Dark themes

[David Rosenstrauch]

FYI - here's how I've been able to configure my XFCE system for a nice 
dark theme throughout.  (See: 
http://www.darose.net/DaroseDesktop2011-09.png)

* Created a custom dark color scheme in KDE 
(http://www.darose.net/Dark-Blue-Grey-Dave9.kcsrc), and set that as my 
KDE colors.

* In qtconfig, set my GUI Style to Oxygen.

* Installed Oxygen GTK, and set that as my active Style in XFCE 
settings, in the Appearance tab.

* Made a few other little color tweaks to specific apps (e.g., 
konqueror) and panel applets (Orage clock) as needed.

HTH,

DR

On 05/04/2012 05:10 AM, Marton Balazs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> first let me thank you for your wonderful work with Xfce.
>
> I'm writing about dark themes in Xfce 4.8 that came with upgrading to
> Xubuntu 12.04. Just to let you know that anyone with this setup willing
> to have a dark theme has to work quite a bit to get things right.
>
> My favourite Albatross theme was showing the Weather applet in dark grey
> on a slightly darker panel even in 11.10, a bit difficult to read but I
> could live with that. Now after the upgrade this stayed, but also
> Upgrade Manager started to work with white fonts on a lightgrey
> background. This was really hard to read, so I changed my theme to
> Xfce-dusk.
>
> In Xfce-dusk came the next surprise: Firefox (didn't) put white fonts on
> white backgrounds for fill-in areas. A solution I found was creating a
> userContent.css file for Firefox.
>
> I wonder if you think instructions on font colors for e.g. Weather
> applet and Upgrade-Manager in Albatross, and for e.g. Firefox in
> Xfce-dusk can be put in the theme itself for future versions.
>
> Thanks,
> Marton