11-24-2015, 09:11 AM
@tehnomancer There was an application for that "xfce theme manager". Not sure if it's still being developed.
@Coastie Not all themes look good on LL. It's possible to patch a gtk2/gtk3 theme to make it fully compatible with enough time. Some themes are very old, developers stoped further development at some point. Desktop environments continue to be developed, and that's why themes get messy. GPL themes can be forked and you update them when you have time. Imagine if all the themes got messy because DE got a major update. The more themes you provide the more work you have to do to fix them. If J just adds random themes that have issues LL would look unfinished. That is my opinion.
What I would like see is that people step in open a github account and start forkin and patching themes. Although many people hate git it's still the best way to develop projects in colaborative manner. The more people see the code the better. Then you push your commits and follow the changes you made. And anyone can make suggestions to your code or graphics. Also your project can be a good base for someone to create a different theme. And if you step out another theme developer can fork your project and continue to work on the code.
Perhaps we need a decent step by step git and githib tutorial that anyone can understand.
As for the themes, there has to be neat theme tutorials on the internet. It's super easy to make a xfwm theme, that's a good start. First you make one of those and continue with gtk theming. Best to start with an existing theme and make your changes as you learn. In the begining just colors and later taskbar and whisker menu.
@Coastie Not all themes look good on LL. It's possible to patch a gtk2/gtk3 theme to make it fully compatible with enough time. Some themes are very old, developers stoped further development at some point. Desktop environments continue to be developed, and that's why themes get messy. GPL themes can be forked and you update them when you have time. Imagine if all the themes got messy because DE got a major update. The more themes you provide the more work you have to do to fix them. If J just adds random themes that have issues LL would look unfinished. That is my opinion.
What I would like see is that people step in open a github account and start forkin and patching themes. Although many people hate git it's still the best way to develop projects in colaborative manner. The more people see the code the better. Then you push your commits and follow the changes you made. And anyone can make suggestions to your code or graphics. Also your project can be a good base for someone to create a different theme. And if you step out another theme developer can fork your project and continue to work on the code.
Perhaps we need a decent step by step git and githib tutorial that anyone can understand.
As for the themes, there has to be neat theme tutorials on the internet. It's super easy to make a xfwm theme, that's a good start. First you make one of those and continue with gtk theming. Best to start with an existing theme and make your changes as you learn. In the begining just colors and later taskbar and whisker menu.