New theme proposal

Daniel Ostrow dostrow at gentoo.org
Tue Jul 18 00:26:45 CEST 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 23:54 +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> You may already knpw; I'm not very happy with the current Xfce 4.4
> default color scheme. It doesn't look very good IMHO.
> 
> As we more or less standardize on Tango, I'd prefer something along
> those lines:
> 
> http://www.foo-projects.org/~olivier/screenshots/Xfce-Tango-proposal.png
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> If you want to try by yourself, you can grab the GTK theme from here:
> 
> http://www.foo-projects.org/~olivier/themes/GTK2-Xfce-Tango.tar.bz2
> 
> And set xfdesktop colors to vertical gradient, starting #3E689E, ending
> #3B5B89, with xfce-smoke.png as wallpaper.
> 
> What do you think? Maybe, before giving an opinion, try that setup for a
> few days, like I did. It's very pleasing and usable.

Well...going against the "try it and comment" grain, I like it a lot, it
is simple, clean and pleasing to the eye (well mine at least) I'm going
to take your advice and give it a shot for a few.

--Dan




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