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Gtk2 / Gtk3 theme mimicking CDE / Motif and Front panel app
'An elegant desktop, from a more... civilzed age.' ;)

Latest version 1.3 : Now includes configurable XFCE window decorations. Title height and border width can be set in pixels, and the images necessary for xfwm making up the border and window buttons will be generated from that. Also the panel app and gtk/xfce theme are now combined into a single package

Unpack, and run 'cdepanel'. (Maybe do chmod u+x cdepanel first.)
Tested on Xubuntu 17.10.

To generate theme files without using the panel app, use the 'switchtheme' script.


CDE= Common Desktop Environment was (is) a colorful desktop from the '90s with a very distinct flat / boxy look.

Comes with about 40 original CDE color schemes. Script generates the gtk.css etc files. Includes the purplish 'Solaris' found in many 'cde themes' (the palette Crimson.dp) and a color scheme used on HPUnix (at least on the Hp9000 I used).

Includes theme for Xfce window decorations ala CDE/Motif


README FILE ########################################################################

CDEPANEL AND CDETHEME 1.3 / [email protected]

CDE front panel emulation with gtk and xfce theme

###################################################################################
HOW TO TEST:

Make fresh a live usb of xubuntu 17.10 and run the binary 'cdepanel'
(you may need to do 'chmod u+x cdepanel')

Use gtk/xfce theme *without* the panel app with the 'switchtheme' script, eg:

./switchtheme ../palettes/Broica.dp 8 5 18 true true true

###################################################################################
NEWS:

In this 1.3 version I added configurable XFCE window decorations. Title height
and border width can be set in pixels, and the images for borders and window
buttons will be generated from that.

Directories and are now organized a bit different. See 'TWEAK' below.

###################################################################################
REQUIREMENTS:

1) linux
2) a /tmp directory
3) python2.7
4) imagemagick convert
5) gtk2 pixmap engine
6) python and PyQt4
7) Prefarably, use XFCE4 !

It was tested on xubuntu 17.10. On ubuntu,
python and imagemagick should come installed. But if not, do:

sudo apt install imagemagick python gtk2-engines python-qt4 gtk2-engines-pixbuf

###################################################################################
INSTALLATION:

A) CDE Panel app

1) extract the zip to some place you can access
2) copy 'cdepanel' to your path, or just run it from there
(maybe you need to make it executable, do: 'chmod u+x cdepanel')

If you are using xfce4 the script will set a different CDE
backdrop to every workspace. However, not all versions of xfce4 allow
setting the backdrop from a script. So you may need to go into
SETTINGS/DESKTOP and uncheck 'Apply to all workspaces'.

The Gtk2/3 theme uses images (arrows and such). Gtk3 doesnt always display
these sharply, depending on the dpi setting or font size. If some elemens
in apps appear blurred, try modifying your custom dpi setting or font
size. (XFCE SETTINGS/APPEARANCE/FONTS)

If the 'cdepanel' binary doesnt work on your system, you need to TWEAK (see below)

B) Gtk/xfce theme *without* cde panel app

1) copy 'cdetheme' directory to ~/.themes
2) Go into xfce/settings/ appearance and window manager to pick 'cdetheme'
(or similar app in other environments)
3) use the 'switchtheme' script for picking a new color palette or set the
window height/border width

###################################################################################
USAGE:

Configuration of the cdepanel app can mostly be done by right click on the panel.
Apps can be added to the panel and drawers using drag and drop.

Keys and mouse:

mousewheel: switch workspace
=/- or ctrl-mousewheel: change size
h/H or shift-mousewheel: change sharpness/antialiasing
p/P: quick palette switch
s/S: tweak displayed saturation
c: pop up config dialog

###################################################################################
TWEAK

The file 'cdepanel' is a pyinstaller executable containing almost all
dependencies. So running that has the greatest chance of just working. The
cdepanel script will try to make an initial configuration based on what it
finds on your system. If you want to manually tweak or modify/improve the
configuration or scripts, here are some pointers:

cdetheme/: directory containting the gtk/xfce theme files, should be copied to
~/.themes A link to this directory called cdetheme1 will be created to be able
to quickly switch and affect changes when the theme has been modified

cdetheme/scripts: directory with all the python scripts

scripts/cdepanel.py: the source file of the main app. If the binary 'cdepanel'
doesnt work, try to run this one.

scripts/switchtheme: script for setting the theme (gtk/xfce), without using the
panel app

scripts/CdePanel/: the configuration directory for cdepanel. On initial run,
this is copied to your ~/.config directory.

CdePanel/layout: file that determines what is shown on the panel

CdePanel/config: some configuration options

CdePanel/cache: icon cache. If your icons look funny, empty this dir

CdePanel/drawers: contains drawer files (the arrow things that pop up a list of
apps). On inital run, a set of default drawers is created.

###################################################################################
PYHON DEPENDENCIES

If you want to use the python modules instead of the 'binary' please install
the following dependencies:

sudo apt install python-dev build-essential python-sip-dev python-sip-dev libpythonqt-dev libqt4-dev libqt4-dev libqt4-dev python-qt4-dev python-qt4 python-yaml python-xdg python-pil python-pip

sudo pip install ewmh
sudo pip install colors.py
sudo pip install pyinstaller

###################################################################################
QT THEME

Hmm in xubuntu 17.10 the gtk style now doesnt seem to be applied to QT apps. To do this install

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mati75/qt5ct
sudo apt install qt5ct
sudo apt install qt5-style-plugins

and in .bashrc set

QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct

(one of the 2)

start qt5ct and pick 'gtk+'


So yes.. I hope you can get it to work !

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j-arun-mani

6 months ago

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krig

7 months ago

10 10 the best

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redfred84

8 months ago

10 10 the best, please more of this! - a really cool unique style between dozens of osx clones

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qtnerd

8 months ago

10 10 the best

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coldfiremc

1 year ago

When I install KDE does not list this theme in the GTK3 list, but in the gtk2 list apears correctly. I have Kubuntu 18.04.

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xfce4ddict

1 year ago

I love the colors!!! But I don't think I'm ready to anything beyond 1MB in size... Can you provide a GTK2 version of this? I don't really need buttons or icons, I just need those colors applied to window manager, file manager (Thunar) and panel/whisker menu (Xubuntu / Xfce 4.12.0) For comparison, at the moment I'm using some theme called Coffee Compact and loving it (even though the panel color isn't quite right) Or tell me what app do I need to install to customize the colors myself and save it into a TAR.GZ file for later restoring.

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josvanr

1 year ago

hello. Thnx! Yes I also like it, I've been using this since 1999 or ;) Yes it is already possible to do that. See the script 'switchtheme'. Should generate the gtkrc etc, without having to use the panel. See the 'install.txt' file.

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jlc930

1 year ago

10 10 the best

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iiiaqd

1 year ago

9 +I added Xfce compatible modifications for CSD (Nautilus, Evince etc): https://pastebin.com/Qc21qGdh

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rosaastrum

1 year ago

Thank you!!! That was the one major flaw I discovered in this them, and now it's a perfect all-arounder. I hope josvanr includes it in their next version. :)

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josvanr

1 year ago

Great, thnx ! Hm yes I hope I'll ever be able to work on this again..

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slhsen

1 year ago

My favourite theme! My only complain is that title bars don't gray out when window is inactive on Gnome 3.28.2 on Ubuntu.

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wooliewool

1 year ago

Attempting to run cdepanel under Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish gave me a very large number of fontconfig errors: https://pastebin.com/g3sUxAJs

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josvanr

1 year ago

wait it seems to be some other problem:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=235643

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wooliewool

1 year ago

So what are my options? Since I'm running a VM I'm tempted just to nuke the VM and overwrite it with Ubuntu 17.10 to match the version you developed on. Installing the fontconfig deb from bionic just made cdepanel fail with the same errors faster.

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josvanr

1 year ago

I'm running the LTS version (18.04) myself and it works fine here. Not sure how to fix the problem in 18.10, but itdoesnt seem to be an issue with the cdetheme itself. So I guess you can either do some more digging, or just install 18.04. Then it should work right away

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josvanr

1 year ago

PS are you running cdepanel.py from the scripts directory or the 'binary' (cdepanel)? The latter has been 'compiled' for xubuntu 17. If you want to use the theme on 18.04, you have to run the python script cdepanel.py (and also install dependencies if necessary). Maybe you could try that first in your current installation, if you haven't done so already...

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wooliewool

1 year ago

I already replace Xubuntu 18.10 with 17.10 before you posted that but I ran python cdepanel.py after installing all suggested dependencies, and got:
File "cdepanel.py", line 183
print '>'+Globals.EXECUTABLE+'<'
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print('>'+Globals.EXECUTABLE+'<')?

This was after I commented out one print, and I scrolled through the ,py and found this command over and over, and figured that I probably shouldn't have commented them out..

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josvanr

1 year ago

Ok. Aha that sounds like you have python3 whereas I still had python 2.7. I think 3 uses print() where in 2 one could use print etc without (). I must port the scripts one day. Dont know how much work that is...

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josvanr

1 year ago

hello! Hm I'm not sure what the error messages mean, but maybe you can try using a different font. The font is not yet in the config file, but you can define it in cdepanel.py. Just look for 'Globals.font'. Hope it helps..

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chris-k

1 year ago

The colour scheme does not work in Seamonkey as expected. Menu background colour is 'dark green' (#244953), instead of 'cyan' (#4992A7). The reason is that in

CDE/gtk-3.20/widgets.jos.css

you have

background-color: @bs_menu;

for

_dialog menu

Instead, you should have

background-color: @bs_menu;

This translates (probably through your process.py script, which I didn't try yet) to various

background-color: @bs_menu;

instructions inside code that regards 'menu' parts in widgets.css, in the same directory. Those instructions should be changed to

background-color: @bg_menu;

(but only in code that regards 'menu'!). Here is a diff file that you can use as a quick patch:

--- CDE/gtk-3.20/widgets.css.orig 2018-05-04 23:55:07.000000000 +0200
+++ CDE/gtk-3.20/widgets.css 2019-01-30 00:25:42.854569899 +0100
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
border-left-color: @ts_menu;
border-right-color: @bs_menu;
border-bottom-color: @bs_menu;
- background-color: @bs_menu;
+ background-color: @bg_menu;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
padding: 1px;
@@ -2536,7 +2536,7 @@
border-left-color: @ts_menu;
border-right-color: @bs_menu;
border-bottom-color: @bs_menu;
- background-color: @bs_menu;
+ background-color: @bg_menu;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
padding: 1px;
@@ -4859,7 +4859,7 @@
border-left-color: @ts_menu;
border-right-color: @bs_menu;
border-bottom-color: @bs_menu;
- background-color: @bs_menu;
+ background-color: @bg_menu;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
padding: 1px;
@@ -7182,7 +7182,7 @@
border-left-color: @ts_menu;
border-right-color: @bs_menu;
border-bottom-color: @bs_menu;
- background-color: @bs_menu;
+ background-color: @bg_menu;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
padding: 1px;
@@ -9505,7 +9505,7 @@
border-left-color: @ts_menu;
border-right-color: @bs_menu;
border-bottom-color: @bs_menu;
- background-color: @bs_menu;
+ background-color: @bg_menu;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
padding: 1px;
@@ -11828,7 +11828,7 @@
border-left-color: @ts_menu;
border-right-color: @bs_menu;
border-bottom-color: @bs_menu;
- background-color: @bs_menu;
+ background-color: @bg_menu;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
padding: 1px;

Note that this problem does NOT appear on Firefox 60.x - only on Seamonkey 2.49.x - I guess Seamonkey is more accurate in following the GTK theme (and CSS in general) that Firefox.

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chris-k

1 year ago

Comments are not the right place for code! I would love to post all this in a discussion forum through the "send email" link, but it seems I cannot...

In the above, I meant: you have to use

background-color: @bg_menu;

instead. 'bg' - NOT 'bs' - 'bs' is what you have for background-color in menus. It is also clear from the diff file.

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chris-k

1 year ago

To set the font size in the UI of Seamonkey, I resorted to setting

* {
font-size: 14pt !important
}

in my (newly created, from an example file in the same dir)

chrome/userChrome.css

Maybe one can achieve the same result with your Python scripts, but they don't work without modifications in Python 3.x, so I didn't try them yet.

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josvanr

1 year ago

gee thnx someone actually posted a patch! If I ever get round to working on this again, I'll certainly include it. It will probably take some time, though, probably at the next stable xubuntu release (when I upgrade). Or you could start your own release of course :)

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brzoskowski

2 years ago

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product-maker redfred84 May 19 2020 10 the best
10 the best, please more of this! - a really cool unique style between dozens of osx clones
product-maker qtnerd May 12 2020 10 the best
10 the best
product-maker jlc930 Aug 15 2019 10 the best
10 the best
product-maker iiiaqd Mar 15 2019 9 excellent
+I added Xfce compatible modifications for CSD (Nautilus, Evince etc): https://pastebin.com/Qc21qGdh
product-maker brzoskowski Jan 06 2019 9 excellent
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+awesome theme for me!
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