Support dark variation of the theme

[Andrea Cimitan]

We should support Gtk+3 dark variation of the theme, by providing one

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Is that going to be as simple as the current sed script for Gtk2?

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

Other major question would be: is the window manager ready for this?

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

No, it's not yet and is what is blocking us atm

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[James Ye (lolz836)]

It would be nice, but I would say that it wouldn't work well with light-themes, and also metacity and unity-window-decorator don't support dark metacity themes (only mutter and muffin do)

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

What is muffin? I usually eat those :)

[James Ye (lolz836)]

Muffin is a fork of Mutter for the Cinnamon desktop environment, since the Linux Mint team really like foods and spices.

[James Ye (lolz836)]

The GTK+ dark theme works by just copying gtk.css from Ambiance to gtk-dark.css to Radiance. Can't yet figure out how to make the titlebar dark, though. This a just a preliminary upload so I won't mark as a patch yet, as it is experimental (and I used it off a beta version of light-themes from Precise as I haven't upgraded yet.

[James Ye (lolz836)]

It doesn't work well with Ambiance though, the fonts are blurred. I don't have enough time to fix this for now.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Is this related to or a duplicate of bug 158392?