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Reply #75 on: July 13, 2023, 03:31:10 PM
Quote from: miker1264 on July 13, 2023, 03:22:46 PM


Would you mind sharing it by posting a zip file here?  ;D

The screenshot doesn't do it justice. I'm sure it looks better.

I post it ugly, Ubuntu can't be more beautiful than AROS ;D

If you have downloaded AROS One, you will find the Ubuntu Theme and many others created by me in the Prefs\Presets\Themes path.

At your Themes I made a small modification, reduced the top bar to fit DigiClock and AROS One "Text" Logo, also I gave to "SDepth" the color of the Theme, in my opinion it looks more elegant, don't blame me for that !
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Reply #76 on: July 13, 2023, 04:15:52 PM
AMIGASYSTEM

It looks great. Thank you.

Currently if I were to add 8 color variations of the Modern & Plastic styles plus some odds & ends as well as a few more I could put together about 50 AROS themes.

So my long-term plan is to post "100 AROS Themes" on AROS Exec for everyone to use & enjoy. These will be themes built by me including some variations of current themes as well as completely new themes for AROS users.

That's my plan. It may take several weeks to finish it all.  :)


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Reply #77 on: July 13, 2023, 04:20:26 PM
All 100 of them I will not put on AROS One otherwise the DVD is not enough anymore ;D

I will surely choose the ones that fit best on AROS One x86/68k

If you need or want to modify some of my Themes you are free to do so !


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Reply #78 on: July 13, 2023, 04:30:51 PM
Quote from: AMIGASYSTEM on July 13, 2023, 04:20:26 PM
All 100 of them I will not put on AROS One otherwise the DVD is not enough anymore ;D

I will surely choose the ones that fit best on AROS One x86/68k

If you need or want to modify some of my Themes you are free to do so !

Thanks. You have some interesting themes. Some of them look really nice!

All 100 themes may only be less than 10MB. Each theme averages 50kb in size. But 100 themes might represent 200 hours of tedious work.  :o

But I wouldn't want anyone to say "I can't find any theme to match my background image" or "why are we stuck with using lavender blue drawer icons. Where are the colors?" or lastly, "Why can't we have neon blue, neon green, or red or orange, or purple glow borders?". Yes. All of this is being done by me. No  more boring icons or lack of window themes!
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Reply #79 on: July 14, 2023, 09:31:03 AM
Would something like this be possible?


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Reply #80 on: July 14, 2023, 12:05:54 PM
Quote from: pixie on July 14, 2023, 09:31:03 AM
Would something like this be possible?

Yes. That theme is possible.  It's a custom theme.

It just takes some time to do the graphics and for processing to put everything in it's folder and renaming. The config file sometimes needs adjustment as well.


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Reply #81 on: July 14, 2023, 02:03:52 PM
well, you get some alpha effects, and some differences in the windows scrolling gadgets, but I think it's actually quite neat!


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Reply #82 on: July 14, 2023, 02:23:09 PM
Quote from: pixie on July 14, 2023, 09:31:03 AM
Would something like this be possible?

The Theme is easy to create, the diffile is to create of icons in that style, AROS has hundreds of Icons  :o


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Reply #83 on: July 14, 2023, 05:56:42 PM
This is the AROS Modern Forest Green theme.


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Reply #84 on: July 14, 2023, 06:01:49 PM
This is my concept for the "AROS Tree Hugger" theme.

The concept itself comes from an OS3.x skin. This is my interpretation of it for AROS. Of course I re-created all of it. As you can see I had to actually draw the mitered corner. The original os3.x version is provided in the top right corner.  It took a good two hours or more to paint the corner and to superimpose the gadgets to make them all blend together.

But now this will be a template for other themes with those 3d mitered corners with opaque arrow gadgets. I like it.

Now that the concept is complete I just need to take the artwork for the arrow gadgets and size gadget and divide them up into PNG images then the theme will be complete.
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Reply #85 on: July 15, 2023, 11:06:22 AM
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Do you know where I can find a Tiffany theme for AROS x86 ?

Notice that I don't mean AfA OS which use os3.x skins. I'm looking for the AROS version.

I suspect that AROS doesn't use BorderBottom, BorderRight & BorderLeft images for themes. So AROS can't display 3d rounded bottom & side window borders like for AfA OS Fourone theme or the Tiffany theme & many more.

I may take a look at the AROS theme code to see what it's doing or not doing.  8)
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Reply #86 on: July 15, 2023, 12:02:04 PM
I don't think there is Tiffany theme for AROS, as I had mentioned it is complicated to adapt it, but it might be useful to study the similar Themes like MOS and Glass, see screenshot !


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Reply #87 on: July 15, 2023, 12:22:45 PM
I asked about Tiffany as a test case. It has the 3d mitered right corner drawn on the window frame. Os3.x & OS4 & possibly MOS use BorderBottom, etc.

I took a look in the code for window decoration class in intuition library in the rom. It doesn't have a provision for drawing 3d rounded borders. It only draws flat frames.

So perhaps the AROS code needs to be expanded for the window decoration to allow more complex window themes.


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Reply #88 on: July 15, 2023, 12:26:46 PM
I couldn't answer that, but the MOS Theme for AROS seemed to me to have something that could help !


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Reply #89 on: July 15, 2023, 01:18:27 PM
This is a design I came up with yesterday.

It is called "Geometric Blue". The theme style is squared, geometric that uses Tiffany colors such as red, green, blue & maybe orange or purple.

The all-white window frame is also reminiscent of Tiffany & I intend to change the Close gadget to an 'X' like Tiffany.

I suppose we may call it a Modified Tiffany theme design.


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