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I need a name for a new GNOME Theme 6 March, 2008

Hi guys, I need a name for a new Gtk Theme + Metacity that I made one month ago and I’d like to publish asap in Gnome Themes Extras (I’m also the Maintainer of this module).

Please, if you have an Idea, add a comment here.

Description

Basically it is composed of a Clearlooks-based Gtk theme with a darker background (compared to the default Clearlooks), more roundess, brighter shadings on most widgets (toolbars included), a Metacity theme merged with the Menubar (I’m a fan of the default blue borders, but since FOSS is about choice this is for the guys who like it :) ), and the Gnome Folders by Ulisse Perusin.

Shot

clearlooksflat.png


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77 Replies

  1. Livio said:
    6 March, 2008 alle 23:13

    Cimi, stop teasing :D .

  2. Martin said:
    6 March, 2008 alle 23:13

    Nice. May I suggest a little more difference between selected and unselected windows in the Metacity theme?

  3. John Stowers said:
    6 March, 2008 alle 23:16

    Flow?

    Clearlooks Flow?

    Clear Flow?

  4. gieffe said:
    6 March, 2008 alle 23:21

    clear steel

  5. George said:
    6 March, 2008 alle 23:25

    Sliver (not a typo)

    Clean&Clear

    I would love to see a version that had the dark background replaced with white, just curious but i have a feeling it would look good (or at least i would like it)

  6. Cimi said:
    6 March, 2008 alle 23:27

    @martin:
    i guess that buttons without symbols and light font color is enough… isn’t it?
    I can’t change the color or i will break the smooth gradient…

  7. tumi said:
    6 March, 2008 alle 23:35

    My vote goes to Sliver. Will this be a part of Gnome 2.22?

  8. Ryan Pavlik said:
    6 March, 2008 alle 23:36

    I suggest “Suave” - means “smooth” in a variety of languages, and that’s the impression I get from this theme - It is smooth and gentle, but also very clean.

  9. Ryan said:
    6 March, 2008 alle 23:41

    FindTheForeground

  10. George said:
    6 March, 2008 alle 23:42

    @cimi

    i see what martin is saying - but it may feel different with actual use.

    What about - dont know if this is possible but what about not showing the buttons at all on inactive
    or go even lighter with the text.

  11. ethana2 said:
    6 March, 2008 alle 23:47

    I don’t know, but I’d like to see it, studio, mint, nodoka, and human all included by default in ubuntu. (I approve) Can it do vertical tabs and all that? Is it completely… complete?

  12. Dan Arcy Menon said:
    6 March, 2008 alle 23:49

    graet names! :)

    I like “Suave”, but “Sliver” rocks!

    ps. yep, as Martin said, a little more difference between selected and unselected windows would be nice…

  13. Pete said:
    6 March, 2008 alle 23:50

    You could do a name like “Moonshine”? It definitely reminds me of something moon-ish.

    Suggestion, the unfocused window borders have blank buttons for the window states. I’d prefer adding back the button icon faintly. If not that, make the un-iconed buttons much fainter themselves also.

  14. Cimi said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 0:14

    You can also make mockups with The Gimp…

  15. JrA said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 0:20

    Stainless doesn’t seems used yet.

  16. cluck said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 0:33

    i like it! Argentum (latin for silver) would be a nice name to it, iirc sliver is already taken by some other theme.
    maybe making the bg of the focused window’s buttons black for close and dark grey for the others would help a more marked distinction between focus states without too much impact or uglyness, that said good work, keep it up

  17. kiddo said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 0:35

    Dusk? Dawn? Nightvision? :) Greyt (grey + great)?

  18. Cimi said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 0:42

    Should be independent from the colors… Since you may want to change them :) and it will become no more Silvered

  19. Marc said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 0:45

    It’s 2008, and it’s a subdued yet organic (rounded) theme. Would fit very well in a business environment.

    Why not call it Beijing?

  20. Cimi said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 0:56

    Unified, Unity, Unique, Unito.

  21. benji said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 1:16

    Seems a lot to Mac OS X. That was my first impression. It is avaliable for download?

  22. John Stowers said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 1:17

    Unity +1

  23. molok said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 2:00

    “Grigio Milano”.

  24. Cimi said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 2:28

    @molok: LOL

  25. chombee said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 2:55

    Robocop.

  26. Veejay said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 3:01

    You should call it Cimitar (typo intended).

  27. Steve said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 7:26

    Icicle.

    Frozen.

    Frozen Pond.

    Ice Pond.

    Winter.

    Smoke.

  28. Michael Krog said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 8:04

    How about: “Crisp!”

  29. giorgio said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 8:41

    C-metal

  30. Raldo said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 8:57

    Unilooks, it goes well also in Firefox!

  31. Nil Gradisnik said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 9:30

    Silver +1

    Please commit this theme to gtk-engines svn asap! :)

  32. mmc said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 9:47

    Shot?

  33. infodroid said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 9:50

    TUNGSTEN

  34. mattions said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 10:16

    It looks good :)
    Tranquillity ?

  35. kamstrup said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 10:18

    That there looks bloody sweet. I guess you Italian guys have an knack for design.

    A clean name for a clean theme: Clean, Clear

    The dusty metallic feel could vouch for naming it after a metal. Lithium, Zinc, Aluminum,…

  36. kamstrup said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 10:19

    (you are italian right? ;-P)

  37. Act1v8 said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 11:36

    Floogy :)

    Anyways, please make it available for download!

  38. nachx said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 11:59

    Suave rocks
    +1

  39. giorgio said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 12:35

    radon

  40. Cimi said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 12:42

    I like Suave, Unilooks, Unity, since they are not related to the colors (which may change) but they’re related to the look. Also, they mean something.

    @Kamstrup: yes

  41. Peteris Krisjanis said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 12:58

    Simplelooks
    Simplyclear

  42. Luca "elle.uca" Ferretti said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 13:15

    Really stupid: Roundlooks… or Clearrounds… or Smoothlooks… or Smoothrounds… but to be honest something without those stupid jokes with “clear” or “looks” is better :-D

    PS a metacity theme called Unity yet exists on gnome-look.org

  43. Cimi said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 13:22

    Union?
    Btw Unity is not ®… :)

  44. DLS said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 13:36

    Which font configuration are you using? They look really crisp!

  45. Marco said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 14:20

    Suave +1

    o

    Elegante

  46. Bl@ster said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 14:26

    After DarkLooks & Clearlooks… SilverLooks? MetaLooks? GrayLooks?

  47. simo_magic said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 15:56

    an advice not for the name but for the theme itsself

    i think the Xs which close the tab are too big
    so the would be better if they were like in clearlooks or gummy

    simo :D

  48. Xander said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 16:41

    Uno?

    :)

  49. baze said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 17:27

    I’d go for suave too.

    It should be possible to make the menu bar flat, right?
    you wrote sth about that recently and I think it would look even better that way.

  50. baze said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 17:29

    oops… I meant tool bar of course.

  51. Ulisse said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 17:31

    Wow, finally my folders made their way in :)

    I like Unity and Suave, if you want a joke on Clearlooks it could be Smoothlooks.
    Btw I agree with tmartin about the unfocused window status buttons, every time I tried to use a teme with blank buttons, in a short I reverted back to another theme.

    Bravo, bel tema! Continua così! :)

  52. Cimi said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 17:45

    @ulisse, martin:
    Unfocused buttons have symbols on prelight (mouse hover)

  53. Livio said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 17:51

    Chameleon :>

  54. Midael said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 17:53

    Looks like something between Clearlooks and Aurora.

    Aulooks? Cleuora? :))

  55. Wingman said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 17:54

    I suggest something related to metal elements since it reminds me a sort of “soft metal” :D

    What about “Aluminium” or the italian translation, “Alluminio”?
    I think that it fits nice :)

    Anyway great work as always!

  56. Raldo said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 18:55

    @xander:
    XD

    What about Jointime? It can represent at the same time the change and strongness of clearlooks.
    Suave doesn’t impress me. From english to italian translation it means “unto”

  57. NoWhereMan said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 23:36

    «From english to italian translation it means “unto” » kill whoever wrote your dictionary :D

    BTW, “UNO” of a famous theme for OS X http://gui.interacto.net/ (and Unified has something to do with OS X too), so look out :)

    anyway the theme is slick, soft and easy at the eyes

    I do see it might be difficult to identify inactive windows, but the theme I’m using now has actually the same problem, so… :)

    “Suave” sounds nice, but I don’t really see it “soave” (I like Italian for things like names for themes or app components).

    Hmm, how about “velvet”? not sure, though…

    bye

  58. Raldo said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 23:49

    @nowhereman

    http://www.oxfordparavia.it/lemmaEng37388
    Dai, la paravia non ci ha mai traditi XD
    Comunque sia, credo sia meno ovvio il nostro accostamento di significato con lo spagnolo che non quello degli inglesi con la propria lingua.

  59. Raldo said:
    7 March, 2008 alle 23:50

    Velvet m’ispira, invece sisi

  60. Boobek said:
    8 March, 2008 alle 2:10

    Gnomix

  61. JrezIN said:
    8 March, 2008 alle 2:47

    SharpLooks?

  62. bastianazzo said:
    8 March, 2008 alle 12:13

    may I suggest any of the proposed terms to be translated in Italian? once I read about how Italian terms are used in foreign countries as product names (just think about…Vista!!) because of their sound or something else.
    we are just too used about Italian terms, but I really like the sound…
    don’t you like Ghiaccio much more than Ice or Limpido (or Purezza, or something else) instead of Clear?
    I do! :)

    great job by the way!! although I do agree with the fact that focused window is not enough recognizable at first sight…what about a stronger font difference (e.g.: don’t hardcode a precise color for non focused window title font, but try to get the opposite color of the one chosen for the non focused titlebar)?

    my 2 cents….

  63. NoWhereMan said:
    8 March, 2008 alle 16:59

    @raldo O_O http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suave

    @bastianazzo, think about how they would pronounce the word, then ‘Ghiaccio’ -> No such thing like “GH” in English (la G è sempre dura). E il dittongo IA è difficile da pronunciare IMO

    Limpido -> Lym-py-doh ? urgh…

    Purezza -> poo-ree-zah (it doesn’t ‘look’ nice either with that double ‘z’)

    :P btw I like the idea

  64. bastianazzo said:
    9 March, 2008 alle 1:43

    @NoWhereMan

    well said…we should think to some other Italian term, easy pronouncable by foreigners :P
    thanks for the feedback

  65. triex said:
    9 March, 2008 alle 21:52

    @bastianazzo

    pizza?

    btw suave as nice

  66. Luca "elle.uca" Ferretti said:
    10 March, 2008 alle 11:37

    It’s based on gummy, isn’t it? So what about “Gommolo”?

    Note for non Italian people: in Italian translation of Disney’s Snow White the dwarfs are called Pisolo, Mammolo, Brontolo and so on, using a template like “wordolo“. So we have a really stupid joke: create new dwarfs addind olo to existing words… Well, at least I do it sometime…

    PS my best fictional dwarf is “Rantolo”

  67. m4rC0 p4 said:
    10 March, 2008 alle 12:29

    Non sarebbe possibile togliere il contorno dei tasti nelle finestre inattive (parlo del tema Metacity) ?

    O magari trovare una soluzione un po’ piu’ particolare :)

  68. ekerazha said:
    10 March, 2008 alle 12:39

    The system toolbar (minimize, close etc.) should have “icons” also on the buttons of “not on-top” windows… yes, you can click on the system toolbar also if the window isn’t on-top. That would be more usable.

  69. ekerazha said:
    10 March, 2008 alle 12:50

    P.S.
    I mean always visible icons, just like the windows on-top (maybe of another color, but visible).

  70. tehk said:
    10 March, 2008 alle 13:37

    I just did a fresh install of hardy alpha 6 and I erased my older personalized themes. So this looks like a great theme and I can’t wait to trash the normal clearlooks theme for it.

  71. Ma Sara said:
    11 March, 2008 alle 11:00

    @66:

    ROTLF

  72. italyanker said:
    14 March, 2008 alle 18:12

    SoftyLook?
    or…
    Rounded-World Metal?

  73. mad_max said:
    16 March, 2008 alle 10:59

    Io userei nomi di donna, quelli + corti, tra quelli che adoro ci sono:
    Lucia, Sofia, Elisa, Laura, Giada, Arianna, Marta, Sara, Chiara.

    o nomi francesi:
    Annie, Ariane, Candide, Catherine, Elise, Eloïse, Eve,Isabelle
    Isis,Julie, Julienne, Lucille, Marlène, Mélodie, Nathalie, Nina, Océane, Oriane, Rose, Sophie, Zoé

    Ciao.

  74. mad_max said:
    16 March, 2008 alle 11:04

    Dimenticavo una cosa:
    Veramente Bello il tema, complimenti e grazie per quello che fai per il progetto GNOME. attendo con ansia il risultato del tuo grande genio artistico/tecnico.

  75. NoWhereMan said:
    17 March, 2008 alle 11:15

    +1 mad_max

  76. Diego said:
    17 March, 2008 alle 18:24

    is this theme available already?

  77. Cimi’s Official Blog » Blog Archive » Welcome Unity, new GNOME Theme :) said:
    18 March, 2008 alle 3:45

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