Investigate a macOS style makeover

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Investigate a macOS style makeover #96

Open fossfreedom opened 7 years ago

fossfreedom commented 7 years ago

Lets see if we can give Budgie a macOS makeover. Would be an interesting task for someone to pick up! :smile: Obviously need a mac user here to refine this and give guidance.

macOS like fonts - what is the font in the repos closest to mac?
Wallpaper - ?
GTK theme - I suppose this ? https://github.com/LinxGem33/OSX-Arc-Shadow - will need a debian package created if there isnt a PPA - add to backports if necessary
Plank dock - Besides moving the dock to bottom, what are the Plank settings needed to make it like macOS?
Panel - panel layout changes needed?

niyasc commented 7 years ago

There is another macOS like theme available here. https://github.com/B00merang-Project/macOS-Sierra

HEXcube commented 7 years ago

Recently came across this OMG!Ubuntu article showing steps to make Ubuntu look like macOS - See Link to article. To summarize it's contents with relevance to Budgie desktop:

GTK theme: GNOME OSX II
Icons: La Capitaine
Font: Garuda font comes preinstalled in Ubuntu, looks similar to macOS's non-redistributable fonts
Dock: Plank with GNOsemite theme

fossfreedom commented 7 years ago

to-do any of this needs debian packages - themes must be budgie compatible.

bashfulrobot commented 7 years ago

would we be maintaining this in our repo, or you mean upstream needs to have Debian packages?

fossfreedom commented 7 years ago

I would prefer to just link to ppa's. That way there is no maintenance for us.

niyasc commented 7 years ago

How do we change plank configurations? budgie-desktop-environment includes apps to include in dock1. Anywhere in this package, do we suggest the dock to use Gtk+ theme? Or it picks Gtk+ theme by default?

fossfreedom commented 7 years ago

example to move to the bottom gsettings set net.launchpad.plank.dock.settings:/net/launchpad/plank/docks/dock1/ position 'bottom'

changes the theme to Gtk+ i.e. the value you see in plank preferences. gsettings set net.launchpad.plank.dock.settings:/net/launchpad/plank/docks/dock1/ theme 'Gtk+'

Yep - in budgie-desktop-environment we define the override for new docks https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/budgie-desktop-environment/blob/master/debian/budgie-desktop-environment.gsettings-override