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 * I really don't like the big bold border and the whole theme seems too light. Maybe add a bit more contrast?

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Ubuntunion

Ubuntunion shall become a GTK and Metacity/Emerald theme. The idea behind it is that every window - including the title bar - shall appear as an union, with no lines seperating it (same idea as behind Sapiens).

Concept

Around every window, there is a rounded border that forms a frame for the union that the window shall be. Inside the window, there are ideally no lines or colored areas that seperate the whole window. The different parts of a window (title bars, menus, toolbars...) are seperated by gradient lines, seperating and uniting them at the same time. The colors used come from the Tango Desktop Project color palette, thus Tango/Tangerine would be the preferred icon theme for this concept. Orange is used for highlights like the border of an active window or highlighted text, white for backgrounds, and gray for other parts (like borders of buttons, seperators, borders of inactive windows).

Anchor(Palette) Palette

attachment:ubuntunionpalette.png

Anchor(ConceptArt) Concept Art

attachment:ubuntunion1_tn.png

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[attachment:ubuntunion1.png Full size] Image by Plippo

[attachment:ubuntunion2.png Full size] Image by Plippo

First mockup of nautilus in Ubuntunion theme

Widgets for Ubuntunion theme

Desktop color is only a placeholder for some nice background image

Reference

Sample Downloads

I've created a first version of the Metacity theme (contains the window borders and title bar). It doesn't look that well without a fitting GTK2 theme, but if you change the background color of your GTK2 theme to pure white it's OK. attachment:ubuntunion.tar.gz

A first rough version of a GTK2 theme (using the pixmap engine) will follow as soon as I find the time to create it.

Contributions

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Comments

Please share your opinions and ideas with me:

  • This is a nice idea, how it seems too simple for my liking. Also, I do think you need to use that strong orange colour a bit more, otherwise, keep up the great work! --LostOverThereDateTime

    • Thank you. Simplicity is one aim of this theme, so I probably won't be able to change this. I've added a new mockup which shows ideas for the design of widgets, where you see how the orange color is used in different places. If you have any ideas how I could use more orange at specific places, please let me know. I also plan to create a dark (or half dark) version of the theme soon. -- PlippoDateTime

  • Wow, I love it! Finally a theme that I think could be the new default. Its so bright and cheerful, I like how it uses the signature Orange that Ubuntu is known for without overdoing it. I would love to see this as the default theme for Intrepid. -- GHRobson
  • Not too excited with the buttons, but definitely brilliant borders. I love its simplicity. --dandesigns
  • I really don't like the big bold border and the whole theme seems too light. Maybe add a bit more contrast?

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