On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 17:15:46 +0100 Nicolas George <george nsup org> wrote:
Hi.
Over the years, I have found that I really dislike the default look
and feel of Gtk+ 3 (borders that waste screen real estate, gradients
and rounded corners that give a runny feeling, annoying animations; I
felt the same way about some versions of Qt). Until now, I used only
a few applications based on it, I could ignore it. But now Firefox
uses it, I can no longer.
I have started writing a few CSS rules to reduce that. For now, I have
this:
* {
border-radius: 0;
}
entry {
min-height: 20px;
transition: none;
border-style: inset;
border-width: 2px;
}
But instead of spending time on it, I wonder if somebody already did
it. Does anybody know something like that? Either a reasonably simple
set of CSS rules to make Gtk+ 3 look more like Gtk+ 2 or, even better
(at least if maintained), a full theme to that effect.
My searches on the web did not produce anything.
I also dislike the new "Adwaita" look. (Phone-sized buttons? Pah!) This guy has done quite a job of creating a Raleigh-like (and NeXTSTEP-like) theme that works in both GTK2 and GTK3 (3.18 and 3.20). This is probably a good place to start. He calls his theme OneStepBack. https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1013663/ I used his CSS as a starting point in my project: (It works in GTK 3.20 and 3.22 for the most part.) https://gitlab.com/KlipKyle/Blueshell And now, I'm starting another theme, this time Raleigh-like. I have not come around to GTK3 yet, but I will get there eventually. This time, I will be doing GTK 3.18 first, because that is what is in Slackware. (But don't be surprised if you see a lot of OneStepBack-like CSS.) https://github.com/KlipperKyle/Irvine
Side question: is it possible to disable client-side decoration with CSS?
Not that I know of, but I am far from an expert in this area. I am just someone so sick of the "new look" that I felt the urge to start designing my own themes. If you find a way, please let me know. I don't like client-side decorations either. Another note: GTK 3.18 CSS is entirely different from GTK 3.20 and later. Why? I don't know. I guess people like to break things. ;-) I hope this information may be of use. --Kyle -- The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. - Frank Zappa
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