1 Theming Gnome Shell:Intro
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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9 For the last several months, I've been running gnome-shell full time. For
10 those of you who don't know what this is, it is version 3 of Gnome, one of the
11 many available Linux graphical user interfaces (see
12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME[here] for more info). We are currently on
13 something like 2.3 for the stable release of Gnome I believe.
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15 With this new major release of Gnome, its developers significantly changed the
16 interface in an attempt to simplify window and virtual desktop management,
17 bringing Linux just one step closer to being more "user friendly".
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19 Along with all of this change came a new method for theming and tweaking the
20 look and feel of things. In the past, Gnome used multiple configuration files
21 that were cumbersome to edit. In this new release, Gnome has switched over to
22 using...you guessed it... CSS! How exciting.
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24 Continuing on, for those of you who don't know what CSS is, it's basically a
25 "programming language" (I know I know, it's not technically a programming
26 language) used primarily to style websites. In most cases this takes the form
27 of setting the background image or color, font size, family and color, and
28 various other style-related things on the interwebz. This is really great
29 because standards are already in place for CSS making Gnome-shell much easier
30 to theme and learn to theme.
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32 If anyone reading this blog doesn't personally know me (which is quite likely
33 since Google knows more people than I do), I'm basically addicted to theming my
34 computer. If you ask my girlfriend, while we were in college together she would
35 be doing homework and I would theme my computer for hours on end when I SHOULD
36 have been doing my homework. When Gnome-shell came out, I got addicted pretty
37 quickly.
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39 This post is a precursor to my theme postings. I've made so many out of boredom
40 (and that I just can't seem to find quite the right look) that I feel kind of
41 bad not posting them for all to use. I will also write a few posts regarding
42 how to theme Gnome-shell as well. But first, some themes!!!
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44 Category:Linux
45 Category:Gnome
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