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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

minimalisticdesign [2011-01-03 18:37:20 +0000 UTC]

Fantistic design! Can you also make one that is a 'bit' lighter gray? That would be awesome!!!!

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to minimalisticdesign [2011-01-03 18:51:05 +0000 UTC]

You can do it yourself:
- Launch gnome-appearance-properties press customize
- Goto the colors tab and change the windows background color to 4c4c4c.
- Profit

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minimalisticdesign In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2011-01-04 12:25:50 +0000 UTC]

Ahh ok thanks, i'll try it

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SamDeRe81 In reply to ??? [2011-01-03 10:22:55 +0000 UTC]

It appears to be a version of Cold?

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Maligno83 [2011-01-02 12:00:57 +0000 UTC]

Only one thing I noticed problems with some applications like emesene readability, how can I fix this?

This is a screen [link]

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to Maligno83 [2011-01-02 13:01:00 +0000 UTC]

I will fix those for you.

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Maligno83 In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2011-01-02 13:36:27 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to Maligno83 [2011-01-03 01:55:44 +0000 UTC]

Bad news, the text color in question seems to be hardcoded.

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Maligno83 In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2011-01-03 10:39:23 +0000 UTC]

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Mito94 [2011-01-02 10:38:46 +0000 UTC]

awesome theme!

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simplygades In reply to ??? [2011-01-01 17:01:01 +0000 UTC]

The theme is really nice, congratulations..but for one single reason I can't use it as defult on my netbook. Performance ( however I suppose you know that already ) , browsing drop-down lists and menus is kind of slow. Otherwise, γαμάτο dark theme.

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to simplygades [2011-01-01 18:03:06 +0000 UTC]

You will love the next update

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Ubuntico In reply to ??? [2011-01-01 16:31:23 +0000 UTC]

Another masterpiece

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to Ubuntico [2011-01-01 18:03:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks mate

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lethal2 In reply to ??? [2011-01-01 10:21:13 +0000 UTC]

Wow, it's a really nice dark theme! Good work

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to lethal2 [2011-01-01 15:19:07 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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ammonkey In reply to ??? [2011-01-01 09:25:24 +0000 UTC]

sweat!

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to ammonkey [2011-01-01 15:18:15 +0000 UTC]

Thanks mate . I am also glad to see rhythm-e progressing, you rock !

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adni18 In reply to ??? [2010-12-31 18:49:49 +0000 UTC]

Great work!

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to adni18 [2011-01-01 15:14:55 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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GamerWorld14 In reply to ??? [2010-12-31 17:48:42 +0000 UTC]

I love the freedom you have when it comes to using linux. Great looking theme!

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to GamerWorld14 [2011-01-01 15:14:40 +0000 UTC]

Linux ftw

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GamerWorld14 In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2011-01-01 22:24:08 +0000 UTC]

haha, yeah.

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lordnaastik In reply to ??? [2010-12-31 15:31:23 +0000 UTC]

Awesome dark theme. Btw whaths the dock? docky or awn?

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to lordnaastik [2011-01-01 15:14:28 +0000 UTC]

The dock is awn, i've been using it since Neil published the first alpha version.

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justnice980 [2010-12-31 15:28:28 +0000 UTC]

i definitely like it. not to sure about the bright white terminal window though. kind of hard on the eyes. may want to go with a gray transparent.

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to justnice980 [2011-01-01 15:13:36 +0000 UTC]

I will add some transparency for the next update, thanks for the recommendation

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justnice980 [2010-12-31 15:24:20 +0000 UTC]

looks pretty awesome. i'm gonna give it a go.

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kurty77 In reply to ??? [2010-12-31 15:07:25 +0000 UTC]

This is really great. Do you have a recommended login screen to go with this? Thanks.

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to kurty77 [2011-01-01 15:12:53 +0000 UTC]

I think you can set your gdm to use a gtk theme with this application.

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Naf71 In reply to ??? [2010-12-31 10:33:06 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic job mate!

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to Naf71 [2011-01-01 15:06:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks !

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Mystilleef In reply to ??? [2010-12-30 21:21:54 +0000 UTC]

An emerald window manager theme would be really appreciated.

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to Mystilleef [2010-12-31 01:34:32 +0000 UTC]

I will give it a shot.

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Mystilleef In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2011-01-01 08:21:45 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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RoboSloNE In reply to ??? [2010-12-30 20:26:56 +0000 UTC]

Nice!

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mmesantos1 In reply to ??? [2010-12-30 18:19:48 +0000 UTC]

Another nice theme, you are making this a habit.

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molecule-eye [2010-12-30 16:58:49 +0000 UTC]

Where's the color?!

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to molecule-eye [2010-12-30 17:17:03 +0000 UTC]

I was going for a monochrome look that would be as easy on the eyes as possible after long hours of looking at your screen. Maybe i went too far ?

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justnice980 In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2011-01-06 03:42:10 +0000 UTC]

no way. it's perfectly dark. just the way i like it. aw0ken really compliments it as well.

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Izobalax In reply to ??? [2010-12-30 16:38:21 +0000 UTC]

Looks pretty good, but I'm always suspicious of dark themes (incompatibility with various widgets in various web browsers as well as other applications etc., etc.).

I shall give it a try. Happy New Year, man. =]

/izo\

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to Izobalax [2010-12-30 17:15:08 +0000 UTC]

Right now it has some problems with openoffice, evolution and opera but i will fix them.

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Izobalax In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2010-12-30 17:25:31 +0000 UTC]

Fair enough. =] I've had a little play with it and it's rather nice, I'd be tempted to change the light grey used for the text background though.

/izo\

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to Izobalax [2010-12-30 17:30:53 +0000 UTC]

And please don't hesitate to point out other shortcomings, i need this kind of feedback to improve the theme.

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to Izobalax [2010-12-30 17:29:13 +0000 UTC]

Which color do you think would be more suited to it? I tried darker colors but the contrast was blinding with blue text in gedit. Lighter tones on the other hand contrasted with the window color too much, so i'd appreciate your input .

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Izobalax In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2010-12-30 17:35:58 +0000 UTC]

It IS tricky, I agree. Personally, I would've gone with a colour similar to the one used for the tab inlay box background. Either that, or match the backgrounds all around. This is why theming dark themes is so tricky!

/izo\

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to Izobalax [2010-12-31 01:29:37 +0000 UTC]

I've tried that and it makes some text colors unreadable and others too bright. This would actually help me eliminate all of the text color bugs with non gtk apps, but i avoided it for the aforementioned reason. I will have to experiment more with it.

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Izobalax In reply to SkiesOfAzel [2010-12-31 02:06:44 +0000 UTC]

Well, you're never going to be able to please everyone when developing a UI or a theme, so it's up to you guys, really, to decide what purpose this theme's for. Are you developing something to saver coders' eyes? Something for those who love bling? It's clear that a variety of legible text colours is important for yourself, whereas that wouldn't have been a consideration for me.

/izo\

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SkiesOfAzel In reply to Izobalax [2011-01-03 23:27:06 +0000 UTC]

Bling is nice but basic usability (like text editing) is always my top concern, so the text contrast issues are very important to me. Besides, a dark theme isn't exactly bling friendly as i see it, the purpose of dark themes IMO is to be easy on the eyes after extended periods of pc usage.

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kalitoz In reply to ??? [2010-12-30 16:19:17 +0000 UTC]

great work! thanks!

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