Xecure
Athena “themes”
I have been working on a set of fluxbox styles with which to contribute to the antiX project, following noClues advice in the To Modernize antiX topic.
Trying to complement the “auditorio de Tenerife” wallpaper default on antiX19b, I selected blue as the “flashy” color for both a dark and light “theme”. For the darker style, I chose a darker blue that complements the blue in default “Arc-EvoPro2” gtk theme that comes with antiX19b, and a lighter sky-blue for the lighter theme, that also shares similar colors with “Arc-EvoPro2”.
I was looking for something related to Greece, even though antiX doesn’t advertise its origin very much. As light blue/sky blue is one of the colors that represents the Hellenic Goddess Athena, I chose that name for the “theme”. Athena is the embodiment of virtue. She maintains and protects law and justice and has an interest in everything which creates stability, strength and abundance. I found this interesting, and wasn’t able to find any other fluxbox style with this name, so here it is.
I don’t want to extend myself too much, so I will cut to the chase. The dark theme and light theme aren’t flashy and try to cater to the “modern” simplistic look we find trending in most distros. Nothing too showy.
As it is standard in antiX, each style comes in three sizes: normal (small), Medium and Large. I have tried to adapt the text, toolbar, menu and window decoration sizes so that they work for each specific case (small for low resolution, Large for HiDPI, Medium for mostly any case). I have checked on different screen sizes and think I have achieved a good balance.
If you enjoy fluxbox and wouldn’t mind to take a look, I would really appreciate your feedback.
After a comfy sleep I rethought all the close buttons, that looked too similar to Windows. Discarded. Now it looks cleaner.
Special thanks:
My thanks to noClue. I have been learning a lot these days on design. I have observed how you decide colors, and how to make it so they complement each other in a theme.
My thanks to skidoo for his advice, and for his help with gitlab. I had problems with a push, as there were “hook problems”, so I ended up going the web IDE route, following the instructions in his posts. With your help I may finally be able to contribute with something interesting. I will wait so see if this is good enough before asking for a merge with the antix-contribs/fluxbox-themes-antix project.
You can download the themes here:
Athena-dark
Athena-light
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