Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Aurora 0.1.0 Released

[Felipe López]

2014-03-15 2:43 GMT-05:00 Marcus Moeller <address@hidden>:

Dear Felipe.

I just released Aurora 0.1.0 for gNewSense 4. The following is a summary
of the changes in this version.

     + Added desktop theme.
     + Added gdm3 theme.
     + Added GRUB theme.
     + Added icon theme.
     + Added installer theme.
     + Added documentation <http://gnsaurora.rtfd.org/>.

You can get the latest tarball from the downloads page:

https://bitbucket.org/sirgazil/aurora/downloads

Documentation is available in http://gnsaurora.rtfd.org/.

Thanks for the update. I liked the old version of the wallpapers better, as they did not contain those hard edges.

I agree. I'll revert the change or try something new.

 

Concerning the start-here icons, I did not yet find a way to enable those in gnome-shell. There has been an extension available for that purpose:

https://github.com/fpmurphy/GNOME-3.2-Shell-Extensions/tree/master/address@hidden

but it does not seem to work with gnome-shell 3.4 that is included in wheezy.

It should of course work with alternate desktop environments like Xfce.

I added the icons just in case they are needed to replace the Debian swirl which is in /usr/share/icons/gnome, but I haven't seen the Debian logo used in GNOME shell as much as it was in GNOME 2 (a good thing, I think). In Debian 7 you can can select the icon theme from Applications --> System Tools --> Advanced Settings --> Theme --> Icon Theme. But nothing seems to change when you select something there.

 

In the commit notes it also says: added GTK theme, but I cannot find it.

Ah, well, it is supposed to be aurora/desktop/Aurora. You wont find the actual themes for GTK 2 and GTK 3 because Aurora uses Adwaita's (see aurora/desktop/Aurora/index.theme). So, aurora/desktop/Aurora is just Adwaita but with different backgrounds and the gnewsense icon theme, which inherits everything from gnome icon theme except the logo.

Although I added aurora/desktop/Aurora, I haven't been able to set it as the default theme either. And, for example, it is not listed in Applications --> System Tools --> Advanced Settings --> Theme after installation.

 

Greets
Marcus

Thanks for the feedback, Marcus.

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Luis Felipe López Acevedo

http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/