Qt migration is a huge job! As a user, I would like to thank you guys for all effort... Hope Lubuntu continue to evolve, and also the team to get bigger!
2016-08-30 16:06 GMT-03:00 Rafael Laguna <[email protected]>: > Yes, Simon, the dark-ish theme is deprecated now for several reasons. > We tried shipping a dark panel theme with light windows and (inverted) > white icons. But there were some problems with it: > > - the theme needed too many updates, and we don't have the resources > Ubuntu has for maintaining both themes > > - after several GTK & app icons updates, some glyphs had to be > constantly re-written (specially the system tray ones) and we can't, > obviously, cover the entire app ecosystem (every theme out there lacks > some app icons) > > - LXDE is constantly changing and evolving and that's a problem for us, > the artwork people. See, for example, the language applet. At first we > used a single applet icon for it, then the flags appeared and we needed > to make 164 new glyphs for every language and resolution (keep in mind > having to duplicate all of them in white colour), and then we changed > to Fcitex, all that work is useless now (again, more icons) > > That's why Lubuntu theme (the only one) is the only pre-installed, > depending on Gnome icons (they keep those glyphs updated so we can > focus on apps) and same with GTK. Also, a distro usually uses just one > theme, that visually identifies the system, and it can't be the perfect > match for every user. And that's where Linux tops over other OSes, > letting you to customise at any level. > > Anyway, if you want to get back the semi-dark theme, you can grab the > GTK [1] and icon [2] themes (I released them to allow any user to > continue or fork them), or even download new ones from Gnome-Look [3]. > Sorry if this isn't what you expected to hear, but we're doing a big > effort to keep the Lubuntu overall looking nice, specially now we're > porting everything to Qt, using a new syntax, new apps new controls and > almost re-doing it from scratch. > > Thanks for understanding. > > [1] https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1013337 > [2] https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1011980 > [3] https://www.gnome-look.org/search?projectSearchText=lubuntu > > On sön, 2016-08-28 at 17:15 -0500, Simon Quigley wrote: > > Adding Rafael Laguna, our artwork guy. > > > > I would personally love a dark theme, but from what I remember, that > > is > > a thing of the past. Could you explain, Rafael? > > > > On 08/28/2016 05:07 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > I'm playing a bit with the themes and icons and i can't really find > > > a > > > nice dark theme. That also has themed the grey window borders. > > > > > > Lubuntu-dark-panel isn't exactly dark. > > > > > > I now have dark panel configured with the natura color theme and > > > that > > > has a nice feel to it though the grey is still keeping it very > > > bright. > > > > > > And if i manually change the colors how do i then save the theme so > > > that > > > i can share my config? > > > I mean where should the theme be saved? When i press the "create a > > > theme archive .obt" button it wants me to select a directory where > > > to > > > store it, why doesn't is in point already to the directory? What > > > directory should that be? Whatever location i choose, it does not > > > accept my choice. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Rafael Laguna > > Graphics & UIX Design · www.rafaellaguna.net > Lubuntu Artwork Team · Ubuntu Design Team > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > >
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