Ultimate Gnome

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I was tired of half-good themes with some icon from the Mac OS and others from some Crystal theme. So I decided to create my own theme based on what I like.
The "Ultimate Gnome" it's an icon theme for the GNOME linux desktop environment. It is a distro independent theme tested on Gnome 2.24.1 completely drawn with Inkscape. Every icon is drawn in a vectorial format (SVG/XML), and it is exported into a raster format (PNG) for fastest rendering on the screen. The work is published under a GPL (v2), hoping this will help those developers who need a GPL license to include this theme in their software.

More informations can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/ultimate-gnome/
Last changelog:

9 years ago

2009/02/09 v0.5.1: Changed cut, paste and copy icons. PNG release for faster rendering and better quality.
If you found problems when installing, please read this https://sites.google.com/site/ultimate-gnome/help/cannot-reinstall-or-upgrade-theme

29/11/2008 There are some problems with GNOME 2.24.1 that cannot be resolved. I'm waiting for gnome to fix them. If you want to know more you could find some informations following this links: http://code.google.com/p/ultimate-gnome/issues/detail?id=14 and http://code.google.com/p/ultimate-gnome/issues/detail?id=19.

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sousuke

12 years ago

I've noticed that when I have this theme on whenever I try to save a picture in firefox, the "save as" window takes longer to scan the directories.

As i browse to the directory i want to save my pic in, all pictures in the directory are displayed in the window. The load time for this is longer compared to the human theme for example.

Has anybody else experienced this?

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Newmooon

12 years ago

It's because they're SVG.
The png images weight more, but they're simply buffered and easy displayed.
The SVG icons are "rendered" there is more CPU usage with a completely SVG theme.

I'm thinking of adding all the PNG subformats but with the all PNG subformats it becomes a bit difficult to change or modify an icon in the theme (for a common user) because you have to export all the PNG from the modified SVG file.

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kiwiadam2

12 years ago

icons that are actually original - it's a miricale. thanks for making something new

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Newmooon

12 years ago

I'm not very expert in GTK engines.. so I don't really know what I've to do and what you're asking me.. :(
Can you try to explain it better to me?

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kiwiadam2

12 years ago

make it look better with Murrine

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Newmooon

12 years ago

Ok I'll try.. but I don't have much time like everybody here.. So I don't know when I'll start working on it.

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cimi86

12 years ago

What do you think about improving that icon set to provide a glossy complementary icon set to the Murrine engine?

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Anywhere

12 years ago

I seem to remember commenting that these icons would complement the new Murrine.

Newmoon, I hope you take him up on that suggestion. Cimi's new Murrine with transparency would look great with the Ultimate Gnome icons, and I'm eager to see how they look together.

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systemx

12 years ago

very kool theme... thanx very much for it!

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Anywhere

12 years ago

It appears that icons for .txt files no longer preview their contents. Is this intentional?

I liked it better with the contents previewed.

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Newmooon

12 years ago

The missing preview fro *.txt files has been fixed in version 0.1.5 , but I'm going to remove the preview from the files because I think it's better having a simple icon.

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Newmooon

12 years ago

No it's not intentional I'll fix it as soon as possible. Thank you for the segnalation.

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Anywhere

12 years ago

The best "happy-medium" I've found between the default, functional icons Gnome has, and the glassy, photo-realistic look in Vista/Mac. The Murrine engine will soon support transparency and this should complement it well!

http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2007/12/12/gtk-rgba-transparent-widgets-with-the-murrine-engine/

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tibellus

12 years ago

This is one of the best icon themes I've ever used. It really is good looking, but kinda lacks some things, like icons for Songbird, Inkscape, gnome-calculator, etc. Also, I would appreciate if you would make a twitux or gtwitter icon:D I adore your iconset, and I would be really glad to see it complete.

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Newmooon

12 years ago

I'm working on it.. in the next week I'll be a bit busy but I'm planning to write a wish list and starting add new icon to the "Ultimate".
Thank you all.

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tubatodd

12 years ago

Excellent! Very good looking and very high quality. I can't wait to see more.

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Newmooon

12 years ago

I'm uploading the package to Google Code, because there's an error somewhere.
I'll add an ubuntu-logo icon (maybe something blue).
I don't know what to do with the folder colors, have I only to add orange folder or to create a brand new theme with all the icons colored in orange.

(Sorry for my english)

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dasGewitter

12 years ago

Here's a working package and alternate download site:

http://rapidshare.com/files/90572597/UltimateGnome.tar.gz.html

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lopagof

12 years ago

wow, you accomplish what other crystal themes fail at.

(borat voice) very nice, high five!

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tubatodd

12 years ago

This file can't be decompressed due to errors.

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goldminer766

12 years ago

replaced my onld theme. here's a request, if you don't mind.
Could you change add an icon for the small logo of your OS (like ubuntu's circle thing, in the top left corner, next to "applcations".)

I love this theme, but the orange ubuntu doesn't fit with the blue icons. My last theme had a blue ubuntu logo. Anyway, keep up the good work! :)

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Newmooon

12 years ago

I don't know if making a version of the ubuntu logo will compromise the license of the theme. If someone could tell me something about the license of ubuntu logo, I would change it soon.

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andril

12 years ago

I haven't downloaded it yet but I like what I see - can we get more colors for the folders like - human, graphite and such? Thanks In Advance

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dasGewitter

12 years ago

I have also encountered this error.

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eitreach

12 years ago

There appears to be some sort of error with the file. I cannot open it.

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9 years ago

2009/02/09 v0.5.1: Changed cut, paste and copy icons. PNG release for faster rendering and better quality.
If you found problems when installing, please read this https://sites.google.com/site/ultimate-gnome/help/cannot-reinstall-or-upgrade-theme

29/11/2008 There are some problems with GNOME 2.24.1 that cannot be resolved. I'm waiting for gnome to fix them. If you want to know more you could find some informations following this links: http://code.google.com/p/ultimate-gnome/issues/detail?id=14 and http://code.google.com/p/ultimate-gnome/issues/detail?id=19.

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