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MintLiner gtk3 theme

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This is the gtk3 (not Gnome shell theme) theme for Gnome 3. I originally made this theme inspired by the theme of Minty Freshness(earlier version) for LMDE. This theme was originally based on adwaita engine (Gnome 3.01). It is now based on unico engine 1.0.1. Old theme for Gnome 3.01 (Fedora 15 and others) is present in a package called MintLiner_old. The theme for Gnome 3.2 (based on adwaita engine) has been identified as MintLiner_experiment. I do not guarantee it will work properly. The new theme (unico engine) is now present and contains gtk2 part, which is actually Clearlook gtk2 theme.
This theme contains the metacity theme (not mutter) of Minty Freshness theme.

Tested on Ubuntu 11.10(Gnome 3.2) - new theme, Fedora 15 and Gnome Live CD OpenSuse(Gnome 3.01 ver.) - old theme.

License: GPL

Installation process:
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* Extract this package

* Copy the contents(with root privileges) of the package in the location /usr/share/themes/ or /.themes/ in the home directory .

* Install latest Gnome Tweak Tool to change the gtk theme.

* (Old theme)If you want to change the look of the Nautilus 3, copy the file nautilus.css(with root privileges) in the location /usr/share/nautilus/.
Before this make a backup of this file original nautilus.css. - I'm not sure whether this is a good way to change the appearance of Nautilus,
and will it give long life, but in addition to any other theme you must return the original nautilus.css.

The new theme does not require this step.

Known issues:

- (Fixed*) Ubuntu 11.10 Fallback mode. The main menu on the gnome panel not themed properly, menubar is round and incomplete.
- Some other elements have a white inner edges. This is due to the Button display
- There may be some bugs becouse of gtk engine updates over time.

22.04.2011

Start creating a GTK theme that is not boring and gray as Adwaita. I started to make the theme Skyliner. Theme does not look bad.

25.04.2011

Soon I decided to make a theme for Linux Mint (like Minty Freshness). So I left the theme SkyLiner.

28.04.2011

I found a way to modify the look of the Nautilus 3 (at least slightly more). I hope there is a better way than this, but for now this is it.

03.05.2011

I think that this theme can be useful. I'm not sure, but I think that Adwaita engine has some limitations. For example, menubar.menuitem,
expander, active tabs and couple other things can't be represented by picture or by using the Gradients.

This is under construction. If someone has more knowledge about this please feel free to let comments.

01.10.2011

Well, I didn't come some time on deviant. A lot of things have changed.

05.10.2011

Using Ubuntu 11.10 I realized that adwaita engine upgraded, so MintLiner theme no longer works properly. MintLiner theme works fine on Fedora 15 and Gnome 3.01 (including OpenSuse), but not in Ubuntu 11.10. Therefore, I must rewrite the whole theme to some time soon as possible.

17.10.2011

Currently I'm leaving Adwaita engine. The reason for this is some "instability" in certain elements of the theme (the edges of buttons, menus, etc. are not displayed correctly - despite of a good code). Perhaps it comes to some bugs, but it does not suit me more certain limitations on this engine. That's why I switched to the Unico engine. Unico engine is present in Ubuntu 11.10 and Fedora 16.

18.10.2011

The new theme is quite different from the old version.
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Rasa13's avatar
i just rediscovered this theme, and man, its one of the best!
:love: :bow: