ClearLooks to be Default Theme on Gnome 2.12

Eugenia writes "The Gnome Project announced today that the ClearLooks theme engine will be the default theme for the Gnome 2.12 (to be released around September). This was a much needed refresh of the Gnome default desktop (old theme, new theme screenshots)."

Re:Oh, big news here

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

Actually, GNOME had Themes when windows hab static GUI, Microsoft introduced a theme engine in 2002, but Gnome had one way before, and had pretty good themes at that time. In this case, M$ coppied GNOME/KDE.

Re:Great Windows...

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

It now appears -after digging through the linked announcement - that SUEDE [gnome-look.org] is the candidate for default icons.

A great step up.

Hehe

[Anonymous Coward]

and if you run Ubuntu Linux, you're already using the theme.

Re:I gotta say

[webfiend]

If you ask me, there will never be a year of the Linux desktop until somebody creates a Linux desktop environment that is at least as rich as Windows.

That's okay. I use Linux on my desktop and have for most of the last five years. I don't really need a "year" of the desktop. All I needed was for it work on my desktop and it's been doing that quite nicely for some time.

When is cut and paste going to be even supported across applications in KDE or GNOME?

Well, text works okay...

Oh, text works ok? Well what about a piece of a picture or a clip of a wave?

Well, um, text works okay. I haven't tried anything else so I couldn't really tell you. Then again, my only exposure to pictures or sound clips in my clipboard was when Windows tried to tell me that I had a huge lump of something in my clipboard whenever I tried to quit Photoshop. So you and I definitely don't have the same needs for this particular item.

What about drag and drop? Can I just drop any document onto a printer icon and have it spit out the result? Without configuring 20 various text files?

I never dig figure out the 20 various text files to configure, but I've been able to drag a file icon onto my printer icon and have it print (correctly, even!) since around Fedora Core 2, so yeah, that works now.

... then perhaps there will be some sort of market ...

There already is a market, it's just not people stuck on waiting for Photoshop to come out for a particular platform. Besides, the words "Linux" and "market" just don't seem to go together in my mind. One doesn't really seem to need the other, and both will do quite nicely if they never meet each other. But maybe that's just me. I know Redhat and SuSE and Mandrake (and so on) must see some sort of market in Linux geeks, or they never would have bothered trying to make money from us in the first place.

But hey, I'm not going to tell you that you need to use Linux if what you really need is a platform that can run Photoshop natively. You and me, we're different markets.

Re:I gotta say

[Mornelithe]

When is cut and paste going to be even supported across applications in KDE or GNOME? Oh, text works ok? Well what about a piece of a picture or a clip of a wave?

I just went into kview, copied part of a picture, and pasted it into the GIMP. Then I went into kpdf, copied part of a page, and pasted that into the GIMP. Then I copied part of a page in kpdf, and pasted it into a konqueror window, and it asked me what filename I'd like, and turned it into a PNG image.

I don't have any sound editing software, so I can't test anything there.

Without configuring 20 various text files?

I haven't used text files to configure printers in a long time. With CUPS and KDE, you can just use their printer install wizard. It's about the same as installing a printer on Windows.

Re:what's the difference?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, remember that this is for GNOME 2.12, which is still only a glimmer in the developers' eyes. GNOME 2.12 will doubtless contain new features and stuff.

This theme is different from the old one because:
Old: Kinda grey
New: Almost orange, yellow, and XP Green(TM)

Old: Lines and bevels
New: Curves and gradients. And lots of rounded corners.

darwinports

[OmniVector]

if you're using os x, you can try it out in darwinports [opendarwin.org] by typing

port install gtk2-clearlooks

factoid

[Anonymous Coward]

This news factoid is merely rumour.

Please read this [gnome.org] for more information.

Re:Allmost noone ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Plastik is a dramatic improvement on Keramik, but it's still a tad too flashy for my tastes, and the bloody huge window decorations are just a waste of space.

Reduce the font size for the title bar text. The only reason the buttons are that big is because the title bar has to be enlarged for the text.

Re:rounded corners of the windows

[daniel borgmann]

No, the corners unfortunately can't be anti-aliased right now. That's one of the things we need composite for. :) I'm sure Havoc will support it quickly after composite becomes available by default.

Also I made the icons smaller in the latest release of the metacity theme, you can get it here:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?cont ent=212 37

I don't think it's perfect yet, the main focus has been on the Gtk engine.

Re:Hehe

[JamesHenstridge]

Actually, the "Human" theme that Ubuntu uses as default is based on Industrial (slightly different colours, and square corners on the windows). This may change in the future though.

Just one thing..

[omega9]

Sorry, but this story is bullshit.

All spelled out here. [gnome.org]