GNOME Color Chooser - A great tool
Scribbled on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Updated on: 31 July, 2008 at 5:24 PM IST
I found this tool to be a great GUI enhancer without any hassles of digging from the developer perspective. After all we need easy life and why waste time in doing something which is less of a priority, at least for me. This tool is for Debian and Ubuntu.
Features:
- change most important colors (background, windows decorations, tooltip etc)
- change the size of widgets (buttons, scrollbars, progress bars etc)
- allows use of light colored wallpapers without getting text unreadable on desktop.
- adjust the size of start menu/panel menu/large toolbars.
- colorize desktop icons and hover effect.(requires gtk2.18+)
- configure your gtk engines and let your current theme parts be drawn by individual engines o f your choice.(requires gtk2.18+ or themes aware of newly introduced schema)
- and lots of other goodies to enhance your desktop
I am thankful to the developer who took the pain to roll out the version for gtk2. Hompage URL for this tool is really funny, but nonetheless here is the URL http://www.punk-ass-bitch.org/gnome-color-chooser/
Installation:
NOTE: Ubuntu users not using Hardy Heron(8.04) please add this repo to the sources.list (/etc/apt/sources.list), but remove this line from the sources.list file after installing the gnome-color-chooser, as you dont want your Gutsy to be Hardy:
deb http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy main universe
- Install Gnome Color Chooser from synaptic (For Ubuntu users not using Hardy Heron 8.04 add the Hardy repository before installing from Synaptic as described above)
OR
the age old method of command line to install it
For Ubuntu:
For Debian
- Open it from System > Preferences > GNOME Color Chooser
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4 Responses to “GNOME Color Chooser - A great tool”
Hey! Very Very Nice tutorial…I am gonna try this right away!…
BTW! who is the lady in wallie? She looks cute! hehe…
By Quiz_Master on Sat 19th Apr, 2008
Glad u liked it, even I luv it so much, now i can hav light wallpapers and so many more GUI enhancements.
By visio159 on Sat 19th Apr, 2008
This tutorial is very good, but the choice for the wallpaper i think is not the best, since it can be offensive for some women, when women are so welcome in the GNU/Linux community… I would feel a bit concerned on reccomending a female friend about this tutorial, it’s like one time i needed to show, for example, what about were SGI Indigo, and the Wikipedia page about it had a sexist wallpaper… I think you can get the point… =/
By nitrofurano on Mon 24th Nov, 2008