Description: This is my dark theme with blue colors. It is based on Numix,Libra and Unite I have tried to make it as clean as possible and uniform between GTK2 and GTK3.
Don't forget to vote if you like it !
ATTENTION!
It's created for XFCE. No guarantees for other desktop environments (for now)
There were a few gtk warnings for missing units and one or two other things in gtk-widget.css
I "fixed" (changed so it no longer warns) in the file below. Just run a diff and see what changes are appropriate.
http://www.filedropper.com/gtk-widgets
Hello vasya86, first of all you did a really great job with this theme, I really like it. Actually I use it as my default gtk2 theme on gnome-shell, but with some apps I can't see the text of options in checkbox and radiobuttons. The problem is that the color of unselected radio/check box text is a blue that is not easily distinguishable to the background which is dark. I have been trying to change the text font to white or to some better color , I tried edit every color entry of your gtk2rc code but I couldn't find. I would appreciate if you show me how to change the color for unselected radio/check box text. Thank you!
Love your work! Any possibility you might consider a version with a slightly softer contrast in system fonts e.g. the over-all white in Thunar and throughout Xfce would be a bit softer if they were light-grey ish instead of white. I'm definitely going to be using your theme on several boxes in any case :)
Many thanks for this beautiful theme - finally a dark theme that works across all applications in both GTK2 and GTK3 and that looks nice; clean, simple and tidy. Well done! I have been using XFCE-Dusk for years, mainly because of the lack of any sensible alternatives, but since it doesn't work in GTK3 many applications have the default appearance. I have tried tons of different dark themes but they've all had some fatal flaws - most commonly not being actually "dark", but some sort of horrible mid grey compromise. This is by far the best attempt I've seen! Theming is not a hobby of mine, and I don't want to make it one - it's quite absurd to think that over the years I have literally spent days of my time trying to get a dark desktop, without ever succeeding. Why so complicated? This situation badly needs to improve. Meanwhile, it looks like Mona is the way forward! I found a few niggly little bugs though:
The top-left application icon is broken in all windows (GTK2 and GTK3); there is no icon displayed, and when I hover over it four small rapidly flashing blue squares appear. Maybe I'm missing some GTK engine?
Text input boxes have the same background colour as the main application background; I would much prefer this to be a darker shade. The same goes for the address bar in Firefox.
The distinction between selected and non-selected tabs is a little too subtle - would it be possible for example to make the tab titles in non-selected tabs just a shade darker than that of the selected tab?
In some applications (GTK3?), the scrollbar background is the same light-blue colour as the slider has when you drag it (e.g. "Settings Manager").
The "roll-up" button in window title bars has a background colour, while the minimise/maximise buttons do not.
When I hover over icons in (for example) "Settings Manager", the icons go dark in a sort of "disabled" fashion.
And I don't know if this is something that's controlled by themes or not, but window borders are so thin it is very difficult to grab hold of a window edge to resize the window; It's like there's just one single pixel where the pointer changes to the resize action. This is nothing new though - it has annoyed me for years!
I should add perhaps, that I'm sort of using Xubuntu 14.04, but built from a minimal install (i.e. apt-get install xfce4 from a plain Ubuntu command line environment) - I'm very much in the camp that prefers the very minimum in terms of eye-candy and whizz-bangery.
I have uploaded a screenshot of what KeepassX looks like with Mona 1.0 - it shows both the text field background-colour problem, and the issue with the top-left application icon (though in reality those four squares flicker rapidly). It also shows that checkboxes in some applications look a little... 20th century?
It made my desktop much better! Dark themes, for me, makes desktop more sophisticated. Congrats for the nice theme. It's the one Dark that is nice.
However, I think you should improve the theme for window decoration. The Mona for GTK+ is nice, but for the window decoration it's not so cool. I'm using the Adwaita-X-Dark for that... together, I think, Mona and Adwaita-X-Dark is better!
Thx.
add this to you gtk-2.0 gtkrc file and text fields will be fixed (radio buttons still aren't though):
#### Firefox text fix goes inside the theme name/gtk-2.0/gtkrc (or an app
#### fix in the gtk-2.0/styles) This should work with all problematic
#### dark themes in Firefox
style "ff" {
text[NORMAL] = "#000000"
base[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF"
}
class "GtkInvisible" style "ff"
widget "GtkInvisible" style "ff"
###### End of Firefox fix
Ratings & Comments
15 Comments
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When I navigate categories in Whisker menu with TAB key, I cannot see which category is focused until after I select it with Enter.
There were a few gtk warnings for missing units and one or two other things in gtk-widget.css I "fixed" (changed so it no longer warns) in the file below. Just run a diff and see what changes are appropriate. http://www.filedropper.com/gtk-widgets
Hello vasya86, first of all you did a really great job with this theme, I really like it. Actually I use it as my default gtk2 theme on gnome-shell, but with some apps I can't see the text of options in checkbox and radiobuttons. The problem is that the color of unselected radio/check box text is a blue that is not easily distinguishable to the background which is dark. I have been trying to change the text font to white or to some better color , I tried edit every color entry of your gtk2rc code but I couldn't find. I would appreciate if you show me how to change the color for unselected radio/check box text. Thank you!
Love your work! Any possibility you might consider a version with a slightly softer contrast in system fonts e.g. the over-all white in Thunar and throughout Xfce would be a bit softer if they were light-grey ish instead of white. I'm definitely going to be using your theme on several boxes in any case :)
Many thanks for this beautiful theme - finally a dark theme that works across all applications in both GTK2 and GTK3 and that looks nice; clean, simple and tidy. Well done! I have been using XFCE-Dusk for years, mainly because of the lack of any sensible alternatives, but since it doesn't work in GTK3 many applications have the default appearance. I have tried tons of different dark themes but they've all had some fatal flaws - most commonly not being actually "dark", but some sort of horrible mid grey compromise. This is by far the best attempt I've seen! Theming is not a hobby of mine, and I don't want to make it one - it's quite absurd to think that over the years I have literally spent days of my time trying to get a dark desktop, without ever succeeding. Why so complicated? This situation badly needs to improve. Meanwhile, it looks like Mona is the way forward! I found a few niggly little bugs though:The top-left application icon is broken in all windows (GTK2 and GTK3); there is no icon displayed, and when I hover over it four small rapidly flashing blue squares appear. Maybe I'm missing some GTK engine?
Text input boxes have the same background colour as the main application background; I would much prefer this to be a darker shade. The same goes for the address bar in Firefox.
The distinction between selected and non-selected tabs is a little too subtle - would it be possible for example to make the tab titles in non-selected tabs just a shade darker than that of the selected tab?
In some applications (GTK3?), the scrollbar background is the same light-blue colour as the slider has when you drag it (e.g. "Settings Manager").
The "roll-up" button in window title bars has a background colour, while the minimise/maximise buttons do not.
When I hover over icons in (for example) "Settings Manager", the icons go dark in a sort of "disabled" fashion.
And I don't know if this is something that's controlled by themes or not, but window borders are so thin it is very difficult to grab hold of a window edge to resize the window; It's like there's just one single pixel where the pointer changes to the resize action. This is nothing new though - it has annoyed me for years!
I should add perhaps, that I'm sort of using Xubuntu 14.04, but built from a minimal install (i.e. apt-get install xfce4 from a plain Ubuntu command line environment) - I'm very much in the camp that prefers the very minimum in terms of eye-candy and whizz-bangery.
I have uploaded a screenshot of what KeepassX looks like with Mona 1.0 - it shows both the text field background-colour problem, and the issue with the top-left application icon (though in reality those four squares flicker rapidly). It also shows that checkboxes in some applications look a little... 20th century?
Thanks for the feedback. I will try to fix the bugs in the next update.
Dōmo arigatō!
It made my desktop much better! Dark themes, for me, makes desktop more sophisticated. Congrats for the nice theme. It's the one Dark that is nice. However, I think you should improve the theme for window decoration. The Mona for GTK+ is nice, but for the window decoration it's not so cool. I'm using the Adwaita-X-Dark for that... together, I think, Mona and Adwaita-X-Dark is better! Thx.
great looking theme. It's a shame that it types in white colour in some forms in firefox, even though the background color of the forms is white.
I am aware of this problem and I will try to fix it as soon as possible.
add this to you gtk-2.0 gtkrc file and text fields will be fixed (radio buttons still aren't though): #### Firefox text fix goes inside the theme name/gtk-2.0/gtkrc (or an app #### fix in the gtk-2.0/styles) This should work with all problematic #### dark themes in Firefox style "ff" { text[NORMAL] = "#000000" base[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF" } class "GtkInvisible" style "ff" widget "GtkInvisible" style "ff" ###### End of Firefox fix
Added Firefox fix