Default Theme

[ray]

Salix currently uses Clearlooks as the default theme.
Although clearlooks does look nice, it does feel very dated and not really elegant

I'd like to suggest using Equinox as the default theme going forward.



Although this might not be everyone's choice, it'll atleast have a discussion started

Cheers,
ray

[thenktor]

Equinox needs an aditional gtk engine. Both are available here: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ ... ent=121881

[ray]

@thenktor
Yes, i have been using it for quite some time now.
If i wasnt clear enough, i made this thread to propose it as the salix default theme inplace of clearlooks.

Cheers,
ray

[thenktor]

If i wasnt clear enough, i made this thread to propose it as the salix default theme inplace of clearlooks.

I know I'm not a Clearlooks fan, too. But to be honest: One thing that open source really lacks are good theme designers. Most themes I've used so far have some flaws here or there.
I'll test this Equinox theme though.

[ray]

I know I'm not a Clearlooks fan, too. But to be honest: One thing that open source really lacks are good theme designers. Most themes I've used so far have some flaws here or there.
I'll test this Equinox theme though.

Heh, i tend to change themes around whenever there's something new
But, i've stuck with equinox from the day i've tried it.

The icon theme Faenza, by the same guy is very good too.
You could try that too.



Cheers,
ray

[thenktor]

Nice one, switched to it for now. IMHO the scrollbars are not optimal in Equinox.

[zAchAry]

I've used this set of icons too, for a while (proof [1] [2])
But if you guys like it, then make a package for it.

These icons and the current in my opinion, weight too much, comparing to the size of SalixOS

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58M     gnome
3.0M    gnome-brave
16M     gnome-colors-common
3.0M    gnome-dust
3.0M    gnome-human
3.0M    gnome-illustrious
3.0M    gnome-noble
3.0M    gnome-wine
3.0M    gnome-wise
94M     total

Note: If you'll remove this icon pack (GNOME-colors) I'll reinstall it, since this is a must have. And ,for the record, more than a year ago I was one of the first users that suggested to the Xubuntu team/managers (or "policy makers", they were very vague and unreachable) to provide by default a pack of GNOME-colors icons (link to one deleted thread).
But still, this (comparing to the size of the distro) is pretty big, don't you think?

Besides you really need to modify the current packs because some icons are obsolete (for instance: Baobab (Disk Usage Analyzer) which is not even available at the GSB repositories...) and there's no shortcut to an archive icon for .txz files... etc.
You can reduce the size (I bet by a few MBs) of the current packs. let's start with how to make the current icon packs flawless.

Just my non-experienced opinion...
And, maybe, a lightweight distro like Salix need to have, by default, icon packs that will not weight more than 50MB and yet, very eye/sight/view/user friendly.

[ray]

@zAchAry,

Not sure where you got those sizes, gslapt says gnome-icon-theme weighs in at 8778K.

And, I'm not suggesting that we replace the icon theme with faenza. Merely suggesting it to thenktor.
I was only suggesting Equinox gtk theme.

Cheers,
ray

[zAchAry]

@zAchAry,

Not sure where you got those sizes, gslapt says gnome-icon-theme weighs in at 8778K.

I checked it with

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$ du -chs /usr/share/icons/gnome /usr/share/icons/gnome-colors-common

And, I'm not suggesting that we replace the icon theme with faenza. Merely suggesting it to thenktor.
I was only suggesting Equinox gtk theme.

Cheers,
ray

I figured why not posting it here since I was thinking about these small problems with the icons set and I couldn't think how when and where to post it

[ray]

Nice one, switched to it for now. IMHO the scrollbars are not optimal in Equinox.

We could tweak it for Salix and have scrollbars from murrine or even pixmap ones.
I could do the tweaks if someone suggested some

Cheers,
ray