There doesn’t seem to be a customisation forum here, so I was a bit unsure of where to stick this. But I just wanted to give openSUSE Gnome 3 fans (and hopefully the devs ;)) a heads-up on a great theme you’ll be familiar with.
I think it’s been around a bit, but I’ve only just discovered that some one created the Sonar theme for Gnome 3. I’m using it now along with the gorgeous Faience Gnome Shell theme, and the Faenza icons, and openSUSE is looking very nice indeed.
I would absolutely love to see openSUSE go back to using Sonar as its main Gtk theme again. If there’s anyone out there who can make it happen, then please consider this for the next release. It’s a small thing for sure, but it really makes the distro unique imho.
Note to those who may wish to try it - install the Murrine engine from the repositories first as this depends on it and looks ugly without it. It’s really worth it though imho.
That really is excellent news. I had no idea that it was available already, and that the dev worked with the openSUSE team. Top!
It was nice to discover that the theme still worked so well on openSUSE and hasn’t aged at all. I hope that the devs really do make this the default theme again in future for the Gnome edition.
Sorry to bump this thread, but I just wanted to let you know that the version of this theme in the repositories seems to be an earlier version that has this bug. For now I’ve reverted to the 3.2 version from Half-Left on DeviantArt that has been fixed, but I thought it worth posting up in case users experience this problem. Thanks all.
I will add there’s a very slight difference in colour pallet when using the two different versions on my system, so there must be something between them. Just to re-iterate, I’m using the 3.2 version from DeviantArt, and the other version I got straight from the repos (I’m not sure if that’s the same package as the link you supplied, but it does have the same name). If I’m missing something please do let me know. Many thanks.
I also unpacked the two different source and did a diff on them, the
files are exactly the same… strange indeed. Note I’m running it here
without any issue…
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Hi Malcolm. I wonder if the Sonar theme I got from the repositories is different to the package you are linking to above? The one in the repositories is just called Sonar 3.0. The one from DeviantArt is 3.2.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to cause any problems. It can be difficult communicating in this manner, and people can often end up at cross purposes very easily!
Well interestingly, the Gtk3 Sonar theme doesn’t show up at all in the tweak tool unless you also install the Gtk2 one as well. I’ve just removed the Gtk2 one and poof, the Sonar theme is no longer listed.
Like I say it doesn’t matter so much for me as I’m now using the file off DeviantArt, but I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s obviously something I’m doing wrong at my end. As usual. I have a couple of other themes installed too, so I wonder if it’s conflicting with one of those perhaps.
