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Union

Union is a theme crossbred between Basic Ideals and another (unnamed?) concept theme by floodcasso2. The name is derived from the fusion of the two themes.

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/BasicIdeals Basic Ideals]

• [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2620273#post2620273 floodcasso2's Theme]

' Message from the Author ' The 0.4 update is the last update the primary author of this theme will be able to make. If you have time, and experience with GIMP and Inkscape, please feel free to use the assets of this theme to make your own version of Union. Others are working on getting close to the Union mockup in a live and working theme.

So in the mean time thank you for stopping by, and please, enjoy the gallery. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

• -- Ken Vermette

Concept

Currently Union is a Compositing-enabled Murinne theme based on technology by Cimi, within the Gnome GTK+ framework. Graphics are created in SVG format, as to enable scaling when the technology becomes available.

Goal

There are no GTK themes available as of yet, the theme so far is only within concept stages. The theme goals are to:

• Be extremely clean with minimal clutter; Avoid information overflow.
• Use sharp graphics and smooth gradients; Make the theme clear-cut yet gentle.
• Showcase a unique visual identity; People know Ubuntu when they see it.
• Look solid, yet lightweight; People hate flimsy feeling windows and being weighed down.
• Demonstrate the cutting edge without overstepping; Use as much technology we have, use very little we don't.
• Display the graphical prowess of Linux; Some people still think we only have command-line.

Feature Concepts

Below is a list of extra buttons or anything that would be considered really "new"

Media

Palette

Pallet images will be available at a future date. All colours used are derived from the official Ubuntu palette.

Version 0.4

Source Files:

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Union?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Union_v0-4.xcf GIMP .xcf]

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Union?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Union_v0-4.svg InkScape .svg]

Theme Rendition

Alternate Wallpapers

Updates

• Updated min/max/close buttons to be less rounded
• Modifed the panel buttons to show more easily
• Modifed tooltip to better match the theme.
• Removed rounded corners from outer panels
• Used new behind-window blurring technique.

Version 0.3

Source Files:

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Union?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Union_v0-3.xcf GIMP .xcf]

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Union?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Union_v0-3.svg InkScape .svg]

Theme Rendition

Alternate Wallpapers

Version 0.2

Source Files:

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Union?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Union_v0-2.xcf GIMP .xcf]

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Union?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Union_v0-2.svg InkScape .svg]

Theme Rendition

Alternate Wallpapers

Version 0.1

The background of this theme is a union between two desktop wallpapers, they will be linked when the links are re-discovered, and instructions will be provided to re-create the wallpaper.

Source Files:

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Union?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Union_v0-1.xcf GIMP .xcf]

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Union?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Union_v0-1.svg InkScape .svg]

Theme Rendition

Contributions

Below are Unoffical variations of Union, great job and kudos to the authors!

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Development Assets

Below is a .zip file (sorry, no tar.gz) of the union development assets. It's just a huge .zip of everything here plus a couple extra images and raw files.

The Emerald, GTK and Metacity themes are very incomplete, barely modified versions of other themes. Some members of the Art Team have began work on the Union versions of the theme, and assets are very likely to show up on this wiki or Gnome-look. The exact locations are undetermined. More up-to-date files are not necessarily in this collection, as this is a snapshot of my development files before the computer they were on died.

Comments

I really like it, though I think that the colors need to be tweaked a bit. I also noticed that this theme has the same idea as my theme unity. It might look good if basic ideals is combined with mine. - JM55: December 25, 2007 13:09 GMT

This is certainly one of the most promising looking concepts, however, how practical is it? Could you perhaps post some mockups of some basic applications (gedit, gnome-calculator, etc.). I'm not entirely certain the window design lends itself well to windows with an "editing area" (usually white). As for feasability, I don't think I can see anything in the design that's not entirely feasible with Murrine. Although I think one or two of the window decorator features might not be possible in gtk-window-decorator. - Nick Telford: December 30, 2007 13:20 GMT

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