Horrible, Horrible Colours

Here is the first screenshot of colour schemes in gnome-theme-manager. The UI will improve, but the colours are (at last) up to you.

Theme Manager with Colours Tab

Maybe I will finally be able to close this five year old bug.

23 thoughts on “Horrible, Horrible Colours”

  1. Also, I need a way to make buttons a different color than their background. Please consider adding this ability, because it helps in usability having the buttons a tint lighter/darker than the bg window color.

  2. Eugenia, Pavel: My current plans include the ability to specify a number of different color schemes in the theme itself (including translations of the colour scheme names). If you set your own colours, you will set the current colour scheme to “Custom”, and will always be able to pick one of the schemes from the theme again.

  3. Eugenia: The way this works is that the theme will specify shade for different appearances. e.g. it will shade the background colour lighter for objects in a prelight state. If you want buttons a lighter colour than the background, all you need to to is specify this in your theme (i.e. create a button style in your gtkrc and set bg[NORMAL] = lighter(@bg_color)).

  4. Well, the whole point is to not have to go to gtkrc to do these things. 🙁
    Personally, I would like to see this option in the GUI.

  5. What happens when you want to change the colors of a pixmap theme? Will the color tab/buttons be insensitive then?

  6. Of course, you’ll need a way to make sure users don’t paint themselves into a corner (fg = bg)…

  7. Perhaps it would be a bit overkill to provide profiles for this. If there is some way to enter or extract a color code, maybe this would be sufficient for most needs.

    Color profiles and the ability to change the shading of buttons and such might better belong in a graphical theme editor *hint*hint* :o)

    Love, Karderio.

  8. thank you very much!! 🙂 🙂

    it is because of people like you that open source software makes from time to time a great wonderful update!!

    thank you very much!!

  9. Wow. I have spent countless hours in GIMP changing the colors of themes. Now i may not have to. Thank you so much!!

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