Another look at EasyOS themes

There have been many desktop themes in EasyOS over the years. See this blog post:

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

Looking at themes since then, here is Easy Scarthgap-series version 6.0:

...quite pleasant, that photo was taken by me. File /root/.packages/default-theme has this:

DEFAULT_THEME_GTK2='gtk_2_3_theme_easyblue:EasyBlue'
DEFAULT_THEME_GTK3='gtk_2_3_theme_easyblue:EasyBlue'
DEFAULT_THEME_JWM='jwm3_theme_easyblue:EasyBlue'
DEFAULT_THEME_WALLPAPER='desk_background_carrabin:carrabin-station.jpg'
DEFAULT_THEME_DESK_ICONS='desk_icon_theme_easyblue2:EasyBlue2'
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_FOREGROUND='#00002a2a7f7f' #dark blue
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_SHADOW='0' #0=none
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_FONT='DejaVu Sans Bold 10'
DEFAULT_THEME_XORG_TEXT_DPI=102
#20240118 set to one of these: blue green grey orange purple (default orange)
DEFAULT_THEME_BASE_COLOR='blue'

Progressing to the Excalibur-series, first release was version 7.0, October 2025:

...also pleasant. The same theme stayed right up to version 7.2.5, then 7.2.99 had a different wallpaper.

DEFAULT_THEME_GTK2='gtk_2_3_theme_lighteasyblue:LightEasyBlue'
DEFAULT_THEME_GTK3='gtk_2_3_theme_lighteasyblue:LightEasyBlue'
DEFAULT_THEME_JWM='jwm3_theme_lightbluebrown:LightBlueBrown'
DEFAULT_THEME_WALLPAPER='desk_background_dry-field:dry-field-blue-sky.jpg'
DEFAULT_THEME_DESK_ICONS='desk_icon_theme_treepata-yellow-blue:treepata-yellow-blue'
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_FOREGROUND='#15150b0b0000' #very dark brown
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_SHADOW='0' #0=none
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_FONT='DejaVu Sans 13'
DEFAULT_THEME_XORG_TEXT_DPI=102
#20240117 3buildeasydistro: write these into /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini:
# ${DEFAULT_THEME_GTK3##*:} and
DEFAULT_GTK3_FONT_NAME='DejaVu Sans 13'
#20240118 set to one of these: blue green grey orange (default orange)
DEFAULT_THEME_BASE_COLOR='grey'

The latest release is 7.3, and decided time for a complete change:

The default-theme file:

DEFAULT_THEME_GTK2='gtk_2_3_theme_flat-light-orange-red:FlatLightOrangeRed'
DEFAULT_THEME_GTK3='gtk_2_3_theme_flat-light-orange-red:FlatLightOrangeRed'
DEFAULT_THEME_JWM='jwm3_theme_light-orange-red:LightOrangeRed'
DEFAULT_THEME_WALLPAPER='desk_background_eastern_quoll:eastern-quoll.jpg'
DEFAULT_THEME_DESK_ICONS='desk_icon_theme_peachy_red:peachy-red'
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_FOREGROUND='#606006060000' #dark brown
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_SHADOW='0' #0=none
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_FONT='DejaVu Sans 13'
DEFAULT_THEME_XORG_TEXT_DPI=102
#20240117 3buildeasydistro: write these into /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini:
# ${DEFAULT_THEME_GTK3##*:} and
DEFAULT_GTK3_FONT_NAME='DejaVu Sans 13'
#20240118 set to one of these: blue green grey orange (default orange)
DEFAULT_THEME_BASE_COLOR='orange'
#20260426 text colors in rox window... very dark brown...
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_UNKN_COLOR='#303000000000'
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_BDEV_COLOR='#303000000000'
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_FILE_COLOR='#303000000000'
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_DIR_COLOR='#303000000000'
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_CDEV_COLOR='#303000000000'
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_PIPE_COLOR='#303000000000'

Feedback welcome on the forum, which of these you like best!   

Tags: easy