Tom, If you have Ubuntu 11.10, have a look in the Appearance dialog for the Adwaita theme, which has blue highlighting in menus but otherwise looks almost identical to our XP-Silver theme. It also looks very similar to one of the standard Mac themes.
I'll post a sample on the wiki when I get a chance (may not be that soon). --Jean On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 00:46, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- 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
