Dark gtk3 themes
Ok, last night was a horrible Free computing experience.
I was meditating/stretching listening to some much from my laptop hooked up to my big 24" monitor. The album ended and I wanted just another 30 minutes so I unlocked the screen.
My music player of choice, gmusicbroser, doesn't have themes (most apps don't) and was blaring at me in almost all white.
I quickly started looking for a dark gtk3 theme.
Theme 1: Came in a deb and depended on some other obvious packages. Good thing. Installed and it caused a complete meltdown of GNOME; no apps would open and after a minute or so gnome-shell just died. [Solution: TTY1, sudo apt-get remove it, reboot]
Theme 2: Previous theme was from 2011, so let's go to gnome-look.org and sort by recent activity. Good, found one. That one, however, would kill nautilus (file browser) if I tried to open a second tab in it. Removed.
Theme 3: This one seemed to be working pretty well, until I wanted to go to bed and asked my computer to suspend. Somehow a fucking theme was preventing my laptop from suspending.
Seriously, has the world given up on dark themes? Do we not care about our user's eyes at night?
Ahh, yeah, no such thing (at least installed by default) for GNOME.
Jesus, really? How barbaric.
My fix for other situations is to bind "xcalib -invert -alter" to super+return (or some other key combination) to invert all colors on the screen. This is partly because of a longtime frustration with firefox contrasting with dark themes
In a "perfect" world, there would be a gtk3 theme that mimics blender's default theme that I could easily use, and a firefox plugin to allow me to invert a page's contents by default, and de-invert it if I feel like it is necessary for that page.
Aeva Ntsc at 2014-10-31T21:04:37Z
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