"Aero Glass Purple" Emerald theme + colours

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Aqua Glass Purple 1.0

August 2009 by Lord Ba'al

This is my first try at an Emerald theme, combining the OS X Aqua buttons (including glow effects) with a nice glass bar :cool:

To apply the theme, open the Emerald Theme Manager, click on "Import", select the AquaGlassPurple.emerald theme file and click on "Open" in the lower right corner. Next, select "AquaGlassPurple" from the themes list, and it will be applied automatically.

Note: This theme uses the "MV Boli" font for the titlebar. If you don't have it, open the included mvboli.ttf in the Font Viewer and click on "Install" in the lower right corner.

To use the included colour scheme, copy the .color file to the following sub-directory in your home directory:

/.kde4/share/apps/color-schemes

Then open the Kde Control Centre, go to Appearance > Colours, select "Aqua Glass Purple" and click on "Apply" in the lower right corner.

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AquaGlassPurple.zip

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FOR WINDOWS?

Good joke :rofl:

No, as you can see at the very top, it says: "Customising your *nix Desktop", *nix meaning Linux and variants.

Doing the same theme on Windows would be a royal pain in the ass, with no good and convenient tools around to do it. Besides, MS doesn't want people to customise their Windows, otherwise you wouldn't have to patch several files in order to use themes. On top of that, all themes are intentionally made unusable when a new Windows version appears (XP->Vista, Vista->Win7), and you even need different themes for 32bit/64bit :pinch:

I think he is Using KDE- So this must be Linux and from a prior post I would say--

Mandriva 2009.1 Spring

Exactly.

Looks sweet-- making me think I may want to install the Kubuntu desktop-

Which Kde version ?

Currently using it on Kde 4.2.4 w/ Compiz/Emerald 0.8.2 (still waiting for Kde 4.3 to appear in the repositories).

Something I forgot to mention:

The titlebar can be either normal layout or OS X layout. To use the latter: after selecting the theme from the list in the Emerald Theme Manager, click on "Edit themes" at the top. Then, on the "Titlebar" tab, select "OS X Layout" from the "Titlebar Object Layout" combobox.

Below is a screenshot with OS X button layout.

I've also submitted it to Compiz-Themes.org now:

http://www.compiz-themes.org/content/show.php?content=109699

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Version 1.2 is done :cool:

I've put some more work into the title bar and title bar buttons and did some more fine-tuning.

Besides that, I've also done an orange variant, have a look. Download links are at the bottom.

AquaGlassPurple12.zip

AquaGlassOrange12.zip

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I like the orange version (Y)

One question though, did you build this from scratch, or did you mod a previously existing theme. Because I've started changing colour scheme of an emerald theme and ended up with something that might pass as a mod/new theme.

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I like the orange version (Y)

One question though, did you build this from scratch, or did you mod a previously existing theme. Because I've started changing colour scheme of an emerald theme and ended up with something that might pass as a mod/new theme.

I did it from scratch.

If you modded a theme, you should give the original creator credit.

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