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Oxygen-Molecule is a theme for GTK+ applications to provide a uniform look when used under the KDE 4.4 desktop environment. It was originally based on the kde4.2-oxygen (modified) 0.3 GTK theme by Dennis Schmitz (which was itself based on work originally by Kim Kahns) (url: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/kde4.2-oxygen+(modified)?content=99926)
On top of the original theme, I have made the following changes:
- changed colors to match default KDE 4.4 color scheme, including hue adjustment of all pixmaps
- reworked all of the pixmaps and changed measurements for improved visual appearance
- created new spinner buttons, since the original spinners often looked mismatched with the surrounding pixmaps
- linked the GTK theme with the Oxygen icon set (thank you Craig Drummond for showing me how to do this).
In addition, beginning with version 3.1, Oxygen-Molecule features a “flat” mode which disables the background gradient. Some GTK+ apps don't play nice with the background gradient used in the default Oxygen-Molecule theme, causing patches of the wrong shade of grey to appear in the background. Oxygen-Molecule's flat mode solves this problem, and can be enabled on a per-application basis.
Additional documentation and installation instructions are included in the download.
I am also providing my source graphics files (created with GIMP) for anyone who wants to try making their own color variants.
Notes for the source graphics files: layer names in square brackets indicate the color from the KDE color scheme. There are many graphics files missing... for these, you will just need to edit the theme PNG files (not included in source graphics download--get them from the theme).
Good luck!
9 years ago
7-29-2010: Added COPYING file to archive.
3.2:
- Redesigned color scheme to use less extreme shading. This looks better for both KDE and GTK+ apps, in my opinion, and also helps everything to blend a little better. For users upgrading from version 3.1 or earlier, please set your KDE color shading to 50% (see step 7 in the installation guide).
- Tweaked menubar gradient to look better for wider windows, but at the expense of the appearance of narrower ones. My reasoning is that most people use their GTK apps either fullscreen or as large windows.
- Adjusted the size of the active menubar item selector, and further fine-tuned the color of the menu item selector.
3.1:
- Added new "flat" mode, which removes the background gradient from windows and tabs.
- Fixed the tree view colors.
- Increased spacing between tabs to better match the Oxygen theme.
3.0:
- Updated theme to match KDE 4.4 widgets and shading.
- Almost all pixmaps were completely redone.
- Countless tweaks, including thinner buttons and entry boxes, new spinner buttons and better tab spacing.
- Removed unnecessary clearlooks reference.
- Changed theme install location in documentation from /usr/share/themes to /usr/local/share/themes.
Further changes are listed in the documentation included with the theme.
9 years ago
7-29-2010: Added COPYING file to archive.
3.2:
- Redesigned color scheme to use less extreme shading. This looks better for both KDE and GTK+ apps, in my opinion, and also helps everything to blend a little better. For users upgrading from version 3.1 or earlier, please set your KDE color shading to 50% (see step 7 in the installation guide).
- Tweaked menubar gradient to look better for wider windows, but at the expense of the appearance of narrower ones. My reasoning is that most people use their GTK apps either fullscreen or as large windows.
- Adjusted the size of the active menubar item selector, and further fine-tuned the color of the menu item selector.
3.1:
- Added new "flat" mode, which removes the background gradient from windows and tabs.
- Fixed the tree view colors.
- Increased spacing between tabs to better match the Oxygen theme.
3.0:
- Updated theme to match KDE 4.4 widgets and shading.
- Almost all pixmaps were completely redone.
- Countless tweaks, including thinner buttons and entry boxes, new spinner buttons and better tab spacing.
- Removed unnecessary clearlooks reference.
- Changed theme install location in documentation from /usr/share/themes to /usr/local/share/themes.
Further changes are listed in the documentation included with the theme.
InforMed
10 years ago
Theme is almost perfect! I just don't like how checkboxes look on firefox!
Gmail checkboxes looks ugly...
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whashnez
10 years ago
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MrBumpy4096
10 years ago
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ppraveen
10 years ago
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Dhraakellian
10 years ago
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Nikoli
10 years ago
Do not forget to remove dolphin's ".directory" files before making archives.
Wrote ebuild:
http://nikoli.msk.ru/pub/portage-overlay/x11-themes/gtk-theme-oxygen/
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261874
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adrianojbr
10 years ago
Adriano.
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gabrielbutoeru
10 years ago
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MrBumpy4096
10 years ago
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warnec
10 years ago
It may be due to the fact that you use pixbuf engine, right? Is there any chance to fix/workaround this? Maybe change to qtcurve engine?
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MrBumpy4096
10 years ago
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warnec
10 years ago
Ok, so with the Nitrogen bar I use:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Nitrogen?content=99551
there are settings like "radial blending" and "no blending"
when "radial blending" is set, it is possible to get such a look like in here:
http://kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=99551&file1=99551-1.png&file2=99551-2.png&file3=99551-3.png&name=Nitrogen
so that there is no visible difference between the window top bar and the window content below. Of course, it only works for qt4 apps. GTK apps's window bars look worse (non-blended)
There is an option "no blending", which effects are exactly opposite - GTK apps's bars look nicely blended and qt4 apps' bars look bad.
Fortunately, Nitrogen allows to specify different settings to windows with a user-specified window class. That way I was able to set No Blending to window classes of all GTK apps I use, and I had a nice look in all windows.
But in only worked for QtCurve GTK theme. For your theme, it doesn't work. With No Blending, GTK apps' bars are much darker than the rest of the window - setting all windows (the GTK as well) to Radial Blending makes them look a little better, but there still is a color difference.
Can supply you with comparison screenshots, if you like ;)
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warnec
10 years ago
http://kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=103741&file1=103741-1.png&file2=103741-2.png&file3=&name=Oxygen-Molecule+KDE+%26+GTK%2B+unified+theme
I think it's just what you achieved (when I look on the Firefox window in the background)
No idea how you managed that. Maybe it's a difference between the Ozone/Nitrogen bar? I reckon you use Ozone?
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MrBumpy4096
10 years ago
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warnec
10 years ago
BUT...
there are still some slight color differences :P
Sorry to bug you, but still can see it ;)
(Well, you could expect that from a guy who sees a difference between 57 and 60 FPS... really!)
See here:
http://img514.yfrog.com/img514/3057/ffbar.png
Oh, and BTW, are you sure your color scheme is the same as the default one? It is much brighter than the one I had listed as "Default". And, of course, my "Default" color theme and your GTK theme don't really like each other...
PS.: With QtCurve, the titlebar is blended perfectly both with your color scheme and mine default one...
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MrBumpy4096
10 years ago
QtCurve is definitely a lot more flexible when it comes to colors, but there is no way to make it emulate the Oxygen theme.
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takanowaka
10 years ago
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MrBumpy4096
10 years ago
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takanowaka
10 years ago
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Montblanc
10 years ago
I hope you'll manage to fix the small known bugs, until then I'll keep following you!
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MrBumpy4096
10 years ago
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MrBumpy4096
10 years ago
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sxe
10 years ago
What does direct linking to oxygen icons mean? Does the theme use the selected icon set or always oxygen? I ask cause i use a different icon set and it would be nice to have them in my gtk apps too.
Anyway thx for your great work.
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MrBumpy4096
10 years ago
If you don't already know, you comment out a line by putting a '#' at the beginning of it.
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zuargo
10 years ago
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