Luna Metallic and Olive

[dominichayesferen]

I was wondering, since there hasn't been a Windows XP Silver nor Windows XP Olive theme on Cinnamon for a while that is complete, would you mind doing a Silver and Olive Green variant based off of CinnXP but with the headerbars on your XP themes? BTW, I don't care as much for Olive, but mainly Silver, Silver was my favourite theme in Windows XP for a long time...

[dominichayesferen]

@Elbullazul

[Elbullazul]

shure, I'll do that, but when I get back from my medical break :)

[dominichayesferen]

Feedback & Suggestions for a more XP-like look: Silver:

• Swap the hover and pressed states of the window list, they're the opposite states in XP
• Get rid of the hover/focused effect on the right-side of the panel, it wasn't there in XP
• Change the buttons, like Olive Green, Silver has a different look for its buttons that's more metallic
• Make the focused window text white in Window List, again, that's how it worked on XP
• Get rid of the black border in GTK Menus
• Make the hover text for Start white
• Change the scrollbars, they look different (more metallic like the buttons) on Silver
• Possibly add a hover image for the menu? (It's slightly brighter than unfocused)
• Get rid of the odd black line in StarkMenu > All Programs
• There's a weird bug with odd spacing below the searchbar in Stark, I know there wasn't even a search bar in XP, but nonetheless, it was still filled up by Favourites/Recent Programs
• Make the headerbar button states more like the metacity
• Change the buttons on headerbars too to match the other buttons? (Looks better if you get the metallic buttons)
• Get rid of the white shadow below text on the Cinnamon theme, it wasn't there in XP
• Use CinnXP's Metacity as a base maybe to fix the spacing up to XPs equivalent
• Change the breadcrumbs to match the XP Silver button gradient

Olive:

• Same Window List bug where the states are the opposite to XP's ones in this theme
• Get rid of the black shadow on the focused Window List item
• Get rid of the hover/focused effect and stop it changing the colour of the text, they weren't there in XP
• Make the headerbar focused state look more like Metacity's (Darken the shade of green used)
• Wrong shade of green in Cinnamon hover (darker shade of green is used in XP)
• Wrong shade in GTK too and wrong selected text colour
• Menus used that same colour when focused in XP
• Same shade of green in other hover states for GTK, other than buttons and the like
• Ugly menu borders (the black ones)
• Change the scrollbars, they were different to Luna (with a green shade) in XP
• Spacing in Metacity (same as Silver)
• In XP, there is hover and pressed states for the Start Button
• Make the headerbar actual-buttons match the ones in non-headerbar GTK

Luna:

• No shadow on Window List and other applets' text (other than Start) in XP
• Text should be white on blue for menu item hovering
• You got the StarkMenu colours the wrong side around, flip the light-blue and white over and you'll fix that
• Main Menu should have white on blue for the selected state

That's all I've noticed

[Elbullazul]

so, let's see...

Silver:

• [x] Swap the hover and pressed states of the window list, they're the opposite states in XP
• [x] Get rid of the hover/focused effect on the right-side of the panel, it wasn't there in XP
• [x] Change the buttons, like Olive Green, Silver has a different look for its buttons that's more metallic
• [x] Make the focused window text white in Window List, again, that's how it worked on XP
• [ ] Get rid of the black border in GTK Menus (nevermind)
• [x] Make the hover text for Start white
• [x] Change the scrollbars, they look different (more metallic like the buttons) on Silver
• [x] Possibly add a hover image for the menu? (It's slightly brighter than unfocused)
• [x] Get rid of the odd black line in StarkMenu > All Programs
• [x] There's a weird bug with odd spacing below the searchbar in Stark, I know there wasn't even a search bar in XP, but nonetheless, it was still filled up by Favourites/Recent Programs
• [x] Make the headerbar button states more like the metacity
• [x] Change the buttons on headerbars too to match the other buttons? (Looks better if you get the metallic buttons)
• [x] Get rid of the white shadow below text on the Cinnamon theme, it wasn't there in XP
• [x] Use CinnXP's Metacity as a base maybe to fix the spacing up to XPs equivalent
• [x] Change the breadcrumbs to match the XP Silver button gradient

Olive:

• [x] Same Window List bug where the states are the opposite to XP's ones in this theme
• [x] Get rid of the black shadow on the focused Window List item
• [x] Get rid of the hover/focused effect and stop it changing the colour of the text, they weren't there in XP
• [x] Make the headerbar focused state look more like Metacity's (Darken the shade of green used)
• [x] Wrong shade of green in Cinnamon hover (darker shade of green is used in XP)
• [x] Wrong shade in GTK too and wrong selected text colour
• [x] Menus used that same colour when focused in XP
• [x] Same shade of green in other hover states for GTK, other than buttons and the like
• [ ] Ugly menu borders (the black ones)
• [ ] Change the scrollbars, they were different to Luna (with a green shade) in XP
• [x] Spacing in Metacity (same as Silver)
• [x] In XP, there is hover and pressed states for the Start Button
• [x] Make the headerbar actual-buttons match the ones in non-headerbar GTK

Luna:

• [x] No shadow on Window List and other applets' text (other than Start) in XP
• [x] Text should be white on blue for menu item hovering
• [x] You got the StarkMenu colours the wrong side around, flip the light-blue and white over and you'll fix that
• [x] Main Menu should have white on blue for the selected state

[Elbullazul]

BTW @feren here it shows menus with dark borders:

[dominichayesferen]

Oh, oops, forgot about them

[Elbullazul]

so, I guess that's it, except for the scrollbars in olive, which I can't seem to find. maybe you can provide those assets @feren ?

[dominichayesferen]

@Elbullazul Do you have a Windows XP ISO kicking anywhere? I don't over here... Also, Longhorn TWIWMTB got rid of the XP themes in favour of a working Aero Triggering theme

[Elbullazul]

@feren and all users of XP themes:

We are now abandoning all XP related themes, minus Longhorn themes & Whistler, we are migrating our 'XP-related' efforts to the CinnXP project over @ CinnXP themes

Reasons of deprecation include work overflow & complexity of maintenance of multiple 'classic' CSS themes; whilst with SASS devs can updates all themes at once

we're soon moving them to a new repo; should anyone wish to continue their development & maintenance we're open to yeld the codebase & possibly other useful documentation.

Cheers,

The B00merang Project Team

[Elbullazul]

more details about the reasons here:

https://gitter.im/B00merang-Project/topics/topic/5880299f11e7a7f61db5086d/deprecation-of-xp-themes

@feren I can provide extended support for the 2017 feren OS release, but not much more