Carbon Themes (proposal)

johnraff · 2025-02-16 01:33:16

micko01 wrote:

micko01 wrote:
...jgmenu looks like crap with the labbe-materal-[bark|sage] icons. I wonder if we can make variants of material-solarized-suruplusplus in bark|sage ?
...just looked and they are SVG! A simple sed operation *should* be able to convert the whole lot
https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/e0/2c/4xsEVyMP_t.png

That looks great! Let's use those for sure.

johnraff · 2025-02-16 01:37:51

micko01 wrote:

Repos are up
https://github.com/01micko/material-sol … icons-bark
https://github.com/01micko/material-sol … icons-sage

How about adding the bark and sage variants to the existing BL package? No need to duplicate all the debianization for each one. Or maybe the size of each theme (~39MB) justifies splitting them up for users who only need one of them?

micko01 · 2025-02-16 01:38:54

Posted the repo links just before you posted

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 96#p141296

micko01 · 2025-02-16 01:40:57

johnraff wrote:

micko01 wrote:
Repos are up
https://github.com/01micko/material-sol … icons-bark
https://github.com/01micko/material-sol … icons-sage
How about adding the bark and sage variants to the existing BL package? No need to duplicate all the debianization for each one. Or maybe the size of each theme (~39MB) justifies splitting them up for users who only need one of them?

The solarized versions inherit the labbe-material versions anyways. Should I add them as deps or at least recommends?

johnraff · 2025-02-16 02:19:09

Just putting out what I see as our options for handling the panel on Carbon - X11 and Wayland. Not expressing a preference, just laying them out:

X11:
tint2 (Debian fix gets applied, or we build it ourselves) (provided there are no other bugs) working systray
xfce4-panel, round corners, margins, but systray issues
xfce4-panel (a new suggestion), square, 100% height, just a block that looks like part of the desktop, but still poor systray

Wayland:
xfce4-panel, round corners, margins, poor systray
sfwbar as already configured by micko01, round corners, margins, working systray
xfce4-panel (new suggestion), square, 100% height, just a block, poor systray

For Forky?
Tint2 almost certainly out of consideration unless a new developer picks it up.

X11:
xfce4-panel, hopefully with improved systray and margins by then

Wayland:
xfce4-panel
sfwbar

johnraff · 2025-02-16 02:33:17

micko01 wrote:

johnraff wrote:
micko01 wrote:
Repos are up
https://github.com/01micko/material-sol … icons-bark
https://github.com/01micko/material-sol … icons-sage
How about adding the bark and sage variants to the existing BL package? No need to duplicate all the debianization for each one. Or maybe the size of each theme (~39MB) justifies splitting them up for users who only need one of them?
The solarized versions inherit the labbe-material versions anyways. Should I add them as deps or at least recommends?

Recommends I think, especially if they end up packaged together with the existing solarized theme. Depends would be too restricting IMO.

Inheriting the related labbe theme would keep the colours matching so that's a plus, but even without labbe I think the non-matching icons should only appear in the auto-generated "applications" sub-menu. The hard-coded section can be arranged only to use solarized icons (it's a fairly complete set).

So labbe could even be a Suggests. We'll be shipping it in default BL Boron anyway of course.

novice · 2025-02-17 13:45:41

greenjeans wrote:

novice wrote:
Hi guys
I came across the Nordic themes and I made myself a nice blue/grey theme with Nordic-darker and a recoloured (and a bit modified) Material-Solarized-Saru++. I think those Saru icons look great with dark backgrounds especially on the panel:

https://i.imgur.com/n93wE4x.jpg
@novice that is just gorgeous, I think your mods and icon choice are just perfect. Any chance at all you could zip that up and throw it online someplace or e-mail it? I think it would be great for one of my projects i've got on the backburner.
(sorry for off-topic post guys).

I've sent you an email.

greenjeans · 2025-02-17 17:11:35

novice wrote:

I've sent you an email.

Thank you! Looking forward to trying it out!

Unfortunately I had a pipe burst in the basement last night, so life gets in the way of my Linux today....:(

Of all the trades I know, plumbing is my least favorite. *sigh*

johnraff · 2025-10-30 02:05:25

greenjeans wrote:

novice wrote:
I've sent you an email.
Thank you! Looking forward to trying it out!
Unfortunately I had a pipe burst in the basement last night...

Hi @greenjeans, I hope your plumbing issues got sorted out!

Unfortunately, that was the last we heard here from @novice. Did he send you the Nordic files?
That was a beautiful theme+ icons combination that it would be a shame to lose.
Of course, it's too late to make it part of default Carbon, but if it's all ready to use I'd love to package it up so people can install it as an alternative.

And I hope @novice is OK.

greenjeans · 2025-10-30 14:29:00

Hi John, yes he did e-mail me the theme, i've got it somewhere here, haven't had time to mess with it myself but it is gorgeous. Let me get a little more coffee in me and i'll find it...would you prefer I mail it to you or otherwise I could upload it to my Sourceforge account in the temp section so others here could access it as well?

johnraff · 2025-10-30 23:54:55

^If it's OK to share in the public domain, then maybe you could just upload it somewhere?

And if it's not OK to share, then we wouldn't be able to use it in BunsenLabs anyway.

Do you think the theme and icons are usable as-is, so all I'd have to do is package them up?

I guess a matching wallpaper would have to be found too.

greenjeans · 2025-10-31 00:05:05

I assume novice was okay with sharing it as he e-mailed it to me, so hopefully he's okay with sharing it. I uploaded it to my Sourceforge account : https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … neous/tmp/

I haven't tried it out completely so don't know all the details, but it's a lovely theme for sure and he did a lot of work on it.

johnraff · 2025-10-31 00:57:35

^Many thanks - safely downloaded.
So "Nordic-darker-standard-buttons" is the GTK theme I guess.
Do you know how to use the "modified Material Saru icons"? Add as a separate icon theme inheriting the main "Material-Solarized-Suru++" perhaps?
And he's even provided a matching wallpaper.

When I get round to packaging it (after Carbon release I expect) I'll copyright it to "novice", lacking any other information.

hhh · 2025-10-31 04:17:23

I'm a little hit-or-miss on these issues these days, but I give my blanket approval on theming. There is nothing regarding themes and icons and configs that can't be undone.

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