Murrine Unity Theme

Murrine Unity Theme is a GTK theme for the GNOME desktop environment.

Developer comments

I created this theme for a couple of reasons:

1. I wanted to learn more about GTK and Metacity theme creation/modification.
2. I wanted to come up with a theme that was clean and simple but not too simple.
After a couple of days of work, this theme was born. I felt like the name "Unity" fit because this theme created a sense of similarity or unity between various elements without being either too boring or too outlandish. Or at least to me it does.

Credits/Notes:

GTK Theme
Versions of this theme prior to version 0.4 required a GIT version of the Murrine GTK engine. As of version 0.4, options that are not present in the stable version of the Murrine engine (0.98 as of the release date of version 0.6) have been removed.

Panel background image and general inspiration from Murrine-Colors theme by perfectska04 (Victor C.):
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Murrine-Colors?content=77661

Metacity Theme
Was originally based on Metacity portion of "Masa-Colors Unity" theme by klausdiemaus (Benjamin Hardy):
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Masa-Colors?content=121005

I've also found that this theme works well with the "Equinox Evolution Rounded" Metacity theme which is
part of the Equinox GTK engine download available at:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Equinox+GTK+Engine?content=121881

What is new in this release:

• General code cleanup
• Made the background color slightly darker.
• Changed the tooltip background color back to the yellow color used in the Clearlooks color scheme.
• Made the unfocused notebook tabs darker so that the focused tab stands out more. (Thanks to ermo for suggesting this change!)
• Changed the prelight color for buttons and scrollbars. (Thanks to ermo for suggesting this change!)
• Added a gradient to the scrollbar trough to make the scrollbar easier to see. (Thanks again to ermo for this suggestion!)

What is new in version 20110222:

• Changed version numbering scheme.
• GTK: Cleaned up a little of the code in the gtkrc file. Didn't affect the appearance of the theme at all.

Requirements:

• GNOME
• gtk+
• Murrine GTK+ engine