[Gimp-user] How to design new GIMP themes from scratch

[devvv <forums gimpusers com>]

> Hi guys,
>
> I've been using GIMP for years now, even professionally for the last
> year. There's one thing I still haven't ever done, and would love to
> do: designing a new interface for GIMP from scratch. I'm just not sure
> how to go about it.
>
> I could of course take the images of another theme and edit them as I
> see fit, and publish the final result as a new skin. But I don't want
> to do that - I want to do a proper job and design one from scratch.
>
> I have searched for a tutorial about this, but strangely enough,
> haven't found any.
>
> The graphical part is not an issue. It's the technical part I'm not
> sure about, like for example:
> - how do I make sure I get all the necessary image files? Is there an
> encrypted theme file or something I have to unzip or whatever?
> - are there any additional programs I need to use to do that?
> - same for putting it together: Do I need to compile the images into a
> theme file, and if so, what program do I need for that?
>
> And also:
> - are there any tutorials around about this that I might have missed
> - is there a popular location where new GIMP theme are hosted and
> shared?
>
> There are obviously people who know how to do this, since there are
> plenty of good themes around. I would really appreciate it if someone
> could help me out with this.
>
>
> Thanks in advance!

Afaik you'll have to really get into GTK2 theming because GIMP 2.8 is mostly
based on GTK2 to my knowledge - only some widgets are used from gtk3. However
themeing in gtk2 and gtk3 is taking place differently. In GTK3 it's mostly CSS
based while in gtk2 it's not.

I however cannot give you more information about the theming itself, the only
thing I tried was to theme the whole desktop environment (Ubuntu) and it also
affected GIMP of course. But it was too time-intense so I skipped that ;)

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