Equinox GTK Engine

Equinox GTK Engine is a heavily modified version of the beautiful Aurora engine (1.4). Thanks to his author.

The file below contains both engine and themes (GTK and Metacity) in two separate archives.

Engine installation

First of all, make sure you have installed the GTK+ library development files (libgtk2.0-dev on Debian/Ubuntu, gtk2-devel on Fedora) with your favourite package manager.

Then to compile the Equinox engine, extract the corresponding archive in your home folder. In the new directory, run the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-animation

make

On Fedora 64 bits (and perhaps other distribs), compilation don't work with the options above. You must run:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-animation

Finally, run this command as root:

make install

Themes installation

To install the themes, extract the content of the other archive in your ~/.themes.

The colour used for selected items is dark grey by default, but you can easily change it (and adjust other colours) in Appearance preferences.

Engine options

* curvature = 2.5
* menubarstyle = 1 # 0 = flat, 1 = gradient
* toolbarstyle = 1 # 0 = flat, 1 = gradient
* buttonstyle = 0 # 0 = normal, 1 = glassy
* menuitemstyle = 0 # 0 = normal, 1 = glassy
* listviewheaderstyle = 0 # 0 = normal, 1 = glassy
* scrollbarstyle = 0 # 0 = normal, 1 = glassy, 2 = normal with grip, 3 = glassy with grip
* scalesliderstyle = 0 # 0 = normal, 1 = glassy, 2 = normal with bullet
* checkradiostyle = 0 # 0 = normal, 1 = glassy
* animation = TRUE # FALSE = disabled, TRUE = enabled
* arrowsize = 0.1 # controls combo_arrow circle size. Diameter set by (11 + 2 * arrowsize)

What is new in this release:

• New option resizegripstyle
• New value for menubaritemstyle option (return of the original style !)

What is new in version 1.30.2:

• ENGINE:
• Better rendering for gradient listitems
• THEMES:
• Windows can be dragged from menubar
• Include userChrome.css to fix Firefox/Thunderbird menu issue
• Include Chromium/Chrome theme for Equinox Evolution
• Some fixes

What is new in version 1.30.1:

• Fix missing parameters in function equinox_style_copy

What is new in version 1.30:

• ENGINE:
• New options menubarborders and listviewitemstyle
• New values for menubarstyle and scrollbarstyle options
• Some fixes
• THEMES:
• New themes Evolution and Evolution Light
• Fix bug with Inkscape palette
• Workspace switcher and menubar items more lighter in dark panels
• Fix bugs with some applets: CPU scaling, network monitor, dictionary.
• METACITY:
• Bottom border of all themes reduced
• New themes Evolution Rounded and Evolution Squared

What is new in version 1.20:

• ENGINE:
• New options progressbarstyle and separatorstyle
• New values for options menubarstyle and toolbarstyle to hide borders of menubar and toolbar controls
• Overall performance improved
• Some fixes
• THEMES:
• Better integration in gnome 2.30 (specially for Nautilus)
• New light theme
• METACITY:
• New themes Light and Light Glass in which window controls used the selected background color
• New themes Classic and Classic Glass with a red close button and others in the selected background color

What is new in version 1.1:

• ENGINE:
• Progressbars and tabs now accept curvature option
• New engine option for menuitems style
• New focus rendering for tabs[/li]
• THEMES:
• New Gtkrc theme with wider controls
• Gnome panel with gradient pixmap
• Correct search bar color in Nautilus
• METACITY:
• Title bar reduced
• Space between title and buttons (if needed)
• Various corrections on windows controls

Requirements:

• gtk+
• GNOME