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Published: 2010-12-20 14:31:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 9505; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 1605
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After modding Firefox a lot I thought it was a good idea to start modding with nautilus!This Screenshot is not photoshopped and a really working desktop!
Mods I did:
-New toolbar background with the shadow from marlin mockup.
-Back&Forward combined like at a mac and it is not the up-button trick but real working buttons!
-Darker pane sizer(not a big change...)
I hope you like it
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Comments: 131
That's sick bro, keep on doing the great work! I'm looking forward to some GTK theme release from you!
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IΒ΄m working at one but I haven got able to get a name in mind yet...
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Wow, I was just going to try figuring this out myself, but got too lazy so I never got round to it.
Can you send me your modded gtk theme for this? I'd really like to know how you did this. It looks great 
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not very hard just put the buttons as on the toolbar background(pixmap) and then put the glups of the buttons as icons for the back and forward
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hm, when its released iΒ΄ll install ubuntu again..
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That is awesome!! Buttons looks great, and your whole desktop is beautifully elementary
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and how to remove the left slider at nautilus-elementary or hide it?
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Left slider? you mean in pathbar?
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yup the the left slider in pathbar(with the arrow)...how to kill it?
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I think you could make it invisible with transparent background and transparent arrow in pixmap. But then what will you do with normal breadcrumbs buttons? First button will be "open" from one side.
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I wanted to plant a homebutton like the mockups on the toolbar pixmap and then just add the homefolder toolbar item with a blank icon
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Unfortunately homefolder icon isn't changeable with stock["gtk-home"] command, and i have no clue how to change it, without messing with icon theme :-/
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thats a bit sad I tried it myself and even I fail....maybe it has a widget name like the modebutton that can be found inside the bzr source of nautilus-elementary.
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Hmm. I've managed to make left slider to look like that: [link]
Of course it's possible to make it completely invisible, but it will still be there. I'll try to make something with this home button.
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and do you know any way btw to only change the back and forward behaviour?
because with my widget_class
(widget_class "*Nautilus*Toolbar*Button" style "toolbuttons")
it removes the border when hovered(toolbar button with no effects 
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I've never heard of possibility to theme only one or two buttons :-/
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sad but I know the all have their own widget name but the @$@$@$%@% gnome developers are to sick to put it into a simple wiki
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It may sound silly but have you tried *forward*button/*back*button ?
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I did it without using the up button muhahahaha....xD
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This evil laughter - now it's clear that you are one of those mad geniuses
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icons...
not so hard as it sounds:
the button background is just pert of the toolbar background pixmap and the glyps on the buttons are the icons
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so if the nautilus toolbar is configured to have something else here instead of these buttons the "buttons frame" would still be painted, right?
At least, that is the only way possible with current gtk to get that look.
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yea but when I have nonthing there and pathbar only, the pathbar overlays them perfectly.
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Sure yeah
think that the buttons act kind of... ...dead? Let's hope gtk3 brings us the possibility
of having connected toolbuttons like qt does
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I just need to know what the exact widget classes of the buttons are(back and forward) and I can skin them just like at my firefox by using the border images and a blank icon but I don know the classes
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Have you tried browsing the nautilus source?
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nope where can I find that?
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Huh? have you tried with your package manager installing
nautilus-source?
Eg, in obontu should be smth like aptitude install nautilus-source
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yea but I don wanna directly install A LOT
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errrrr, you wanted to know the classes of some widgets
in nautilus, looking it up in the source is the best
way to find those out...
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yea but also the way it takes the most time
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okey.... have you tried the eXperience hinter then?
That one I used back in the day when I was still themeing
gtk
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eXperience hinter?
Gimme link
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[sarcasm]
it's good to see noobs are eager to do a little research
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link: [link]
instructions from the gtkrc group on gnome look where this was
discussed:
1.) Just do install experience
2.) use whatever default experience theme.
3.) Run your_X_application from a terminal like this:
export EXPERIENCE_PRINT_WIDGET_PATH=TRUE; your_X_application
-> The first time you should see the basics appearing on the terminal. Then the widgets will start appearing by class ID etc as you click/handle them.
instruction provided by code933k.
knock yourself out.
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it works but it fails at nautilus because nautilus needs to be killed first...(IΒ΄m now trying with system monitor)
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huh??? first you install engine, then you select the
theme that comes with the engine, then you run nautilus
from the terminal like njaaah:
export EXPERIENCE_PRINT_WIDGET_PATH=TRUE; nautilus
and ofc you have to end nautilus first, otherwise it
just starts a new instance (window) of nautilus :-|
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the problem is nautilus gets restarted after killing it...
So I installed the xubuntu desktop to have no nautilus at start xD
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...so you have it working now and see the classes outputed in the terminal?
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nope canΒ΄t get able to fully kill nautilus and rerun it with terminal
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have you checked your sessions? maybe nautilus is
there and there is some daemon that automatically
starts it if not running?
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yup I did but I first need to reinstall linux again after my harddrive died some time ago
I'm working at this moment on a windows project and when thats done I will continue the windows ones
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Hmm... still, i don't know how did you make them to be so close to each other. And there is only one line dividing them.
As they say: curiousity killed the cat - so i won't ask more question and try to figure it out on my own
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even easier: I will note you the theme
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