Victory (Strikes Again)

Victory (Strikes Again) is a GTK theme born from Ambiance, though only a few lines from that remain.

Developer comments

The window border included is from Ambience, but with new buttons. Pathbar arrows were born from elementary-mod/elementary. Volume sliders are from New Wave, a theme I have always really liked. So a big thanks to all those who worked on those themes.

How to install?

· Right click on your desktop and select Change Desktop Background
· Click on the first tab: Theme
· Drag and drop the theme's archive in the Appearance Preferences window.
· If everything is OK, you will receive a confirmation message and you can activate the theme just by clicking on it.

About GNOME:

GNOME is an international effort to build a complete desktop environment—the graphical user interface which sits on top of a computer operating system—entirely from free software. This goal includes creating software development frameworks, selecting application software for the desktop, and working on the programs which manage application launching, file handling, and window and task management.

GNOME is part of the GNU Project and can be used with various Unix-like operating systems, most notably Linux, and as part of Java Desktop System in Solaris.

The name originally stood for GNU Network Object Model Environment, though this acronym is deprecated. The GNOME project puts heavy emphasis on simplicity, usability, and making things “just work”.

What is new in this release:

• New: Gnome-Shell Theme
• New: Gtk3/Gnome3 Theming (Beta)
• New: Cinnamon Theme
• New: Support for Mate Desktop Environment
• New: Victory for Top Panels
• Altered panel backgrounds and metacity window border
• Window border becomes flat when maximized, blending Top Panel and Window Border
• Works with Gnome 3, Gnome 2, Ubuntu, Cinnamon, Mate by default
• Works with LXDE, XFCE when using Compiz
• Remember to log out and back in after selecting this theme to see the changes
• New: Marlin File Browser themed
• New: GMusicBrowser themed
• New: Support for Overlay Scrollbars
• Updated: Latest apps in Gnome (Rhythmbox, Totem), LXDE (PCManFM, Parole), and XFCE
• Updated: Unity Panel for Ubuntu 11.10
• Option Added: Ambiance-like toolbars for Gtk3/Gnome3 (Ubuntu 11.10+)
• This makes the toolbar dark, blending with the File Menu bar and/or the Title bar of the window border
• Scroll to the bottom of the file: Victory > gtk-3.0 > gtk.css
• Under "Options" and uncomment the ambiance-toolbars line.
• Should look like this: @import url("styles/ambiance-toolbars.css");
• Save, then log out and back in.
• Changed: To avoid clutter, additional Window Borders (Dark and Variants) not added to .themes folder by default
• All borders can befound in Victory > OptionsExtras > Extra Window Borders
• Just drag them to your home/yournamehere/.themes folder, and select them in your window manager (may require restart)

What is new in version 2011.05.23:

• Reworked: Dark Panel
• Reworked: Dark Menus
• Reworked: Pathbar: + Button shows more breadcrumbs
• Added: XFCE/xfwm Window Borders
• Added: LXDE/Openbox Window Borders
• Added: Google Chrome/Chromium Themes
• Added: Gnome 3 Theme - In an incomplete 'alpha' stage
• Updated: Gnome/Metacity - Window Borders
• Updated: XFCE/LXDE - Themed a lot of unthemed stuff
• Updated: Firefox 4 tab bar as best I could
• Updated: Ubuntu 11.04 - Unity panel and Indicator Applet (Calendar)
• Updated: Opera Theme
• Updated: Icon Theme - Added all new panel/indicator icons for dark panels (and more)
• Added Options: elementary style scrollbars
• Added Options: All previous Victory styles can now be enabled
• General app updates (Chrome/Chromium, Banshee, etc) and bug fixes

What is new in version 2011.03.18:

• New:
• Added Dark Panels as default *
• Added Dark Menus as default *
• Added Options Section *
• General:
• Merged Victory and the Victory Elementary version into one theme. *
• Window Border (Light) tweaked, new minimize button
• Window Borders split from theme, defaults to Light border
• For Dark border, just adjust the Tooltip Colors, and pick the dark border.
• Sidebar color now grey by default
• You can still easily change it by adjusting the Selected Items colors.
• New Close Button on Tabs
• Changed look of Dropdown boxes in toolbars
• Scrollbars tweaked
• Panel code redone
• Should now work great with gnome-color-chooser
• Got rid of custom pixmap triangle expanders
• Now uses Murrine default
• Triangle Expanders if you use Murrine 0.98(Ubuntu 10.10)
• +/buttons if you use a Murrine under 0.98 (Ubuntu 10.04)
• Icon theme suggests Victory Icon Collection
• http://newhoa.deviantart.com/art/Victory-Icon-Collection-188206119
• It's fairly incomplete for now, so use whatever
• General updates and fixes

What is new in version 2010.12.02:

• New:
• Victory Icon Collection
• http://newhoa.deviantart.com/art/Victory-Icon-Collection-188206119
• Icon collection/modification using NuoveXT and elementary icons.
• Leave comments here or at the link above, if people seem interested, I'll try to continue to fix/improve it.
• General:
• Small adjustments and fixes
• Toolbar has a little less padding
• Toolbar prelight lighter
• Volume slider a little bigger
• Sidebar triangle expanders smaller and softer
• Expander triangles softer
• Scrollbars lighter
• Panel fixes
• Updates for new/updated Apps:
• Banshee
• mintMenu
• Shotwell
• Google Chrome (title bar colors now match window border)
• Anyway, let me know what's good or bad, or if any apps aren't theming right or anything. Thanks again everyone... I really appreciate all the feedback and comments!

What is new in version 2010.06.21:

• Panel:
• Entire Panel re-themed
• Panflute themed
• All Menus Themed
• Gnome MenuBar
• Gnome Main Menu
• SUSE Slab (gnome-main-menu)
• USP (Ubuntu System Panel)
• mintMenu
• Cardapio
• Newly Themed:
• Synaptic
• Gnome Control Center
• SUSE Application Browser
• CompizConfig Settings Manager (ccsm)
• Evolution 2.28/2.30
• Metacity Window Border:
• When Maximized, buttons now respond to clicks at top corners
• X Button now has a bright hover color
• Buttons and Title text now better spaced
• Removed bottom border when maximized
• Fixes:
• Touched up a few things, including:
• Scrollbar
• Toolbar glow
• Arrows everywhere scaled down a bit
• Images on Buttons Better spacing between action icons and text
• Nautilus Sidebar Title:
• Should be easier to read in more colors
• Menu Items when Highlighted:
• Should be easier to read when using very light selected background color with dark selected text color
• Added gtk-auto-mnemonics
• Will show lines under menubar items (File/Edit/etc) only when holding Alt.
• See: http://blogs.gnome.org/thos/2009/12/21/my-first-major-gtk-patch/

What is new in version 2010.05.24:

• Added manual directions for OpenOffice
• Included extended Changelog with more details/credits.
• Fixed a theme problem with Transmission.

What is new in version 2010.05.05:

• Emblems in sidebar and properties dialog more compact
• New sidebar scrollbar for Nautilus
• Just small fixes

What is new in version 2010.04.29:

• The following applications are themed so far:
• Nautilus 2.28 (2.30 does not theme well! I will work on it.)
• Nautilus Elementary 2.28 is recommended (2.30 I have not tried, but likely not to work well.)
• Thunar also recommended
• PCManFM
• Exaile
• Rhythmbox
• Banshee
• Totem
• F-Spot
• Eye of Gnome
• Firefox (Does not like themeing!)
• Google Chrome
• Things that are not good:
• Firefox buttons do not match rest of system.
• Firefox does not honor fixed scrollbar length.
• This theme is not always very 'keyboard navigation' friendly, I am sorry.
• Wish scrollbars were not pixmap, but had same look... wish it was a murrine option, then they would not have to be fixed length.
• Expander triangles - I wish I could pick the fill color. I wish Murrine used triangle expanders.
• Nautilus 2.30, as noted above, does not theme well! Let me know if Nautilus Elementary is the same. I will put up a new version later for 2.30, but it will not look like 2.28.

Requirements:

• GNOME
• gtk+
• Murrine GTK+ engine