Updated Adwaita Theme

Sergio secipolla at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 20:52:59 UTC 2012


On 09/19/2012 05:21 PM, Marcus Moeller wrote:
> Hi again.
>
>>> Some of you might have already noticed, that the Adwaita theme has
>>> been updated recently. It now includes a full GTK2 port, replacing
>>> the old Clearlooks fallback. That's great in general, but seems to
>>> cause some issues with non-GNOME DEs.
>> <snip>
>>
>> well, it's good news that default gnome3 theme finally have a gtk2
>> counterpart, but that's far as the fun things go, IMHO. I've never been
>> a great proponent of Adwaita, I actually consider it to be rather on the
>> ugly side (inconsistent, looking half-done, plus the issues you talk
>> about), IMHO clearlooks, while oldish, looks waaay better and it has
>> **normal** scrollbars. On that note, I googled a little and it seems
>> there is an unofficial port of Clearlooks for GTK3:
>>
>> http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Clearlooks-Phenix?content=145210
>>
>> Maybe we can try that? As for greybird and similar -- well, it looks
>> great (and unlike with Adwaita, I can see the designer(s) had put a lot
>> of effort in every single detail), but IMHO it's not very good for
>> long-term usage by your average fedora user.
>
> Clearlooks is quite outdated. I would really welcome a port of Nodoka ;)
>
> Greets
> Marcus

It must be something that's packaged.
I can't say much as I use a downloaded theme too and have neither 
Adwaita (which BTW is the older version still in F17) nor *looks.
But whichever is better done all around should be used, I suppose.


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