
nouveGnomeBrass
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
This is a variation on the excellent "nouveGnomeGray" available here:
http://tsujan.deviantart.com/art/nouveGnomeGray-300365158
But recoloured to a "brass" look also cleaned up and a some links added to work better on the Xfce4 desktop
Designed to go with my theme Old Wood And Brass available here:
http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Old+Wood+And+Brass?content=148777
5 years ago
0.0.1 1st release into the wild.
5 years ago
0.0.1 1st release into the wild.
Svento
4 years ago
So please, keep working! You seem to be on the right track - but this one really looks... well, it's totally horrible...
One more thing: In NouveGnome grey there's no specific icon for the Chrome Browser, and on a monocromatic scale it's identical to Chromium. So I searched for a more traditional stiff icon - default Google Crome, black and white, no grey scale - and and fiddled around with it. Removed the black leaving empty space, then put the negative icon on the clean grey globe in NGg, which gave me a shaded grey icon with black lines. Then I just removed the black lines.
At the moment I'm trying to become friendly with GIMP, shadows, transparancey and stuff, then I'll try and make some kind of simple monocromatic brass icon theme. First project will probably be just getting a layer of #B5A642 on each of the icons of NGg, that would look good enough to live with for a few years. But I have a somewhat larger project too, where I'd use different images. Mostly simple and monochromatic brass, but with an ambition of adding a feeling of 1st Industrial revolution to the theme. I'd also like to put each one on a glossy black background and add a brass frame around it, to make them visible on light backgrounds as well as dark ones. I hope I can bother myself to making an entire desktop theme in mahogany with Victorian brass details and and lamps for buttons, glowing in prelight mode...
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Svento
4 years ago
There are some nouveGnome Greys that I don't like at all and I've found some decent alternatives. This is especially the arrows. Some of my own ones doesn't really play well with the general style of nouve, but I'll figure something out. The GTK window stuff doesn't necessarily need to follow the style of the program starters, maps and stuff. Top priority is making something that's discrete, easy to read, yet adding some color to the environment. Also, some aestethical unity is essential.
Then there are some issues with scaling. Some Actions icons become HUGE in some specific programs, taking up some 25% vertical screen space. It's the toolbar of Synaptic, the window opening when saving stuff from Firefox and the window opening in Caja after having made a Search, then clicking Open Folder of the one of the objects. Not yet sure how to deal with this, neither exactly what icons causing this. There are some appearing under different names. I'm making a map now for Actions icons scaled down to 32 x 32, but I don't think that will solve problems, still I really hope I won't need to scale every specific icon to six sizes...
Or maybe I should just get myself a life...?
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