Mike's Planet » gnome http://www.mikesplanet.net Just a Big Ball of Gas Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:15:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Some words of wisdom about Unity http://www.mikesplanet.net/2010/10/unitywisdom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unitywisdom http://www.mikesplanet.net/2010/10/unitywisdom/#comments Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:05:33 +0000 Mike http://www.mikesplanet.net/?p=500

This Twitter post sums up all my feelings about the decision to make Unity the default desktop in Gnome in Ubuntu 11.04. Let see how Unity develops for the desktop before passing judgement.

]]> http://www.mikesplanet.net/2010/10/unitywisdom/feed/ 11 Using Dark Themes in Ubuntu (Gnome 2.2x) http://www.mikesplanet.net/2008/06/using-dark-themes-in-ubuntu/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=using-dark-themes-in-ubuntu http://www.mikesplanet.net/2008/06/using-dark-themes-in-ubuntu/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:26:54 +0000 Mike http://www.mikesplanet.net/?p=141 Using dark themes in Gnome has always has some issues. Due to issues in Gnome and GTK apps, some application have problems like dark fonts on dark background, text areas grayed out, and multiple issues with OpenOffice. Here is a quick guide to solve many of the problems I encountered using dark themes in Gnome.

1. Firefox Fixes
Firefox has issues display certain CSS field properly with dark themes. This is a big problem in Firefox 2, but can still happen in Firefox 3. Install this userContent.css to /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/RandomProfile_name/chrome and restart Firefox.

2a. Dark System Themes (Ubuntu Studio)
The easiest solution for a dark theme in Ubuntu is to install the UbuntuStudio-theme package.
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-theme
or if you want the full metapackage with icons, GDM theme, etc..
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-look
The Ubuntu Studio theme is a beautiful theme created by the Ubuntu Studio team, which fixes many of the problem with dark themes in Gnome.

2b. Other Dark Themes
Since Linux is all about choice, we want to use other dark themes for Gnome and workaround issues these themes have. First, we still want to install the ubuntustudio-theme package.
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-theme
Then we will use UbuntuStudio theme on certain applications that have problems with dark themes (OpenOffice, Banshee, Thunderbird,etc…).

To get an application to use another theme you want to add the following to the command the launches a program “env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/UbuntuStudio/gtk-2.0/gtkrc“. Right click on the gnome menu applet and choose Edit Menus. Goto the application you want using a different theme (in this example OpenOffice Writer), right click the application and select Properties. Change the Command from
ooffice -writer %U
to
env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/UbuntuStudio/gtk-2.0/gtkrc ooffice -writer %U
OpenOffice Writer should now use UbuntuStudio theme instead of the system theme you have set.

If you have any comment or suggestion for this guide, please comment on this thread on the Ubuntu Forums.

Dark Theme
Theme Details:
Theme: Moomex Ultimatum 0.4
Font: UnDotum Bold
Icons: Jungle Black
Wallpaper: Radiant from http://interfacelift.com

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