Sane gtk theme?

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at Leidinger.net> (Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:53:33 +0200):

> The Murrina-Aqua theme looks nice, but the contrast of text is
> horrible. I already tried:
> ---snip---
> style "myfontcolor"
> {
>   text[NORMAL]      = "#000000"
>   text[PRELIGHT]    = "#000000"
>   text[ACTIVE]      = "#000000"
> }
> 
> widget_class "*" style "myfontcolor"
> ---snip---
> and this is better in the terminal and in text input widgets, but tree
> widgets and menus still have the horrible contrast. I can live with the
> menu as it is, but not with the tree-/table-/...-widgets.

For the archives, I solved this my modifying the theme:
---snip---
--- /usr/local/share/themes/Murrina-Aqua/gtk-2.0/gtkrc	Thu Oct 19 19:29:08 2006
+++ .themes/Murrina-Aqua-netchild/gtk-2.0/gtkrc	Sun Oct 22 09:58:21 2006
@@ -16,27 +16,27 @@
   xthickness = 1
   ythickness = 1
 
-  fg[NORMAL]        = "#505050"
+  fg[NORMAL]        = "#000000"
   fg[PRELIGHT]      = "#222222"
-  fg[ACTIVE]        = "#505050"
+  fg[ACTIVE]        = "#000000"
   fg[SELECTED]      = "#ffffff"
   fg[INSENSITIVE]   = "#A2A2A2"
 
   bg[NORMAL]        = "#e7e7e7"
   bg[PRELIGHT]      = "#efefef"
   bg[ACTIVE]        = "#DADADA"
-  bg[SELECTED]	     = "#93c1ff"
+  bg[SELECTED]	     = "#8ebcff"
   bg[INSENSITIVE]   = "#DADADA"
 
   base[NORMAL]      = "#ffffff"
   base[PRELIGHT]    = "#6590b8"
   base[ACTIVE]      = "#DADADA"
-  base[SELECTED]    = "#93c1ff"
+  base[SELECTED]    = "#8ebcff"
   base[INSENSITIVE] = "#DADADA"
 
-  text[NORMAL]      = "#505050"
-  text[PRELIGHT]    = "#505050"
-  text[ACTIVE]      = "#505050"
+  text[NORMAL]      = "#000000"
+  text[PRELIGHT]    = "#000000"
+  text[ACTIVE]      = "#000000"
   text[SELECTED]    = "#ffffff"
   text[INSENSITIVE] = "#A2A2A2"
 
@@ -53,14 +53,15 @@
 
   engine "murrine" 
   {
-	 scrollbar_color     = "#93c1ff"
-	 contrast 			   = 1.0
-	 glazestyle = 0 # 0 = flat hilight, 1 curved hilight (default)
-	 menubarstyle        = 1 # 0 = flat, 1 = glass, 2 = gradient
-	 menubaritemstyle	   = 1 # 0 = menuitem look, 1 = button look
-	 listviewheaderstyle = 0 # 0 = flat, 1 = glass
-	 squaredstyle 		   = 0 # 0 = default (rounded), 1 = squared
-    	 animation           = TRUE
+	 scrollbar_color     = "#8ebcff"
+	 contrast 			   = 0.8
+	 glazestyle = 2 # 0 = flat hilight, 1 = curved hilight, 2 = concave style
+	 menubarstyle = 1 # 0 = flat, 1 = glassy, 2 = gradient, 3 = striped
+	 menubaritemstyle = 1 # 0 = menuitem look, 1 = button look
+	 menuitemstyle = 1 # 0 = flat, 1 = glassy, 2 = striped
+	 listviewheaderstyle = 1 # 0 = flat, 1 = glassy
+	 squaredstyle = 0 # 0 = rounded theme, 1 = squared theme
+    	 animation = TRUE # FALSE = disabled, TRUE = enabled
   }
 }
 
@@ -79,13 +80,13 @@
 
 style "theme-entry" = "theme-wider"
 {
-  bg[SELECTED]	    = "#93c1ff"
+  bg[SELECTED]	    = "#8ebcff"
 }
 
 style "theme-button" = "theme-wider"
 {
   bg[NORMAL]        = "#f2f2f2"
-  bg[PRELIGHT]      = "#93c1ff"
+  bg[PRELIGHT]      = "#8ebcff"
   bg[ACTIVE]	     = "#D3D3D3"
 }
 
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@
 {
   bg[NORMAL]      = "#efefef"
   bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#efefef"
-  bg[SELECTED]    = "#93c1ff"
+  bg[SELECTED]    = "#8ebcff"
 }
 
 style "theme-tasklist" = "theme-default"
@@ -120,8 +121,8 @@
 
 style "theme-menubar-item"
 {
-	ythickness = 4
-	bg[PRELIGHT] = "#93c1ff"
+	ythickness =2 
+	bg[PRELIGHT] = "#8ebcff"
 }
 
 style "theme-tree" = "theme-default"
---snip---

Now the text is much easier to read (a little bit more eye candy stuff
is enabled).

Bye,
Alexander.

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