Hi :) I really like the Radiance theme in oranges and reds. It seems to be available on a lot of different distros but not at all in Windows without considerable work. Silver is good and seems more familiar cross-platform-wise. Regards from Tom :)
--- On Sun, 23/10/11, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> > Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Installing the "XP-Silver" theme in > Ubuntu > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, 23 October, 2011, 11:04 > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 01:29, Martin > Fox <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Michele Zarri put the following zip file together a > few years ago: > > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3605254/ubuntu-xp-silver-theme.zip > > > > The instructions he wrote are: > > > > Win XP Silver-like theme for Ubuntu > > > > Installing the theme is fairly straightfoward. > > > > 1) Go to System > Preferences > Appearance and > stay in the Themes page. > > 2) Save your current theme in order to be able to > revert to it. > > 3) Drag and drop the file GTK2-WinXp etc.. and select > the option to > > use it immediately. This is not a full theme, but only > the "controls" > > part. (If you press the Customize button you will > notice that a theme > > is formed by Controls, Colours, Window Borders, > Icons and Pointers). > > If you go to controls, the last entry should read > WinXP-Silver. > > 4) Drag and drop the XP-SilverWindow etc.. file in the > Appearance > > dialog and again select use immediately. This is the > windows borders > > part of the theme. It is 99% based on a theme I found > on > > art.gnome.org, but I needed to modify the shade > applied to the title > > (just removing a couple of lines from the XML file). > > 5) to finish the transformation, you can select > Verdana as the font > > for the Window Titles. > > 6) save the new theme. > > > > Both the components of the theme were found at > art.gnome.org where you > > experiment with many other combinations (probably you > will even find > > something better... as I said I did not spend more > than an hour on this. > > > > Alas, the installation and activation instructions appear > to not be > applicable to Ubuntu 11.10, which doesn't have the range of > choices in > System > Preferences > Appearance that earlier > versions did. I don't > know yet whether the function is hidden somewhere else, or > if one > needs to install the Gnome Tweak Tool, or what one can do. > I only > discovered this today and haven't seriously started > researching the > matter. > > Meanwhile, however, I've discovered that the Radiance theme > in Ubuntu > 11.10 looks very much like the "XP-Silver" theme except > that > highlighting is orange (menu items, checkboxes, default > pushbuttons, > etc) and the drop-down list boxes are as Hazel described. > My (possibly > faulty) memory of the earlier version of the Radiance theme > is that it > didn't have enough contrast, but on one of my laptops at > least, the > contrast now looks fine. However, it looks a bit less like > Windows or > Mac. > > --Jean > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived > and cannot be deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
