AROS Window Themes

[miker1264]

Here is the completed Forest Green Theme.

For Icaros users place the unzipped theme in Prefs/Presets/Themes. In Prefs drawer is an icon called "Theme" that's the Lua-based Theme Manager by paolone.

[miker1264]

Here is a better screenshot.

[NinjaCowboy]

Is it possible for AROS to have shadows around windows like AmigaOS 4?

[miker1264]

I'm not sure if Drop Shadow is possible in AROS but if so it might be in some of the Prefs.

[miker1264]

Here is a new style AROS Modern Forest Green.

The slider knobs are different and the button gadgets and size gadgets are drawn directly on the flat window frame. Also there are no separators between the gadgets in the Titlebar which gives it a cleaner, more modern look. 

Of course this style will also have many color variations. I'd like for it to be one of the default AROS window themes. The banded themes called "Pearl" are also quite standard for AROS. But it depends on who is setting up the distro.

[miker1264]

Here is AROS Modern Bright Blue.

I believe it looks nice and clean. Very modern.

[NinjaCowboy]

One tiny issue I see is that the right side of the vertical scrollbar looks clipped. I don't see the edge of it.

[miker1264]

One tiny issue I see is that the right side of the vertical scrollbar looks clipped. I don't see the edge of it.

Good eyes!

I noticed it also. I have since fixed it.

Which looks better - Convex Titlebar or Concave Titlebar ?

Note that the far right edge of the vertical slider bar is fixed.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

I had the same problem on the OWB Bar and other application bars, then on AROS One v2.1 I changed the "convex" appearance of the bars on Zune Prefs, now writing on the bar is immediate and better visible.

[NinjaCowboy]

Note that the far right edge of the vertical slider bar is fixed.

I think you still need a pixel or two. There should be a 1-pixel black border surrounding the entire slider. Sorry to nitpick. 

[miker1264]

Note that the far right edge of the vertical slider bar is fixed.

I think you still need a pixel or two. There should be a 1-pixel black border surrounding the entire slider. Sorry to nitpick. 

You are correct. It seems there is something wrong with the coordinates in the Config file for the vertical slider knob & container. The slider knob image is correct but it's in the wrong location. The vertical slider knob needs to move to the left.

I'm trying to figure out the values in the Config file. There does not seem to be much documentation. I found information about the Titlebar & ScreenBar but so far nothing about the slider bar values.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Indeed it's not easy to interpret, especially if you don't know English well, I made my Tempi using a bit of intuition and a lot of testing, your OS4 themes I'd say are already great, I'll put them on AROS One at the must of my less qualitative ones.

This is an OS4 version I made up by doing a mix of themes

[miker1264]

Nice composition. Which theme is that?

I'd like to examine it and take a peek at the config file.

Could you post it here or is it for OS3 instead?

[AMIGASYSTEM]

You can find this Theme on AROS One x86/68k, the theme is called AfA OS, see Icon in screenshot ! I don't remember where I got the pieces from and what modification I made, you find all the pieces in the various themes included on the latest versions of AROS One

[miker1264]

Thanks. I found it. It seems similar to pixblue & OS4 blue.

I'll look at the config file to try to make sense of it. 

After much research and experimenting I have concluded the obvious. No matter what we put in the Config file AROS will do what it wants to display the window theme. I'm not sure why.