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Dr.Strangelove

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From: A movie from the early 60s

Registered: 2019-12-10

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Light, consistent Theme for Carbon

Just installed Carbon on a new machine intended to be my main workhorse for probably at least the next three years. The machine that will be substituted by it was also running Bunsenlabs, as was its predecessor.
I love me an OS that just keeps out of the way, receives the necessary security updates and lets me do my work.

If I see it correctly, there are two themes specifically designed for Carbon (as concerns e.g. the taskbar) included, and both are dark. For my aging eyes, I need to get more light into them and thus am looking for a light theme that is applied in a consistent manner -- I am no expert in themeing, but that probably means that the openbox theme, the themeing for KDE and GTK programs, the icon set and whatnot are included. Reasonably high contrast is also a necessity, I am not talking about a high-contrast-optimization, but anything like medium grey text on a light grey background, as seen on too many websites these days, would be bad.

Is there such a thing? Will one be included in further updates? Not wanting to complain about a gift horse's teeth, but at least one good light theme would have been great.

If there is a documentation what it needs to make a truely consistent theme, I am willing to give it a try, but I'd rather just take a functioning existing one and be done with it ;-)
Please advise.

Anyway, many many thanks for Bunsenlabs, and for Crunchbang before (if any dev from that time is still around) -- it has made my life easier and more pleasant.

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"He changed it when he became a citizen. Used to be Merkwuerdigeliebe."

hhh

Gaucho

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Re: Light, consistent Theme for Carbon

^ There are light versions of both of the default Adwaita/Yaru themes in the default carbon install. There are also several other light themes for gtk, openbox and xfce4-notifyd on carbon. I'd be glad to give a walkthrough of how to change all the different settings to set it all (the settings are all under "User Settings, then Appearance, ObConf, Notifications will get you most of the way there). If something like "Lithium-light" doesn't work, we'll find you something else.

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Dr.Strangelove

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From: A movie from the early 60s

Registered: 2019-12-10

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Re: Light, consistent Theme for Carbon

That'd be great, thanks.
The Adwaita/Yaru themes are "full" bunsen themes, or openbox only?
I'll be able to have a look at it in maybe 12 or more hours, appreciate the offer.

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"Strangelove? What kind of a name is that? That ain't no Kraut name, is it, Stainesey?"
"He changed it when he became a citizen. Used to be Merkwuerdigeliebe."

hhh

Gaucho

From: High in the Custerdome

Registered: 2015-09-17

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Re: Light, consistent Theme for Carbon

From the Main Menu...

Start typing and choose "appearance" and set the gtk (Widgets) and icon themes (example; bunsen-yaru-bark widgets and material-solorized-bark-icons).

Type and choose "obconf" and set the Openbox theme (ex; bunsen-yaru-bark).

Type and choose "notifications" and set the notification appearance (ex; bunsen-yaru-bark).

Logout.

You can also type "blob" in the menu and use some themes stored in the BLOB Theme Manager gui, and save custom themes to it.

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Gaucho

From: High in the Custerdome

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Re: Light, consistent Theme for Carbon

Also, love your avatar. The joke is that "Merkwuerdigeliebe" is a literal translation of "strange love" or "remarkable love", or the other way around, right?

The original ending was a giant pie fight in the War Room, Kubrick decided it was too much.

Weird movie. Kubrick was nuts.

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