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Fingel

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Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 98

"Compact" Gtk themes?

Hello
I use a laptop, so screen real estate is very important to me. I've notices that most GTK2 themes seem really "poofy" with a lot of unecessary white space between elements. Does anyone know of a good gtk2 theme that compresses stuff together a little better so there is more room for the important stuff?
Heres a picture that kind of illustrates what I mean. Its a comparison between firefox runnig on windows 7 and running on Linux using the clearlooks engine.

You can see that the file, edit, view etc items are spaced way too far apart. Also, vertial space is smaller on windows, but not by much. I realize firefox is not the best example app to use because it can use its own themes, but I couldnt find any other comparison app to use as an example.
Thanks!

splittercode

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From: WI, USA

Registered: 2010-03-16

Posts: 203

Re: "Compact" Gtk themes?

Dyne is pretty good for this.

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ … tent=61936
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ … tent=70450

Also, using a smaller font will decrease your menu size, obviously.

Last edited by splittercode (2010-05-05 20:33:54)

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: "Compact" Gtk themes?

I like Calla:

Panels, systray, docks etc also take a lot of space, get rid of them! if you want to keep the "eye-candy",  use gnome-do and cairo-dock instead.

(The screenshot looks a bit weird because sonata in the background is set to have no window decorations...)

http://thrynk.deviantart.com/art/Calla-47545886 - it looks a bit different on the deviantart-screenshot (huge scrollbars?); I use the emerald theme

Last edited by hokasch (2010-05-05 20:40:45)

Fingel

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Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 98

Re: "Compact" Gtk themes?

Calla is super nice! And it does save a lot of space, espeically with size 8 fonts. Thank you hokash.
I also found this:
http://martin.ankerl.com/2007/11/04/cle … ome-theme/
Which is a compact version of clearlooks. It doesnt look as good though because it is just a hacked version of clearlooks with reduced spacing.

dmz

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-08-27

Posts: 881

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Re: "Compact" Gtk themes?

Once I had the same irritating problems as you. I made this http://trapd00r.deviantart.com/art/Ange … K-99438627
Nowadays I use the default gtk2 theme though, the only time I see it is when I see the nasty gtk2-save-file-to-disk firefox dialog box.

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