steppenwolf-dark/README

README steppenwolf

==steppenwolf==

"steppenwolf" is a GTK2 and 3 theme based on OneStepBack by Jean-Pierre Bucciol.

It is a hybrid of the good old NeXTSTEP look and some more modern elements. I
wrote this theme after being fed up with visibility problems and bloat of
modern dark themes. Have you ever looked at the source code for Arc-based
themes? It's horrendous! The huge blobs of css selectors increase
rendering/start times for programs, and make debugging those themes a nightmare.

The name is a pun on the "step" from NeXTSTEP and a reference to the Herman
Hesse novel "Steppenwolf." So this is maybe a theme for the crotchity old man
who doesn't care for the current trends.

Changes from OneStepBack include:
dark (grey50 on black) flat menus,
dark tooltips,
dark notifications,
turquoise hilights,
turquoise menu checks and radio marks,
no stepper buttons on scrollbars,
focus lines,
various individual application fixes (GIMP, Thunar, Save/Open/Print dialogs, etc).

I use this theme with my fotonix openbox theme and compton. Compton rules for
75% opacity for menus, tooltips, and notifications (along with window borders
and dock windows) give the suite a sleek feel.

This theme plays OK with QGTK. The scrollbar steppers come back and the
selected menu items have a bevel.
A port to QT5 would of course be better.

==installation==

To install the theme, unzip the archive and copy the theme in your theme
directory. There is no need for any extra //engine//.

If you use the Plank dock, you can also copy the steppenwolf plank theme from
the plank subdirectory of this repo into
~/.local/share/plank/themes/

==Author==

Author of steppenwolf: [Derek Stevens nilix(at)nilfm.cc].

Author of OneStepBack: [Jean-Pierre Bucciol jpsspam(at)free.fr].

==Licence==

This is a [GPL 3 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt] free software.
Feel free to change and share the code.

==Web pages==

- [steppenwolf: https://gitlab.com/nilix/steppenwolf]

- [OneStepBack theme main page and download  http://www.vide.memoire.free.fr/perso/OneStepBack]

- [OneStepBack at gnome-look.org http://www.gnome-look.org/p/1013663]

==Known Bugs==

I've tried my best to fix bugs on a per-application basis.
A couple things still bother me, and there doesn't seem to be anything to be
done:

- Thunderbird: menu checks/radios are upscaled
- GTK2 in general puts an unwanted 2px border around the menus.
  I'd prefer to leave this than add an engine dependency.

==Changelog==

[steppenwolf]

0.63 tweak panel/frame

0.62 flatten and remove padding from 'frame' elements

0.61 inverted some image assets, increased scroll/scalebar size for steppenwolf-dark

0.6 darken disabled menuitem color a bit, add steppenwolf-dark

0.5 remove bevel/borders from menubars and toolbars

0.4 add plank theme

0.3 fix Thunar pathbar buttons

0.2 update overflow arrows in menus

0.1 first release

[OneStepBack]
Version 0.992, working version

Version 0.991, July 2018
- change the grey-brown color variant for a grey-brown-green-blue color variant
- gtk2: improve generation of the derived colors
- gtk2: improve colors of progressbar label
- gtk3: improve color backdrop color in headerbar
- gtk3: improve button color consistency in headerbar
- gtk3: fix a bug in toolbar button hover
- gtk3: fix a color name bug
- improve differentation of selected text, menuitem and listitem colors

Version 0.99, April 2018
- gtk3: improve spacing for icons in nautilus sidebar
- gtk3: fix a color name bug
- add a grey-brown color variant

Version 0.98, March 2018
- gtk3: fix a color bug when toogle button in hover
- fix a bug in the headerbar roundness
- fix a color bug in the windows shadows
- improve design of the thumbs on scales and scrollbars
- improve colors of arrows and scrollbars
- improve support for easy color changes
- change colors of the variant color version: the colors are inspired by the earth-brown gtk3 theme 

Version 0.97, January 2018
- gtk3: fix a color bug in the flotting bottom information bar in nautilus
- add a color variant
- gtk3: fix a color bug in popover (modelbutton:active)
- gtk3: drop support for gtk 3.16 and 3.18

Version 0.96, July 2017
- fix a color bug for mouse color selection in caja (mrnhmath)

Version 0.95, July 2017
- fix a color bug for background in icon view in caja (mrnhmath)
- fix a color name bug

Version 0.94, July 2017
- fix a color bug for selected and unfocused wxgtk items

Version 0.93, May 2017
- gtk3: fix a color bug in nautilus for selected and unfocused icons
- gtk3: fix a color bug for selections in firefox gtk3
- change for a blue-gray color for progress bars and switch

Version 0.92: November 2016
- gtk3: fix a color bug in headerbar pathbar
- gtk3: add a left margin to arrow in menus
- gtk2: fix wrong background color in rox when switching theme
- gtk3: improve css syntax for font definitions

Version 0.91, September 2016
- gtk3: disable the GtkWidget-window-dragging function that breaks things in gnumeric (thanks Ingo S.)

Version 0.9, August 2016
- add support for easy color changes
- gtk3: add a minimal lenght to the scrollbar sliders
- gtk3: improve arrows design in scrollbar when disabled

Version 0.8, April 2016
- gtk3: fix a bug in desktop borders when nautilus manages the desktop
- gtk3: more consistant design of the scrollbar arrow buttons
- gtk3: add support for scale indicators
- gtk3: fix bug for scale sliders overpassing trough
- gtk3: fix a bug with labels of scale bars
- gtk3: add support for arrows in popover menus
- gtk3: change behaviour of the checked button in hea.derbar 
- gtk3: add basic support for calendar and iconview widgets
- gtk3: fix a color bug for radiobutton label when disabled in list
- gtk3: add support for expander arrows when active

Version 0.7, April 2016
- gtk3: port to gtk 3.20: gtk3 part rebuild from scratch !
- orange progress bar color
- gray active widgets
- no more highlight on hover

Version 0.6, November 2015
- gtk3: improve borders of menus (thanks behrz)

Version 0.5, October 2015
- gtk3: improve borders/shadows to better match the gtk2 part (thanks behrz)
- gtk3: improve switch borders
- fix some colors and rocking in toolbar buttons
- change borders of scrollbar sliders to match the new button shadows
- gtk2: better centering of the scrollbar thumb
- gtk3: fix a padding problem in gedit open document popover (thanks to bd209ocp)

Version 0.4, October 2015
- gtk3: fix some color and padding tweeks for nautilus 3.18
- add arrow buttons to scrollbars
- gtk3: test with gtk 3.18: ok

Version 0.3, October 2015
- gtk2: fix shadow glitchs in the scrollbar design
- add a shell script to easily change the colors of the theme
- gtk3: improve calculation of shadows on buttons

Version 0.2, September 2015
- gtk3: fix borders glitchs in menus
- gtk3: improve borders of the embossed widgets
- gtk3: define help colors for borders
- gtk3: fix :hover colors on switchs
- gtk3: add support for gnome-logs selections
- fix color of insensitive combobox and check and radio buttons labels
- gtk2: fix color of gimp loading bar

Version 0.1, August 2015

- initial version

==Version numbering==

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