Dark GNOME (definitive)
HOWTO:
It’s Clearlooks based and I’m using Tango icon theme.
Feel free to mail me (subject: “DARK GNOME”). I’ll send you the theme file (tar.gz) and the user-stylesheet.css (to make browsing easier).
Also, if you´re using Ubuntu, change the notification theme to GNOME default:
~$ gconftool -s --type=string /apps/notification-daemon/theme standard
or just change the key value using gconf-editor.
That’s all!
Dear GNOMErs:
Can I have a “http://www.gnome.org/~brunobol” space to keep some files?
Tags: dark gnome, gnome, themes
November 29th, 2007 at 1:28 am
You can always attach files to your posts in blogo.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:30 am
@jdub:
I can’t attach tar.gz files.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Can you please send me the user-stylesheet.css, I will also be able to upload it for you if you wish
November 29th, 2007 at 1:38 am
Rename it to tar.gz_
November 29th, 2007 at 1:39 am
Ah, good point… I figure we trust anyone who can get a blogo account to use it responsibly (or do the appropriate thing if they make a mistake), so I’ll add it to the extension whitelist.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:43 am
Try it now and let me know how it goes.
November 29th, 2007 at 4:32 am
I’d like the css file. I’ve put your theme into use, but the most annoying thing about dark themes is all of the internet assumed you’re using light themes, and so they’ll set the font-color, but not the background, making it harder to read. Maybe the css file you have will make it easier…
Firefox doesn’t quite handle it well with the location/search bar either, but I can deal with it.
November 29th, 2007 at 7:46 am
i absolutely love dark desktops, the only drawback is a really high contrast, whenever browsing web =(
November 29th, 2007 at 10:35 am
@jdub:
I could attach the file, but WP changes its name: “dark-gnome.tar.gz” into “dark-gnometar.gz”.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:44 am
I think that Gnome foot (in nautilus window) is too dark and is not clearly seen
But it’s a great job
Thanks
November 29th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
This theme totally rocks.
As mentioned above, there is the problem of ver high contrast while webbrowsing.
So your stylesheet is very welcome as it solves the issue at least for webforms, buttons etc.
And, as i just noticed, for GMail.
Thanks Bruno!
November 29th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
bruno,
You should post this theme in gnome-look.
Abraço.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
And what is the problem?
We want the files, we can rename one of them! 
Cheers!
November 29th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/policies/accounts/shell.html
November 29th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
There are things I like about this theme, but my biggest problem is that (blue) urls in email are unreadable. It was fun giving it a test drive.
November 29th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
just funny though, how math formulas in OpenOffice also end up being white
November 30th, 2007 at 6:01 am
I would change body.background-color to #888, white is burning my eyes.
November 30th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
I’ll comment here and leave off the text in my email request message; I’m assuming you’re getting a handful of them.
Looks really nice… my problem with Darklooks has been with the libnotify popups. I’m guessing you know this, given the prominent update notification in the screenshot. Good stuff.
November 30th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
I get a “The file format is invalid” message when I drag&drop the theme into the appareance preferences
November 30th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
@michele:
Wordprees changed its name to “dark-gnometar.gz”. Rename to “dark-gnome.tar.gz”.
Cheers!
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:20 pm
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