OmniOS Blue for Fluxbox

[markwolfe Veteran]

I really liked emmzaa's theme posted here on Neowin a few months ago.

Things have been hectic around the house (with me in the middle of a career change at the moment), but I have finally gotten around to getting a functional theme going.

Here is a screenie (remember fluxbox is just a basic Window Manager, and has nothing to do with gtk or anything going on inside the windows, such as scrollbars, menus or the standard gray coloring).

A lot of the finer detailed pixmaps for the menus in the original could not be included due to the simplicity of flux styles, but this still has appeal to me.

The attached files are the style file (remove the .txt extension required for Neowin upload) that you place in your ~/.fluxbox/styles/ directory. It points to the content in the tarball (again, remove the .zip extension required for Neowin upload) that must be untarred into your ~/.fluxbox/pixmaps/ directory.

OmniOS.tar.gz.zip

OmniOS_LiteBlue.txt

[Lechio]

Looks nice. :)

The windec buttons are simple and look good. Would consider using this with flux if I was running it.

On a side note: is there a reason for you to use the default grayish GTK theme? Firefox looks so... gray. :p

[markwolfe Veteran]

On a side note: is there a reason for you to use the default grayish GTK theme? Firefox looks so... gray. :p

The truth?

Because I have never cared to look into changing it. :p

And my selection of preferred apps were made without regard to libraries, so I have lesstif (nedit), GTK, and QT apps all in-use, and would have to change them all. Not sure how much lesstif work can be done. Nor am I sure what OO.o uses :unsure:

For all my years of using Linux, I have never been much into the theming thing. :blush:

The credit for the good-looking buttons goes to emmzaa. The blame for all that is unholy and wrong goes to me (and the limitations of flux)

[rson451]

For all my years of using Linux, I have never been much into the theming thing. :blush:

Seems to me if you are making themes then that era is over ;)

Nice work.

[Lechio]

The truth?

Because I have never cared to look into changing it. :p

And my selection of preferred apps were made without regard to libraries, so I have lesstif (nedit), GTK, and QT apps all in-use, and would have to change them all. Not sure how much lesstif work can be done. Nor am I sure what OO.o uses :unsure:

For the gtk's (version 1 and 2) I use (outside KDE) the tool "gtk-theme-switch" and "gtk-theme-switch2".

To change the QT ones I use kcontrol (from KDE).

Motif/Lesstif well... Those aren't even worth theming...

The widgets in Openoffice.org look to be GTK, but not sure about that. If it is GTK it's a tweaked version of it.

It's all a big mess it's what it is... There will be great joy on the day that someone remembers to make a tool which will handle the theme switching of all the different applications, no matter what basis those have. And it's not even that complicated to make such an application. Only takes an application that can parse a few configuration files...

The ideal would be to make all the different toolkits fully compatible with each other. Not just in the looks but in the actual API. There seems to be interest in doing that, between GNOME and KDE. D-Bus for instance is a great step forward in that direction, just hope that a lot more will be done in this area.

[Bunio]

Very nice :)

Which icon theme do you using?

[markwolfe Veteran]

Very nice :)

Which icon theme do you using?

Thanks, but the credit goes to emmzaa for the window decorations. Mostly, I just made her bitmaps work with fluxbox's requirements, and used her colors to match in the grip and menu areas.

As for icons, just Xubuntu default.

[Fish]

Nice port. You should setup a DeviantArt page to host it, and cross-link it with emmzaa's page. I'm sure a lot of other Flux users would use this.