Description: Faience is a Work In Progress that include GTK3, GTK2, Metacity and Gnome-Shell themes and an icon theme based on Faenza.
Support Gnome 3.6 only.
Installation: Extract the zip file and put the 'Faience' folder inside your ~/.themes directory. Use the Gome-Shell theme extension to select Faience theme.
Launchpad PPA Faience GTK, Gnome-shell and icon themes are available to install via a PPA repository. Open a terminal and run :
the background will become white once I selected the Faience as the Gtk+ Theme ,And it can't set any picture as backbround.what i see is just a white backgruond without picture.
Hello
Is there any way to get GTK2.0 apps to change the menu bar color when the window loses focus, like they do in applications like terminal and nautilus?
Really an awesome icon theme. It has become my default choice, after switching to Gnome 3.
I've been missing an icon for Spotify, so I made a simple one:
http://upload.circleofmet.de/files/spotifyfaience.svg
Maybe somebody finds it useful too :). Thanks for your efforts!
Great theme!
@akshay2000; needs Murrine (GTK2) and Unico (GT3) engines to work properly.
Is this theme in any way compatible with gnome 3.6.2? As it seems like none of the gnome-shell CSS theming is working here...
I really love the look of this theme. My GTK theme, however, doesn't look nice at all in Firefox and LibreOffice. The buttons and URL bar look the way they looked in Windows 98! Am I doing something wrong?
I have been trying to install this in fedora 18 but it doesn't work . I installed gnome tweak tool, user extensions everything but when I select the zip file and tweak tool says that installed successful and I chose it from the drop down menu , restart, refresh nothing happens ! How did you install it?
Hi!
Great theme but some of my applications have a diffrent style form others. For example Totem and shotwell are in dark style while the rest of the others in white style... is it possibile to fix that problem?
It is not a bug but a new Gnome feature: some applications can adopt a dark theme for a better visibility of their content (totem, eye of gnome, boxes, etc).
I you don't like it, you can remove the gtk-main-dark.css file in the theme folder.
thanks! i will do it! Only another report... some application when are inactive have a strange look i think is due to menu that them use. If you take for example firefox or vlc if them are inactive there is a big diffrent from the color of the border decoration and their menu... probably because menu is not written in gtk?
Those applications are written in GTK2 which, unlike GTK3, does not support different graphical characteristics for widgets contained in unfocused windows. That is why the menubar color does not change where the window is inactive while the metacity border does.
Hello,
Thank you for this beautiful theme. I've just found a minor typo in file gtk-3.0/gtk-apps.css
> border-image: url("./assets/gedit-pane.svg") 32 1 / 32px 1px stretch;
< border-image: url("../assets/gedit-pane.svg") 32 1 / 32px 1px stretch;
Best regards
Great theme, but if any use it with not english localy, then there will not be switches in the user, network manager, bluetooth panels (top right corner).
The reason is 2 missed files: toggle-on-intl.svg and toggle-off-intl.svg
hope author will fix it easily.
But to fix it right now you just neeed to:
cd ~/.themes/Faience/gnome-shell/assets
cp toggle-on-us.svg toggle-on-intl.svg
cp toggle-off-us.svg toggle-off-intl.svg
the same thing on ubuntu
for me works to copy metacity theme to /usr/share/themes
sudo mkdir /usr/share/themes/Faience
sudo cp -r ~/.themes/Faience/metacity-1 /usr/share/themes/Faience
sudo cp ~/.themes/Faience/index.theme /usr/share/themes/Faience
I love this theme. It made my Gnome-Shell look nice again.
I have a little annoyance though: The GTK2 and GTK3 themes don't match. Gtk2 theme is light but Gtk3 theme is dark.
TIA!
Ratings & Comments
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Care to update the theme for usage with Gnome 3.18?
plan on supporting gnome 3.10 ever?
the background will become white once I selected the Faience as the Gtk+ Theme ,And it can't set any picture as backbround.what i see is just a white backgruond without picture.
Hello Is there any way to get GTK2.0 apps to change the menu bar color when the window loses focus, like they do in applications like terminal and nautilus?
Really an awesome icon theme. It has become my default choice, after switching to Gnome 3. I've been missing an icon for Spotify, so I made a simple one: http://upload.circleofmet.de/files/spotifyfaience.svg Maybe somebody finds it useful too :). Thanks for your efforts!
Great theme! @akshay2000; needs Murrine (GTK2) and Unico (GT3) engines to work properly. Is this theme in any way compatible with gnome 3.6.2? As it seems like none of the gnome-shell CSS theming is working here...
Ya it's working now!
I really love the look of this theme. My GTK theme, however, doesn't look nice at all in Firefox and LibreOffice. The buttons and URL bar look the way they looked in Windows 98! Am I doing something wrong?
@akshay2000; "needs Murrine (GTK2) and Unico (GT3) engines to work properly."
@akshay2000; "needs Murrine (GTK2) and Unico (GT3) engines to work properly."
This is a nice package. Shell and icons look superb. Please keep this theme updated. Thanks.
I loved, beautiful, modern and elegant view.
I have been trying to install this in fedora 18 but it doesn't work . I installed gnome tweak tool, user extensions everything but when I select the zip file and tweak tool says that installed successful and I chose it from the drop down menu , restart, refresh nothing happens ! How did you install it?
Sorry for my delay. Unzip the folder in /usr/share/themes/ or directly to the user in ~/.themes / share.
Hi! Great theme but some of my applications have a diffrent style form others. For example Totem and shotwell are in dark style while the rest of the others in white style... is it possibile to fix that problem?
It is not a bug but a new Gnome feature: some applications can adopt a dark theme for a better visibility of their content (totem, eye of gnome, boxes, etc). I you don't like it, you can remove the gtk-main-dark.css file in the theme folder.
thanks! i will do it! Only another report... some application when are inactive have a strange look i think is due to menu that them use. If you take for example firefox or vlc if them are inactive there is a big diffrent from the color of the border decoration and their menu... probably because menu is not written in gtk?
Those applications are written in GTK2 which, unlike GTK3, does not support different graphical characteristics for widgets contained in unfocused windows. That is why the menubar color does not change where the window is inactive while the metacity border does.
Hello, Thank you for this beautiful theme. I've just found a minor typo in file gtk-3.0/gtk-apps.css > border-image: url("./assets/gedit-pane.svg") 32 1 / 32px 1px stretch; < border-image: url("../assets/gedit-pane.svg") 32 1 / 32px 1px stretch; Best regards
Great theme, but if any use it with not english localy, then there will not be switches in the user, network manager, bluetooth panels (top right corner). The reason is 2 missed files: toggle-on-intl.svg and toggle-off-intl.svg hope author will fix it easily. But to fix it right now you just neeed to: cd ~/.themes/Faience/gnome-shell/assets cp toggle-on-us.svg toggle-on-intl.svg cp toggle-off-us.svg toggle-off-intl.svg
Looks nice, but the window title bar: http://imgur.com/ZT5Qm Is this right?
the same thing on ubuntu for me works to copy metacity theme to /usr/share/themes sudo mkdir /usr/share/themes/Faience sudo cp -r ~/.themes/Faience/metacity-1 /usr/share/themes/Faience sudo cp ~/.themes/Faience/index.theme /usr/share/themes/Faience
Works, indeed. I'd not thought of making changes outside my home. Thanks.
I love this theme. It made my Gnome-Shell look nice again. I have a little annoyance though: The GTK2 and GTK3 themes don't match. Gtk2 theme is light but Gtk3 theme is dark. TIA!
Doesn't work on ubuntu 12.04 with gnome 3.5