by BBOSAK2143 » Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:45 pm
Thanks very much!!!! It was a lot of work and am now going to retire from that area for a bit! Got heckled on Gnome-looks by most likely someone who never put one together yet! Still, am beat on it and need a rest on them! They are very complicated and is no wonder so much havoc is caused by them! I got into this deal cause my all time fav Nissl-Adwaita-Dark-4 bit the dust once Gnome 3.8 arrived! Now due to some wording in that theme and its brilliant gtkrc sheet, I was able to find my errors and fix them! I then was able to reproduce Nissl-Remix, I call it as a great substitute for my beloved theme! I did one last version of The Red and the Black plus put all the repair versions of themes I had done in the last month. All have all colors in the gtk-main.css. The rest of the sheets, minus settings.ini, gtkrc and the 2 xml sheets have all wording. What this does is make it possible for a user to change the entire theme in about 15 or 20 minutes if they know their colors and what they want! Believe me, as I redid all 8 of the Ambiance versions I had messed up plus did these last two themes in one day! In the past would take me close to 3 days to find all the numbers and replace them. So least I was able to give something back, finally! I dumped all the original as there were errors enough to shake the upper task bar when switching to them! Was not a bad as other themes, but enough to not want to use them! Now am happy to say all just go right in with no hassle, whatsoever!
From this adventure I have learned that the reason Gnome 3.8 works terrible at times is because of all the conflicts! As I stated one part of the theme is telling it to turn something on and the other says off! Now when that theme goes to load, takes a dump! Is not because of all the update fancy dancy gtk and all other wording you can find! It is simply because of the old on, off computer theory we have all heard since learning in school! In layman's terms you can not turn something on and off at the same time! It is just not possible!!!! I also suppose that in the past, Gnome was a bit more forgiving when it came to errors of not identifying sizes using "px". Is not the case now and so many errors in that just cause it to flop and not work! Not sure who wrote gnome-applications.css but that one has some real trouble in it! Sure there are great lines in there, but some have way way too many errors. I found the necessary lines, added them in and watched as the theme reacted normally! Was awesome! To me it seemed that piece was put in there to make the additions and then dump! See most of the lines in widgets will work the entire system without hassle, so most of it is double talk! Still there are those few missing pieces and was great to add them in! Also there were extra pieces which caused major friction, so they were removed and commented out!
Am happy to say my desktop is working about 50x better! Every boot I used to watch things not loading, now they are! Now am just back to the normal here and there Nemo falls asleep!!!! Hey he works hard playing with Nautilus so I guess he deserves a rest once in awhile, right? Agree with Xan that Nemo is a clownfish! Still like the looks, but will say if Nautilus had the icons would probably heave ho on Nemo! Also got lucky adding a line at the beginning which adds a neat little glo and adds a little look to Nautilus, Brasero and Gnome Tweak! Hmm, maybe I did learn the java after all!!!! Well, will be around and be looking at other things soon! Just want to help and just hope this all helps everyone here and out there!!! Take care and always best wishes the best forum ever!!!!!
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