Cinnamon: Arc-Flatabulous renders minimize button a darker shade of grey

[nick-s-b]

I'm running Arch Linux with Cinnamon 3.2.7 DE. I've installed though AUR: aur/gtk-arc-flatabulous-theme-git 586.f827ce3-1 [installed: 668.bb41d28-1] and judging by the official git commit code, that is the latest version.

The issue is a minor, but an annoying one. When a window is in the background, Close and Maximize window widgets are of the same shade of grey yet the Minimize button is slightly darker. I have no idea why this happens and I've looked at the files in /usr/share/themes/Arc-Flatabulous and can't figure out which of them is the culprit.

Here's what it looks like: Close/Minimize/Maximize... and Minimize is darker. No idea why.

Can someone help? Thanks :)

[andreisergiu98]

I merged horst's latest commits, and he added support for cinnamon 3.2, i don't think it helps tho. I'll check it out after i change my internet connection with a faster one.

[nick-s-b]

All right, I had some free time today and decided to take a second look at this. The issue is Arc-Flatabulous/metacity-1/minimize_unfocused.png image. For some reason, someone made it darker. If you replace it with Arc-Flatabulous/metacity-1/maximize_unfocused.png, all of the window decorations will look right and the same. I suggest you just get rid of the old one.

Also, the spacing between the window widgets is all wrong. This is due to this line https://github.com/andreisergiu98/arc-flatabulous-theme/blob/a611c1e7960f36fc623b20a6c3747c7111dd889c/common/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml#L32

I've changed it to <distance name="button_width" value="22"/> and now it's perfect and exactly the same as macOS.

Also, files metacity-theme-1.xml and metacity-theme-2.xml are superflous since DE only picks the one with the largest number... in this case metacity-theme-3.xml

The result is something that looks great: