Artwork Improvements for Mint 20.3

[clefebvre]

General

• [x] Improve Nemo toolbar (https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/commit/9927b5ed42c4f61f27b9c894587e01deb5583dac)
• [ ] New emblems in Mint-Y
• [ ] Better sounds

Dark Apps

Once the theme gets support for gtk-dark.css, CSD windows work well everywhere since it's GTK who is rendering their titlebar. SSD windows on the other hand only work well with WMs which support this (muffin, marco, metacity). Xfwm doesn't support this, so if the theme enables gtk-dark.css and an app is using SSD titlebars (i.e. Xfwm titlebars) and dark mode, it will look dark but have a light titlebar, which looks completely broken. For this reason, SSD apps which support dark mode need to disable dark mode in Xfwm.

• [x] gtk-dark.css support (https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-themes/commit/da6bcf01e1356bad4cd20e14755039996cc21c9d)
• [x] hypnotix (https://github.com/linuxmint/hypnotix/commit/23f0350b9f9bce0afab196c0d1638e885d455a35)
• [x] xviewer (already has support, already enabled by default, disabled in Xfce https://github.com/linuxmint/xviewer/commit/8bac701b9df99d85f1299a3568086e390a0eb6ac)
• [x] celluloid (already has support, already enabled by default)
• [x] pix (https://github.com/linuxmint/pix/commit/81263e14251c006d0f7d467e76fe751f2776bebe https://github.com/linuxmint/pix/commit/2cc947f9237c2e3a6ac6c7e37453d5be8aced8da)
• [ ] gnome-terminal

Titlebars

• [ ] Rounded tops
• [x] Larger buttons (https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-themes/commit/32d79a17f99f01ac77dfdb6aa875421ddd5f1103)
• [ ] Update Xfwm themes (wait until tints are decided first)
• [ ] MATE: Fix artefacts in metacity theme
• [ ] MATE: Patch appearance settings to fix warning message about the lack of metacity-2x theme
• [ ] Cinnamon: Remove metacity support in themes settings
• [ ] Muffin: render all windows with GTK borders

Colors

• [x] Light Nemo Sidebar (https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-themes/commit/aadf71ac3cc792033a1628c76dfe62a0978ceea5)
• [ ] Light Thunar Sidebar
• [ ] Light Caja Sidebar
• [ ] Remove accents on toggled buttons?
• [ ] Remove accents in menus?
• [ ] Remove accents in lists?
• [ ] Tint greys (https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-themes/commit/3359bfcfbc582fdbb1d6c2d83e9b9f6d5afd0969)
• [ ] Ensure compatibility with tinted greys in GTK2 and Qt apps
• [x] Cinnamon Mint-Y should have a light panel (https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-themes/commit/8dea24cf59d89729ea34308bf3f5caddd79cafc7)

Legacy

• [x] Remove Mint-Y-Darker (https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-themes/commit/98a1fdde7d1e52ef4f09e3591752869051a44149)
• [x] Provide a single metacity theme for Mint-Y (https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-themes/commit/19b3e19bb04f6ee9b083d799b2ad5a7e9760e889)
• [ ] Provide access to Mint-Y-Legacy-Darker in the repository

Updates

• [ ] MATE: Switch to metacity or mint-y-legacy
• [ ] Xfce: Switch to metacity or mint-y-legacy

[JosephMcc]

Several of these are implemented in https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-themes/pull/322, including:

Light Thunar sidebar Light Caja sidebar Remove accents on toggled buttons Rounded window borders Remove accents in menus

[hsbasu]

Having gradient color in panel would be great as it would provide a 3D look.

[JosephMcc]

@hsbasu In what panel? And we are mostly talking Mint-Y here, so gradients and a 3d look are not the overall style.

[hsbasu]

@hsbasu In what panel? And we are mostly talking Mint-Y here, so gradients and a 3d look are not the overall style.

The cinnamon panel, I was talking about, which holds the menu and other applets.

I tried using a css gradient in $panel_bg. But it isn't taking the gradient options.

Now that you mention that Mint-Y is flat theme, I think my comment is irrelevant. And i apologize for that.

[SebastJava]

Rounded corners

1. Would be better on windows top and bottom, not just top.
2. Buttons are currently done with 3px corner radius, which looks like a rectangle with one missing pixel on each corner. It should be at least 5px !

Examples: Examples of round corners for both windows and buttons can be found... everywhere ! Here on GitHub, there on Slack, and on other Linux distros...

[JosephMcc]

@hsbasu In case you haven't found out yet, Cinnamon doesn't except css gradients. Look in the Mint-X or default Cinnamon theme to see how gradients are done.

[JosephMcc]

I'm closing this one now. We aren't working on 20.3 anymore plus most all of these that we decided to keep are now done. Pretty much all that's left would be switching Xfce and Mate to use Metacity by default if we choose. That one isn't really relevant to this repo.