Description: A GNOME-Shell - Light and Dark Mode Theme - Based on the Official Color Pallet Created by Ethan Schoonover.
Solarized Deluxe Icons, Folders, and Animated Cursors are available here at: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1312499/
Solarized Matching GTK Light & Dark Themes are available here at: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1309911/ https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1311022/
Solarized Light and Dark Modes - as originally created by Ethan Schoonover - are the highly valued color schemes for code editors and terminal emulators. These GNOME-Shell dark-mode-schemes strictly adhere to Ethan Schoonover's original color scheme, which has been published for many major applications, with some including the scheme pre-installed. Coders and GUI users, alike, know that - once you try Solarized-Dark - it is hard to go back to anything else.
In His Own Words:
"Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications. It has several unique properties. I designed this colorscheme with both precise CIELAB lightness relationships and a refined set of hues based on fixed color wheel relationships. It has been tested extensively in real world use on color calibrated displays (as well as uncalibrated/intentionally miscalibrated displays) and in a variety of lighting conditions." https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/
The GNOME-Shell theme represents a careful blending of modernized Numix elements, in tandem with those of minimalist artist Rafa Capoci, theme designer Wojciech Kalinowski, and full-stack web-developer/themer Pavel Agarkov, with an overlay of the original standard Solarized theming created by Ethan Schoonover.
Manual Installation Is Easy:
1) Extract the "tar.xz" file into your "~/.themes/" folder - to install for current user only - or into the "/usr/share/themes/" folder - for the theme to be applied globally. 2) Use the GNOME Tweak Tool or an equivalent app to enable it for your desktop.
Logging out and then logging back in may be necessary on some operating systems to fully implement themes.Last changelog:
13-12-19 version 1.9
Both Light and Dark variants underwent a complete rebuild.
8The great Solarized theme for Gnome Shell. Love it!
A little suggestion for improvement: The menu text is unfortunately white-grey instead of cyan as in the preview pictures.
Hello, I am a developer for rtl88-Themes. This the way the theme will be for now. However, there is a new GNOME-Shell Solarized which I developed for our team, at the link below:
https://www.pling.com/p/1350648/
Perhaps one of the seven color variants will be to your liking. If not, please don't ask me to change any part of the color scheme for your personal tastes. We dropped what we were doing, the last time, to accommodate your new OS, and you did not even notice for nearly three weeks. And though it rendered your text perfectly, you still complain. No offense intended, we truly do hope to satisfy all of our users, just saying.
Best regards, Rikard Jungman.
First of all: Thanks for your efforts! (I would also be happy to invite you for a beer here in Berlin.)
I was on holidays, so I didn't notice it earlier.
This was not intended as a complaint and I didn't want to appear ungrateful.
I'll check out the new color variants, thx.
jungman can be ruthless - lol.
@foobar, as I invariably suggest vis-a-vis these sorts of (specific) needs, just pm me, and let me know what you are looking for, in your scheme; and I'll see what I can do for you. Fair enough?
I have a problem with the Solarized-Dark Gnome-Shell theme: https://imgur.com/2ZmtuF6 I can't read the text, because the text is too dark.
(I don't have this problem with the Light shell version.)
# gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 3.34.1
This is what it looks like, right now, on a GNOME tester machine:
https://cdn.pling.com/img/9/6/5/1/d0c659d84c5f5e08ea0305ffc36ba7c923ae.png
I also noticed you put up this rating and review:
https://cdn.pling.com/img/8/1/5/3/be9914254bd7f275c5efa585c4fea920487e.png
I'm not sure why your version of GNOME is doing that, but if you like the the full theme version of the shell, you can take the entire gnome-shell folder out of the theme's main folder and it will be just the shell at that point. Let me know, and thanks for the 10!
Same problem when I'm using the shell theme from the full theme package (Solarized-Dark-GTK), GTK windows looking good, but shell doesn't: https://imgur.com/UrWowMA (I also just noticed the notification box: looks like it's mixing dark and light theme?)
thx for your help!
Okay, I'll put my best member on it asap, and see if we can figure out what is happening on your box versus ours. Solarized is an important theme to a lot of people.
It hasn't been updated in a month, so perhaps we're just dealing with a match up challenge vis-a-vis your distro's 3.34.1. The tester machine, here, is openSUSE, what is yours, so we can go from there?
Good deal, Give us a day or so. Keep your notifications on, or check back in a day (or two at the most). If it is isolated to Ubuntu: 19.10, then a file will be added for that version of the distro. We've had to do that before, in similar situations. Thank you for the feedback, and use of the theme, foobar.
Ohh I missed that. Thank you so much for fixing it! I love this theme!
Small question: In the old version the menu text was cyan and now it's grey. Is this an intentional change? (I liked the cyan one more.)
Ratings & Comments
31 Comments
8 Excellent, elegant and beautifull
10 10 the best
8 The great Solarized theme for Gnome Shell. Love it! A little suggestion for improvement: The menu text is unfortunately white-grey instead of cyan as in the preview pictures.
Hello, I am a developer for rtl88-Themes. This the way the theme will be for now. However, there is a new GNOME-Shell Solarized which I developed for our team, at the link below: https://www.pling.com/p/1350648/ Perhaps one of the seven color variants will be to your liking. If not, please don't ask me to change any part of the color scheme for your personal tastes. We dropped what we were doing, the last time, to accommodate your new OS, and you did not even notice for nearly three weeks. And though it rendered your text perfectly, you still complain. No offense intended, we truly do hope to satisfy all of our users, just saying. Best regards, Rikard Jungman.
First of all: Thanks for your efforts! (I would also be happy to invite you for a beer here in Berlin.) I was on holidays, so I didn't notice it earlier. This was not intended as a complaint and I didn't want to appear ungrateful. I'll check out the new color variants, thx.
@ foobar, check out this one, too: https://www.pling.com/p/1352834/
jungman can be ruthless - lol. @foobar, as I invariably suggest vis-a-vis these sorts of (specific) needs, just pm me, and let me know what you are looking for, in your scheme; and I'll see what I can do for you. Fair enough?
9 9 excellent, great job!
Total rebuild to accommodate Ubuntu: 19.10 (others distros will notice a few nice tweaks too)
I have a problem with the Solarized-Dark Gnome-Shell theme: https://imgur.com/2ZmtuF6 I can't read the text, because the text is too dark. (I don't have this problem with the Light shell version.) # gnome-shell --version GNOME Shell 3.34.1
This is what it looks like, right now, on a GNOME tester machine: https://cdn.pling.com/img/9/6/5/1/d0c659d84c5f5e08ea0305ffc36ba7c923ae.png I also noticed you put up this rating and review: https://cdn.pling.com/img/8/1/5/3/be9914254bd7f275c5efa585c4fea920487e.png I'm not sure why your version of GNOME is doing that, but if you like the the full theme version of the shell, you can take the entire gnome-shell folder out of the theme's main folder and it will be just the shell at that point. Let me know, and thanks for the 10!
Same problem when I'm using the shell theme from the full theme package (Solarized-Dark-GTK), GTK windows looking good, but shell doesn't: https://imgur.com/UrWowMA (I also just noticed the notification box: looks like it's mixing dark and light theme?) thx for your help!
Okay, I'll put my best member on it asap, and see if we can figure out what is happening on your box versus ours. Solarized is an important theme to a lot of people. It hasn't been updated in a month, so perhaps we're just dealing with a match up challenge vis-a-vis your distro's 3.34.1. The tester machine, here, is openSUSE, what is yours, so we can go from there?
> I even tried it with a new fresh user account to be sure that I don't have any old conflicting configs. Gnome: 3.34.1 Ubuntu: 19.10
Good deal, Give us a day or so. Keep your notifications on, or check back in a day (or two at the most). If it is isolated to Ubuntu: 19.10, then a file will be added for that version of the distro. We've had to do that before, in similar situations. Thank you for the feedback, and use of the theme, foobar.
Hi and happy new year! Any updates on this problem?
19 days ago: "Total rebuild to accommodate Ubuntu: 19.10" Hundreds of happy users since: https://www.pling.com/p/1317646/ Best of luck to you.
Sorry, here is the screenshot. https://cdn.pling.com/img/6/0/7/b/77af5a6864b5826786bd70b05ae98eb096bb.png
Ohh I missed that. Thank you so much for fixing it! I love this theme! Small question: In the old version the menu text was cyan and now it's grey. Is this an intentional change? (I liked the cyan one more.)
I even tried it with a new fresh user account to be sure that I don't have any old conflicting configs. Gnome: 3.34.1 Ubuntu: 19.10
10 10 the best
10 10 the best
9 9 excellent
8 8 great
8 8 great