MX Fluxbox Screenshots

[Melber]

Oh man @kobaian,
I managed to convince Jerry to banish those brushed metal icons from exit-options and then you come along with a brushed metal desktop...All hail pancake UI's.

[kobaian]

Oh man @kobaian,
I managed to convince Jerry to banish those brushed metal icons from exit-options and then you come along with a brushed metal desktop...All hail pancake UI's.

This retro-theme match the aluminum case of my machine very well. I didn't like the icons together with MX-Comfort, but I like them together with some retro styles like this one: https://www.pling.com/p/1016687 . It is a pity, that it is rather easy to find a good retro gtk2-theme, but it is so hard to find a matching retro gtk3-theme... That's why I prefer mostly modern themes, but for that particular macbook I make an exemption.

[siamhie]

It's a funny thing that back when computers were so limited for CPU (and GPU) power the GUI's were so rich and image heavy with depth, now we all have blazing fast CPU/GPU/memory and the UX world is flat as a pancake..

I sure miss the icons from yesteryear.

kde1.png

[siamhie]

(and if anyone knows how to change the menu radio and check buttons in thunar, please share. Just editing the colours in the svg files doesn't work.)

@Melber I've gotten as far as blacking everything out so far. Still more to learn.


thunar.png

I found something, is that what you mean?

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menuitem:hover {background: #6d7578;}
.thunar menuitem { background-color:  #ff66ff; }
menuitem { background-color:  #ff66ff; }

@tequila That seems to work for me.

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.thunar .standard-view .view { background-color: #000000; }
.thunar .standard-view .view:selected { background-color: #0F56D9; }
.thunar .sidebar .view { background-color: #000000; }
.thunar .sidebar .view:selected { background-color: #0F56D9; }
.thunar toolbar, .thunar toolbar entry  { background-color: #000000; }
.thunar menubar, .thunar menubar entry  { background-color: #000000; }
.thunar menuitem { background-color:  #0F56D9; }

blacknblue.png

[AVLinux]

It's funny I don't really have a preference, I love a good simple flat theme like @Melber when all of the attributes pull together cohesively, but I also love the Enlightenment 'Dark' theme on some of my installs where it is very textured and skeumorphic but all fits togther so well with so much attention to detail. I agree with @kobaian that sometime the machine and it's purpose kind of dictate what the theme should look like.

It is sad that GTK3/4 themes don't have some variety of choice and that there are virtually no icon sets that are remotely 3D looking (as @siamhie said) For me it's not so much the old style of the icons, just that they are more dimensional. I would say of modern themes, Faenza and Evolvere are the best options but they are also 90% flat..

[Melber]

...and if anyone knows how to change the menu radio and check buttons in thunar, please share. Just editing the colours in the svg files doesn't work.

@tequila thanks for the suggestions, not quite what I was looking for.
What I meant were the little tick and circle icons in the drop down menus.
I think I've got it now

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.thunar radio:checked {-gtk-icon-source: -gtk-scaled(url("assets/radio-checked.svg")) }

.thunar check:checked {-gtk-icon-source: -gtk-scaled(url("assets/checkbox-checked.svg")) }

The colours in the referenced svg's have been edited.
Non MX-Comfort themes sometimes use different file names or png instead of svg.

230825-thunar.png

[tequila]

I had some fun, the result:~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

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.thunar menuitem:hover {background: #5c5a57;}
.thunar menuitem { background-color:  #00e6ac; }
.thunar menuitem { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; }
/*would like to reduce the line spacing of my context menu*/
menuitem { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; }
menuitem:hover {background: #6d7578;}
menuitem { background-color: #00ccff; }
/* sidebar */
.thunar .sidebar .view { background-color: #66ccff; }
.thunar .sidebar .view:hover { background-color: #B5BABC; }
.thunar .sidebar .view:selected { background-color: #0F56D9; }
/* main view */
.thunar .standard-view .view { background-color: #b8b894; }
/* status bar */
.thunar grid paned grid  { background-color: #a1a8aa;}
/* toolbar */
.thunar toolbar, .thunar toolbar entry  { background-color: #a1a8aa; }
.thunar :focus, :drop(active) { border: 2px solid #ADFF08; }
/*.thunar {font-size:18pt }  /*set size font */
.thunar .view:selected { background-color: #997300; }  

[siamhie]

I was able to find some 3D icons on gnome-look that I like. https://www.gnome-look.org/p/2039492

3D-icons.png

[AVLinux]

I was able to find some 3D icons on gnome-look that I like. https://www.gnome-look.org/p/2039492

I often find those kinds of themes (also the Steampunk ones) often are lacking so many Icons for current apps and mimetypes that they are kind of unusable because if your fallback is Papirus or Breeze the mismatched look is pretty hideous.. Of course all just opinion.. Have you found anything that does a reasonable job as as fallback with those?

[siamhie]

I was able to find some 3D icons on gnome-look that I like. https://www.gnome-look.org/p/2039492

I often find those kinds of themes (also the Steampunk ones) often are lacking so many Icons for current apps and mimetypes that they are kind of unusable because if your fallback is Papirus or Breeze the mismatched look is pretty hideous.. Of course all just opinion.. Have you found anything that does a reasonable job as as fallback with those?

@AVLinux I looked at the total count of 32x32 icons in LTF and it is just over 3600 files compared to the Papirus count of 8300 files. It seems there are a ton of sym linked icons in Papirus tho.



What I was not expecting to see in this icon set were these MX specific icons.

mx-icons.jpg