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Proposed theme for Scarthgap 6.0

June 14, 2024 — BarryK

I posted a review of past themes yesterday:

https://bkhome.org/news/202406/a-look-at-past-themes.html

A couple of the guys reported that they like the dark-brown theme in Quirky Xerus 8.1.6:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=11766

Some of the PET packages for that theme needed to be updated. The JWM PET was for the old 2.x version of JWM. The desktop icons PET had some wrong and missing icons. Edited the wallpaper PET with "easyOS" text. Only had a gtk2 dark-brown theme; had to create same for gtk3. Got the PETs sorted; testing it:

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Here is the content of the 'default-theme' file (which in a running EasyOS is located in /root/.packages):

#script 3buildeasydistro will read this when building EasyOS.
#gtk, jwm, wallpaper: names of pet pkgs, which may actually have more than one
# theme inside, hence the : separator with actual theme name.
DEFAULT_THEME_GTK2='gtk_2_3_theme_flat_brown3:FlatBrown3'
DEFAULT_THEME_GTK3='gtk_2_3_theme_flat_brown3:FlatBrown3'
DEFAULT_THEME_JWM='jwm3_theme_verydarkbrown2:VeryDarkBrown2'
DEFAULT_THEME_WALLPAPER='desk_background_surreal_dark_brown_landscape:surreal-dark-brown-landscape.jpg'
DEFAULT_THEME_DESK_ICONS='desk_icon_theme_dull_brown_marble2:DullBrownMarble2'
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_FOREGROUND='#FDFDE6E6C2C2' #very light brown
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_SHADOW='0' #0=none
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_FONT='Open Sans Semi-Bold 11'
DEFAULT_THEME_XORG_TEXT_DPI=102

Not quite sure if I want to go with that theme.

I notice that the "setup" and "edit" icons do not seem appropriate. Might change those.
Don't recall who originally created those marble icons; thanks for the contribution.  

Tags: easy