Description: Orion is a modern light theme for Gnome. It supports Gnome, Unity, Pantheon, XFCE and Openbox. The theme is compatible with GTK 3.6. It also includes a GTK 2.0 theme using Murrine engine.
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Ubuntu users can install Orion from our themes PPA using the following commands,
11.06.2012 - Granite Widgets support (expect better compatibility with elementary apps), fixed tootips in empathy
02.06.2012 - Rewrite metacity themes to remove weird borders, dropped styling for unfocused windows, minor improvements
26.05.2012 - Rewrite mutter and metacity themes to fix roundness and border issues, fixed text color in system settings, fixes to fallback mode panel, removed pixbuf engine dependency
22.05.2012 - Fixed a typo in gtk-widgets-backdrops.css, fixed menubar text color in fallbackmode panel
11.05.2012 - Fixed selected background in nautilus, improvements to mutter/metacity
07.05.2012 - Fixed appearance in System Settings, improved tab design
07.04.2012 - Fixed glitches in the dark theme, adjusted tooltip style in GTK2 to match more with GTK3
06.04.2012 - Title text is now properly centered (mutter), support hiding of titlebar in apps like gnome documents (mutter), support dark theme in apps like movie player, lighter text in sidebar
05.04.2012 - Improved sidebar view, added support for beatbox, added openbox theme
04.04.2012 - Updated for Gnome 3.4
03.02.2012 - Added steppers to scrollbar, fixed desktop mode font color
01.02.2012 - Minor improvemwnts
29.01.2012 - Added mutter theme, support for xfwm, improvements to metacity theme
First of all I think you did a great job with this theme and I hope you'll maintain it for a long time.
Second I would like to say that I think the scroll bar is a little narrow and could be (almost) as the width of the square decoration.
And about the decoration I think on the mouse hoover effect you could add a minus [ - ] a plus [ + ] and an x [ x ] for minimize, maximize/restore and close, like a mac style. Or you could add that not just for the hoover effect but the default, either way I think is a good ideea.
Just look at it, it looks great: [ - ] [ + ] [ x ]
or ... [-] [+] [x]
Or make available the decoration for both options if you think it's a good ideea, with and without hoover effect signs/indicators.
Thanks for the theme !
As an expression of thanks for this elegant theme, I would like to share my thoughts on 2 potential areas for improvement:
1) Colors of window control buttons: the colors we see when hovering could be red, amber and green (this is already there) although I'm not a fan of Mac. The fact that they are all blue until you hover on them is creative and different enough and better than Mac, I think.
2) In Nautilus (without the menu bar) the title bar and path/tool bar could perhaps be more compatible with each other. This might be mostly because of the design of Nautilus. Isn't it possible to have just a frame around the files and folders window and nothing in between the title bar, side bar and path/tool bar?
Hi. I get the following error when trying to preview your theme,
Error loading theme: Line 162 character 27: Failed to open file '/home/satya/.themes/Orion-Mint/metacity-1/close_focused_prelight.png': No such file or directory
You are missing a file close_focused_prelight.png. So the theme fails to load. Please correct that.
Hi. The file names are close_***
But you have closed_***
Btw here is the one i repacked with correct names. It also includes latest metacity and mutter themes of orion which are not released yet.
Just comment after you download so that I will delete it.
You had wrong file names. I just corrected them. For example you used "closed" instead of "close". I also updated the metacity and mutter themes with the one I am currently working on locally.
I changed the button colors to match the Mint-X-F icon theme and when I select it the buttons do not change color. I know othing about creating themes so I would need you help on what else I would need to change.
You will need to restart your window manager.
If you use Gnome Shell, press Alt+F2, then type 'r' and press "Enter"
If you use Unity, press Alt+F2, then type 'compiz --replace' and press "Enter"
If you use Gnome Classic, press Alt+F2, then type 'metacity --replace' and press "Enter"
I'm aware of the issue. But there is nothing I can do to fix it. See the Radiance theme also has the issue. LibreOffice is not native GTK and doesn't respect the text color there.
Yeah I think it's something LibreOffice may need to fix (Similar issue with Stock Ambiance and Netbeans IDE). I haven't been able to find a fix yet either.
The scrollbar in Chrome/Chromium cannot be customized in the GTK theme. However website owners can customize the scrollbar. So the G+ scrollbar is customized by Google and it doesn't have anything to do with the GTK theme. For example, visit http://fedorautils.sf.net and you will get a custom scrollbar in Chrome.
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when using it on ubuntu gnome remix x64 windows title become invisible. title bar color and text color are both white thats why its invisible.
First of all I think you did a great job with this theme and I hope you'll maintain it for a long time. Second I would like to say that I think the scroll bar is a little narrow and could be (almost) as the width of the square decoration. And about the decoration I think on the mouse hoover effect you could add a minus [ - ] a plus [ + ] and an x [ x ] for minimize, maximize/restore and close, like a mac style. Or you could add that not just for the hoover effect but the default, either way I think is a good ideea. Just look at it, it looks great: [ - ] [ + ] [ x ] or ... [-] [+] [x] Or make available the decoration for both options if you think it's a good ideea, with and without hoover effect signs/indicators. Thanks for the theme !
As an expression of thanks for this elegant theme, I would like to share my thoughts on 2 potential areas for improvement: 1) Colors of window control buttons: the colors we see when hovering could be red, amber and green (this is already there) although I'm not a fan of Mac. The fact that they are all blue until you hover on them is creative and different enough and better than Mac, I think. 2) In Nautilus (without the menu bar) the title bar and path/tool bar could perhaps be more compatible with each other. This might be mostly because of the design of Nautilus. Isn't it possible to have just a frame around the files and folders window and nothing in between the title bar, side bar and path/tool bar?
I like it.
I've tried alt+f2 then r but it doesn't work. Restarting doesn't work either.
If you give me the theme file you modified, I might be able to test.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=151915
Hi. I get the following error when trying to preview your theme, Error loading theme: Line 162 character 27: Failed to open file '/home/satya/.themes/Orion-Mint/metacity-1/close_focused_prelight.png': No such file or directory You are missing a file close_focused_prelight.png. So the theme fails to load. Please correct that.
Here is the link to the updated theme. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=151915
Hi. The file names are close_*** But you have closed_*** Btw here is the one i repacked with correct names. It also includes latest metacity and mutter themes of orion which are not released yet. Just comment after you download so that I will delete it.
Here - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8501878/Orion-Mint.zip
Thank you soooo much, what all did you have to do it you don't mind me asking.
You had wrong file names. I just corrected them. For example you used "closed" instead of "close". I also updated the metacity and mutter themes with the one I am currently working on locally.
Again, thank you. If|When you publish it are you gonna call it Orion-Mint?
I won't publish it. If you want you can publish.
That's cool, I'll make sure to link it to you though and give you all the credit.
No problem :)
I changed the button colors to match the Mint-X-F icon theme and when I select it the buttons do not change color. I know othing about creating themes so I would need you help on what else I would need to change.
You will need to restart your window manager. If you use Gnome Shell, press Alt+F2, then type 'r' and press "Enter" If you use Unity, press Alt+F2, then type 'compiz --replace' and press "Enter" If you use Gnome Classic, press Alt+F2, then type 'metacity --replace' and press "Enter"
bump
see the menu in LibreOffice > http://i.imgur.com/qG4wH.png
I'm aware of the issue. But there is nothing I can do to fix it. See the Radiance theme also has the issue. LibreOffice is not native GTK and doesn't respect the text color there.
Yeah I think it's something LibreOffice may need to fix (Similar issue with Stock Ambiance and Netbeans IDE). I haven't been able to find a fix yet either.
BUG on scrollbar on chrome/chromium > http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-05112012-100553am.php thanks
The scrollbar in Chrome/Chromium cannot be customized in the GTK theme. However website owners can customize the scrollbar. So the G+ scrollbar is customized by Google and it doesn't have anything to do with the GTK theme. For example, visit http://fedorautils.sf.net and you will get a custom scrollbar in Chrome.