New theme proposal

[Stephan Arts]

On 7/17/06, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> 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.
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> As we more or less standardize on Tango, I'd prefer something along
> those lines:
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> http://www.foo-projects.org/~olivier/screenshots/Xfce-Tango-proposal.png

I like it, one question though. where can i get that icon-theme?
Can you add it to svn?

> If you want to try by yourself, you can grab the GTK theme from here:
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> http://www.foo-projects.org/~olivier/themes/GTK2-Xfce-Tango.tar.bz2
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> And set xfdesktop colors to vertical gradient, starting #3E689E, ending
> #3B5B89, with xfce-smoke.png as wallpaper.
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> 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.

A few days?!

I agree it is a huge change to the old one, but i like it already.
I needed some ajusting to the different contrast between the desktop
and the window-border. At first it seems a bit weird. But after a
while it feels natural.

I think it is really nice.

> Cheers,
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>    - Olivier

Stephan