quito algunas cosas que su anterior sistema operativo tenia
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I meant that mac os x remove some things your previous operating system had
Nice, looks fantastic. Nice to finally switch it up with something professional that some guy didn't make in his spare time. Well, you know what I mean. Great job guys. :D
Haha, I see what you did there ;)
Outstanding work! Congratulations...
Awesome! it looks very nice. Just when you think elementary gtk theme can't be better...
Congrats on the first stable release of the GTK3 version!!!