Updated Openbox Ambiance and Radiance type themes for Ubuntu 10.10
Making Openbox themes to match other themes is sometimes sort of fun, sometimes futile, but you do it anyway, think of the children. Some time ago I tried (for the greater good!) to make a pair of themes to go with Ubuntu’s Ambiance and Radiance, I’m not a big fan of these themes, personally, I find the lack of obvious focused window sort of irritating. The results were ‘OK’ but by no means stunning, so of course with such wild success last time I decided to follow suit with the newer ‘Maverick’ updates to said themes. They have the same mixed success. They both ‘fit’ and do not look wildly out of place, but they also have glaring omissions (red close button, roundness, opacity etc)
looky here:
http://david.chalkskeletons.com/files/pics/am_mav_ob0.png
http://david.chalkskeletons.com/files/pics/rad_mav_ob0.png
http://david.chalkskeletons.com/files/themes/Ambiance_ob_test.obt
http://david.chalkskeletons.com/files/themes/Radiance_ob_test.obt
Zenity get_iplayer
Ages ago for reasons best forgotten I made a tiny zenity script that will basically list BBC shows and let you click to download them, it ain’t fancy, but I seem to still use it, and I’ve never bothered to work on it anymore:
http://github.com/mulberry/zeniplayer
It still looks lame:
http://david.chalkskeletons.com/files/pics/zeniplayer2.png
I think I spent far more time on the icons than the script.
Elementary
More procrastination instead of doing what i am supposed to i did this:
Screenshot (sort of)
It’s an openbox version of the Elementary theme
Openbox Ambiance
To conclude my flirtation with ubuntu themes for openbox here is Ambiance:
I’m not really that in love with either of the themes, and i’m not sure how well they have really work within the openbox theme system, but it’s nice to have stuff that matches, right?
Ecroob GTK Theme
As an optimist, I assume that the reason no one really likes my Ecru theme is because it uses the gtk mist engine (not that it is shit). So to remedy this I’ve gone the complete other way and made a murrine engine version, and you’ll need git murrine I think, as we speak.
