Monday, May 12th, 2008

Darkness Returns GTK+ Theme

It occurred to me this morning that I have been using the same GTK+ theme for a couple months. I consider this fact to be a result; I have comfortably settled into using a theme and I had not fully realised it, that has to be a good sign! While I enjoy playing around with the look 'n' feel of my desktop, I cannot help but think it is a waste of time and I should be doing something more constructive; therefore, this morning's realisation comes as something of a relief.

Darkness Returns GTK+ theme.

The theme I have settled into using is called Darkness Returns. I named it so because CrunchBang Linux was originally distributed with a dark theme, then it changed to a light theme, before moving back to a dark theme for the last release; hence, Darkness Returns — pure genius :)

Darkness Returns is based on the Clearlooks GTK+ engine. It is not actually as dark as some dark themes, instead it is more of a halfway house between the lightness and the darkness; maybe I should have named it "Sitting On The Fence"? Anyhow, a couple of people have asked me for the theme and so I have made it available on my wiki. More screenshots of the theme can also be seen on my wiki: CrunchBang Linux 8.04.01 Screenshots. Feel free to use and abuse :)


4 Responses to “Darkness Returns GTK+ Theme”

  1. Michael Wood wrote,

    Good work, now go submit it on art.gnome.org!

  2. Philip wrote,

    Thanks Michael :) Not sure I about submitting it to art.gnome, as stated on the wiki page the theme works well under Openbox, but I have not tested it at all with GNOME. Having said that, I could submit it to Box-Look.org, thanks for the idea :)

  3. arpbook wrote,

    Hi Philip,
    Look how your theme goes on gnome under hardy-compiz:

    So now I think you can put it on gnome-look ;-) Thanks for the good work and the total file on your wiki (very useful for personalization) a+
    arp

  4. Philip wrote,

    Hi arp, thank you for taking the time to produce the screenshots, they are great, and the themes do not look too bad either :)

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