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Antonio Ospite, theorist attacks

I've been using the new Gnome 3 for a while now, and despite its shortcomings, it has increased my productivity. You can see how much potential it has, especially given new multi-gesture mouse pads coming on these days... Hats off to the Gnome developers for dragging us into the future.

Hey Folks,
I just stumbled upon this page and thought I'd say thanks for the info.
May I also add that you should all be more vocal about the obtrusiveness of Gnome 3 - recent releases in the world of Linux UX (Unity, KDE4, GNOME3) are all adding to the suffocation of Linux. The market share for this awesome (set of) OS will remain at 1% unless something is done .... ;)

Instead of working on a patch, I'm trying an alternative approach that is easier to apply and quicker to test.

The following css goes into a file named "gtk.css" in the user home directory under ".config/gtk-3.0" (which may have to be created) and it works with the default gnome theme.

The css is based on your patch, but is slightly different and not particularly beautiful, nor complete... I'm still looking how to do some things as for example, adding a border to menus or adding spaces between elements in the task-bar so that borders do not touch.

btw: I Hate css, you never know what it applies to... it is unreadable as hell and themes are mostly undocumented. Bah!!!

Anyway here is my attempt:

@define-color os_chrome_bg_color @theme_bg_color;
@define-color os_chrome_fg_color black;
@define-color os_chrome_selected_bg_color #5aa0e9;
@define-color os_chrome_selected_fg_color black;

@define-color fallback_selected_bg_color #5aa0e9;
@define-color fallback_selected_fg_color white;

@define-color chrome_bg_color #1e1a17;
@define-color chrome_fg_color #fff;

@define-color keyboard_focus_border_a #a2c9f1;
@define-color keyboard_focus_border_b #6794cf;

/**********************
 * Fallback Mode Panel
 **********************/

.gnome-panel-menu-bar {
    -PanelMenuBar-icon-visible: true;
}

.gnome-panel-menu-bar,
PanelApplet > GtkMenuBar.menubar,
PanelToplevel,
PanelWidget,
PanelAppletFrame,
PanelApplet {
   background-color: @os_chrome_bg_color;
   background-image: none;
  	color: @os_chrome_fg_color;
}

ClockBox,
.gnome-panel-menu-bar.menubar,
PanelApplet > GtkMenuBar.menubar {
    font: -bold;
}

.gnome-panel-menu-bar.menubar .menuitem *:hover,
PanelApplet > GtkMenuBar.menubar .menuitem *:hover {
    text-shadow: none;
}

.gnome-panel-menu-bar.menubar .menu,
PanelApplet > GtkMenuBar.menubar .menu {
    font: regular;
}

.gnome-panel-menu-bar.menubar .menu *:hover,
PanelApplet > GtkMenuBar.menubar .menu *:hover {
    text-shadow: none;
}

.gnome-panel-menu-bar .menuitem:hover,
PanelApplet > GtkMenuBar.menubar .menuitem:hover,
.gnome-panel-menu-bar .menuitem *:hover,
PanelApplet > GtkMenuBar.menubar .menuitem *:hover {
    background-color: @os_chrome_selected_bg_color;
    color: @fallback_selected_fg_color;
}

.gnome-panel-menu-bar .menuitem *:hover,
PanelApplet > GtkMenuBar.menubar .menuitem *:hover {
    color: @fallback_selected_fg_color;
}

PanelApplet .button,
PanelApplet .button:hover {
    padding: 4px;

    border-image: none;
    border-width: 0;
    border-radius: 0;

    background-image: none;
    background-color: @os_chrome_bg_color;

    color: @os_chrome_fg_color;
    text-shadow: none;
}

PanelApplet .button:active:hover,
PanelApplet .button:active {
    border-image: none;
    background-image: none;
    background-color: @os_chrome_selected_bg_color;
    border-width: 0;
    border-radius: 0;
}

/* Agisce sul clock */
PanelApplet *:hover {
    color: @os_chrome_selected_fg_color;
}

/* Agisce sul clock */
PanelApplet *:active,
PanelApplet *:hover:active {
    color: @fallback_selected_fg_color;
    text-shadow: none;
}

NaTrayApplet {
    -NaTrayApplet-icon-padding: 2px;
    -NaTrayApplet-icon-size: 16px;
}

WnckPager, WnckTasklist {
    background-color: @theme_bg_color;
    background-image: none;
    color: @theme_text_color;
}

WnckTasklist .button,
WnckTasklist .button:hover,
WnckTasklist .button:active,
WnckTasklist .button:active:hover {
    border-width: 1px;
    border-radius: 4px;
    border-color: #888;
}

WnckTasklist .button:hover,
WnckTasklist .button *:hover {
    color: @theme_text_color;
    background-color: mix(@chrome_bg_color, white, 0.8);
    text-shadow: @button_text_shadow 0 0;
}

WnckTasklist .button:active {
    color: @theme_text_color;
    background-color: mix(#5aa0e9, black, 0.1);
    text-shadow: @button_text_shadow 0 1;
}

WnckTasklist .button:active:hover,
WnckTasklist .button *:active:hover {
    color: @button_active_text;
    background-color: mix(#5aa0e9, black, 0.2);
    text-shadow: @button_active_text_shadow 0 0;
}


GsmFailWhaleDialog {
    background-color: @os_chrome_bg_color;
    background-image: none;
    color: @os_chrome_fg_color;
}

GsmFailWhaleDialog .button,
GsmFailWhaleDialog .button:focus,
GsmFailWhaleDialog .button:active,
GsmFailWhaleDialog .button:active:focus {
    border-image: none;
    border-color: @borders;
    border-width: 1px;
}

/* gnome-screensaver lock dialog */
GSLockPlug .frame {
    border-color: @borders;
    border-width: 1px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-radius: 0;
}


/**************
 * Scrollbars *
 **************/

.scrollbar {
   -GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper: true;
   -GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper: true;
}