Dain Bramaged

[Dan]

Yeesh! I hate it when this happens.

I've recently read that Gnome3 (shell) has a configuration file buried somewhere. Trouble is I can't find the reference. It was a CSS file I believe.

Anyone remember where that file is located ... ?

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[pete_1967]

You sure you can configure anything in it anymore?

[Dan]

*Sigh!* I'm hoping ...

There's a css file in /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme, but I'm not sure that's the one I want to start ripping the guts out of first.

[smr54]

I think you click the start button and type regedit. :D

[Dan]

Scott ... that's just ... sick! <..:p..>

[bruce89]

Look, it's me back, who'd have thought it?

Anyway, I don't know which configuration file this would be. I'd have thought dconf or the theme CSS itself would be where stuff would be.

[Dan]

Good. And I damn well hope you'll stick around.

This CSS file looks promising. ( /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme ) Uhm ... are you any good with CSS? I generally suck at it, but I'm fixin' to try to top tweak this thing. What I'm after, is the title bar, first. Trying to accomplish this:

(Specifically the look on the mixer window, and the scrollbars, and the icon/tab highlights.)

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/picture.php?albumid=212&pictureid=854

[bruce89]

Good. And I damn well hope you'll stick around.

Of course I will, I'll just try and avoid certain things.

This CSS file looks promising. ( /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme ) Uhm ... are you any good with CSS? I generally suck at it, but I'm fixin' to try to top tweak this thing. What I'm after, is the title bar, first. Trying to accomplish this:

(Specifically the look on the mixer window, and the scrollbars, and the icon/tab highlights.)

I'm not sure if I can be a huge amount of use, but I'll say what limited stuff I do know.

The title bar is mutter's job. So, that will need a metacity theme. I think it's possible to set that with {g,d}conf.

The widgets are GTK+ (mostly anyway). Now, the problem is complicated by the fact that some things use gtk2, others gtk3. I suppose a theme could be created that uses whatever gtk2 theme that is, and also has the default (the only) GTK+ 3.0 one.

Now, GTK+ 3.0 theming is CSS (mainly). You can override the selected theme with a CSS file at ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css. The documentation of the syntax GTK+ supports is at http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk3/stable/GtkCssProvider.html.

However, the CSS can only override the basic properties of the widgets, so in order to get something like the picture, a GtkThemingEngine would need to be written.

An exceddingly crappy (and horribly ugly) CSS file follows:
.slider
{
background-color: blue;
}

.notebook tab
{
background-color: blue;
}

[DBelton]

George "Harmonica" Smith?

Wowzerz! Didn't think anyone else was as into the blues and old as I was! :D

Love his style.. Got any bacon fat? or bib mama thornton? Some of the others he played with through the years. :)

Ok ok.. back on topic now. :)

[Dan]

Unfortunately no. Mostly I listen to internet radio blues. That one was/is 1.FM Absolute Blues channel. (Tuned through shoutcast)

I record 30 minute song sets and poke them into my new Sansa Clip Plus Mp3 player (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1436797), and listen on the road, during workouts etc.

[DBelton]

I just love the old blues, though. Guess that's a result of being from memphis, tn.

speaking of blues (and to stay on topic) have you found a way to change that black activity bar to blue yet? :D

[Dan]

Not yet ... but I'm workin' on it.

Memphis, you say?!

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=279

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=214

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=278

Meh. Never heard of it. <..:p..>

[DBelton]

eeewww! what an ugly city!! :p

that be memphis, though. they could have at least got a pic of the monorail in the first picture, though. that's the track for it, but you can't see the monorail

[Dan]

Ahem! Yer yakkin' at the photographer. <..:dis:..>

<..:p..>

[DBelton]

:p

actually having the monorail in that shot would have detracted from the rest of the image.

Those are some great picture, though.. what camera do you use?

my better digital went for a swim last fall and I haven't replaced it yet, so for digital, I fell back to my minolta dimage s414 I got awhile back. it takes pretty good pics considering what it is, though. Film, I like my trusty ole pentax that I have had for years.

[DCOH]

Dan don't know if this is the page your refering to or not, but it might help. This tells how to edit gnome shell css

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1479239

[kraekan]

oops. double post. sorry.

[kraekan]

Dan don't know if this is the page your refering to or not, but it might help. This tells how to edit gnome shell css

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1479239

Excellent, thanks. I found the Application overview icons too big after the initial update. Have tweeked things a bit. Seems OK so far but care should obviously be taken playing around with it.

/* Apps */

.icon-grid {
spacing: 36px;
/* spacing: 36px;*/
-shell-grid-item-size: 92px;
/* -shell-grid-item-size: 118px;*/
}

.icon-grid .overview-icon {
icon-size: 62px;
/* icon-size: 96px;*/
}

These changes seem OK on my netbook so far.

[Dan]

:p

actually having the monorail in that shot would have detracted from the rest of the image.

Those are some great picture, though.. what camera do you use?

my better digital went for a swim last fall and I haven't replaced it yet, so for digital, I fell back to my minolta dimage s414 I got awhile back. it takes pretty good pics considering what it is, though. Film, I like my trusty ole pentax that I have had for years.

FujiFilm FinePix S9600 ... right up until I misjudged a critical distance.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=245792&highlight=S9600

But it came out OK in the end. With a few judicious repairs, it's back to capturing photons again. <..:)..>

[Wayne]

I'm sure you've misspelled "Drain Bamaged"

[Dan]

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[DBelton]

I guess your drain got bamaged along with your camera, Dan :D

those fuji finepix are pretty decent cameras for the price. I have been looking at gettng one of them myself ever since I used my cousin's a year or so back. I don't do professional stuff so I don't really need to sink the bux into a super great rig, but I do want one that will take pretty good pics.

and like you stated in the thread you mentioned above..


"Don't get too extravagant. Dan ... you don't do studio stuff. You shoot in the field. And if your shooter gets whacked in the field, which isn't a matter of if, but when, you'd much rather cry the blues about three digits worth of oopsy, instead of four ... or five.


(I can tell myself your quote word for word.. cause my name is Dan, too. :D )