the hardy alpha 3 livecd has this strange compiz bug.
if the window decorator starts up before the gnome settings daemon then the decorator uses the default gtk selection colour (a deep blue). the bug is that when the settings daemon gets itself going the buttons on the window titlebar change colour but the titlebar itself stays stuck at the old colour.
this produces a very strange effect:
when i first started up the live cd i said to myself “wow! this is a really cool new theme!”. the theme seemed to come and go, though, and i finally realised that what i was looking at was actually just a strange bug caused by a race condition.
anyway, i like this bug so much that i’ve turned it into a proper theme. i did this simply by taking the “human” metacity theme and hardcoding the two different colours into it.
unpack the tarball in your ~/.themes directory.
enjoy!
