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Description
Version 0.7.5 :This theme is a collaboration between me and MonkeyMagico whose mock up was the initial inspiration behind Atolm.
You will need the murrine, pixbuf and equinox gtk engines to use this theme. The AwOken icon theme is also highly recommended as is Nautilus Elementary.
Installation :
PPA :
Make sure you have uninstalled any older versions of the theme before installing via ppa. For good measure type on a terminal :
rm -R ~/.themes/Atolm
to install the Equinox gtk engine (provided by Tiheum ) :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-equinox
to install Atolm :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nikount/orta-desktop
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install atolm-theme
to install the Atolm xfwm4 decorators :
sudo apt-get install atolm-xfwm4-decorators
to install the Atolm emerald decorator :
sudo apt-get install atolm-emerald-decorators
Manual Installation :
just extract the contents of the zip file somewhere and drag and drop the Atolm.tar.gz and Atolm-Squared.tar.gz to the Appearance Preferences window (again, make sure you have uninstalled any previous version first). You can also install the emerald theme via the Emerald Theme Manager.
Customization :
If you prefer the old tabs, edit the gtkrc file (found inside ~/.themes/Atolm/gtk-2.0/ or /usr/share/themes/Atolm/gtk-2.0/ if you have installed via ppa) and replace the line :
include "Styles/tabs1.rc"
with this:
include "Styles/tabs.rc"
If you don't use Nautilus Elementary, edit the gtkrc and make this line:
include "Apps/nautilus-elementary.rc"
look like this:
#include "Apps/nautilus-elementary.rc"
OpenOffice and most other Gtk apps now have a different base and text color than the rest of the theme. This is unavoidable if you want to have a usable OpenOffice. If you want to have a unified look, you can make all Gtk apps follow the same settings by setting the Input Boxes background color to 5C5C5C and the Input Boxes text color to ECECEC.
License :
GPL3
Thanks :
I would like to thank my partner in crime, MonkeyMagico , JurialMunkey for his valuable feedback and advice, Sword1ne for his amazing wallpaper and all of you that keep supporting my work
Changelog :
- Squared Metacity decorator added.
- Xfwm4 normal and squared decorators added.
- Emerald decorator added.
- Text color of the contact name on the pidgin messaging window fixed.
- Text color of the JDownloader exit dialog and progressbars fixed.
- Text visibility of titles and quotes with lLiferea fixed.
- Firefox entry dark text on dark color bug on some sites fixed.
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Comments: 183
sahwar [2011-01-30 23:25:59 +0000 UTC]
Man, ~SkiesOfAzel , your themes for Gnome's GTK2 are brilliant! So lean, clean, minimalistic and pleasant... no wonder people say that a great system look (visual style, skin, theme, etc.) is a must-have for every usable OS.
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SkiesOfAzel In reply to sahwar [2011-01-31 15:59:22 +0000 UTC]
Thanks mate, i am glad you like my work!
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gummybelly [2011-01-26 12:04:06 +0000 UTC]
dark themes are a pain in gnome, but this looks very nice and smooth.
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SkiesOfAzel In reply to hostister [2011-01-19 22:04:27 +0000 UTC]
Yep, i love those Gothenburg bastards!
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samuel174 [2011-01-18 23:39:04 +0000 UTC]
it is perfect! exactly what i was looking for! thank you so much!
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psion01 In reply to ??? [2011-01-14 20:48:15 +0000 UTC]
Skies, I got turned onto your theme by this Tech Drive-In article: [link]
This is my hands-down favorite. Well done!
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Mystilleef [2011-01-14 06:52:48 +0000 UTC]
I just want to say thank you for such high quality themes. Atolm and Orta are my favorite themes. I love them!
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desprosal [2011-01-13 09:00:15 +0000 UTC]
Is it possible to make the Expander something brighter? If I have an entry in a tree and mark the entry has an expander, then the expander is difficult to see.
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SkiesOfAzel In reply to desprosal [2011-01-13 15:03:31 +0000 UTC]
The problem with expanders is that sometimes they have a light background and sometimes a dark background, so they aren't always visible. I will look into it but it won't be easy to fix this.
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desprosal In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2011-01-18 19:39:02 +0000 UTC]
And if you use a narrow white border? Similar to the checkboxes.
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SkiesOfAzel In reply to desprosal [2011-01-18 19:43:30 +0000 UTC]
The expanders aren't pixmaps, they are drawn by the murrine engine and i'd like to avoid using the pixbuf engine as much as i can.
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desprosal In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2011-01-18 21:09:30 +0000 UTC]
Somewhere there is always a hook.
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SkiesOfAzel In reply to desprosal [2011-01-12 19:46:42 +0000 UTC]
It looks fine here, can you provide a screenshot?
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desprosal In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2011-01-13 09:07:21 +0000 UTC]
Sorry, no. The problem seems fixed. I changed the background color of the editor directly in Eclipse.
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desprosal [2011-01-10 12:07:52 +0000 UTC]
Great theme, thank you
I use GDM2Setup 0.5.3 for setting the GDM theme. The theme "Atolm" appears unfortunately not in the list.
Furthermore, the applet "file browser" in the Avant Window Navigator crashes .
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SkiesOfAzel In reply to desprosal [2011-01-10 13:07:28 +0000 UTC]
GDM2Setup probably only searches in /usr/share/themes m that's why it doesn't detect Atolm. As for the file browser applet, it works fine in my box with Atolm and awn from the awn-testing ppa.
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relaxed1 [2011-01-08 20:40:27 +0000 UTC]
Really love this theme! There are a few issues I've ran into that I hope you can look at. When running JDownloader (a java client) you can't see urls that are added. The text color is the same as the background. Also, if you go fileserve.com (using firefox 3.6.13) the same thing happens. Use the Browse button and select anything on your pc, once selected you can't see it until you highlight it with your mouse.
Thanks for your hard work on this
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SkiesOfAzel In reply to relaxed1 [2011-01-09 14:03:25 +0000 UTC]
Jdownloader and Firefox aren't gtk apps, so these bugs might be unfixable. Java apps in particular don't play nice at all with gtk.
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relaxed1 In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2011-01-09 17:12:59 +0000 UTC]
Ok, I just wanted to point out these issues. Thanks again for the theme!
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SkiesOfAzel In reply to relaxed1 [2011-01-10 03:53:38 +0000 UTC]
The firefox bug is fixable . As for Jdownloader, the url text seems visible to me [link] , are you perhaps talking about another part of the ui from the one in the screenshot?
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relaxed1 In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2011-01-10 08:25:05 +0000 UTC]
That's strange... The same "Add Url(s)" window is all dark gray for me. Plus, when I click on File -> Exit in JDownloader, the "please confirm" window pops up but I can't see the text in the window that says, "Are you sure you want to exit JDownloader?"
To double check that I was using the latest version of Atolm I `rm -rf ~/.themes/Atolm` and re-downloaded/installed. Perhaps the version you're using is modified?
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SkiesOfAzel In reply to relaxed1 [2011-01-10 13:08:40 +0000 UTC]
It might indeed be a happy accident . I also managed to fix the progressbar and exit dialog text color
.
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relaxed1 In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2011-01-10 16:49:52 +0000 UTC]
\o/ yay! I hope you release the fixed version soon
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justnice980 [2011-01-06 15:29:51 +0000 UTC]
Also, i really like the looks of the awn theme. got a link?
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SkiesOfAzel In reply to justnice980 [2011-01-06 16:01:31 +0000 UTC]
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justnice980 In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2011-01-06 16:19:35 +0000 UTC]
awesome, you rock. btw, a few of my friends who are also linux users saw the theme and instantly asked me where to get it. kudos, great job!!
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justnice980 [2011-01-06 04:00:17 +0000 UTC]
what would that wallpaper be? it looks rather intriguing.
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fungt [2011-01-05 14:33:08 +0000 UTC]
Great work, I really love your theme. The only thing that bug me is that the openoffice fix seems not applicable to libreoffice, so the background of libreoffice (writer, calc etc) is still dark gray. [link]
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SkiesOfAzel In reply to fungt [2011-01-10 03:58:35 +0000 UTC]
I just installed libreoffice to test it and the text is white on a gray background, so the fix is working. If you don't like the colors, just go to Options -> Appearance and set the colors you like.
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SkiesOfAzel In reply to fungt [2011-01-05 14:46:26 +0000 UTC]
That might actually be good news, meaning that they probably have changed the toplevel widget to something other than GtkWindow which will allow per application settings for libreoffice. I will have to check it out, thanks for pointing this out to me.
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alecive [2011-01-04 08:04:44 +0000 UTC]
Great work! One of the best themes ever! I'll add it to custom-linux group, if you give me the permission to do it..
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gyanny In reply to ??? [2011-01-03 21:49:47 +0000 UTC]
My Maverick is like a beautiful woman now
BRAVISSIMO!!!
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LinuxNoob123456 In reply to ??? [2011-01-03 20:22:33 +0000 UTC]
Great theme. But the menus in Open Office are still unreadable(same background and text color).
Thanks for this awesome theme
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SkiesOfAzel In reply to LinuxNoob123456 [2011-01-03 20:42:22 +0000 UTC]
You have an older version, the current version doesn't have this problem.
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LinuxNoob123456 In reply to ??? [2011-01-03 20:21:41 +0000 UTC]
Great theme, but for some reason the menu's in open office have the same font color as the background(i.e. they are unreadable).
Thanks for this awesome theme
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