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Elegance Colors is a highly customizable chameleon theme for Gnome Shell. It can change colors according to the current GTK theme, current wallpaper (uses imagemagick to get color) or use a user defined color.

Currently Elegance Colors supports Gnome Shell 3.6 and 3.8.

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Installation Instructions:



Ubuntu users can install Elegance Colors from our themes PPA using the following commands,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:satyajit-happy/themes
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-theme-elegance-colors

Fedora users can add the repo [link] and then install Elegance Colors using the following commands,

sudo yum install gnome-shell-theme-elegance-colors

If you use another distro, you need to compile from source. This is needed for the GUI.

Don't worry, it is easy and straight forward.

You need to install the build-dependencies first (package names may vary depending on your distro),

glib2-devel gtk3-devel vala

Extract the archive, navigate to the directory and type the following commands in a terminal,

make
sudo make install

To derive color from wallpaper, you need to install ImageMagick

Also install the User Theme Extension for Gnome Shell [link]

A process runs in background which detects changes, generates the theme and reloads the theme accordingly. After installation, you must run the following command to start the background process,

elegance-colors

To set the theme, run the following commands,

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme name 'elegance-colors'

You can launch the GUI from the menu which lets you customise various aspects of the the theme. You can also export your customized theme, import/export settings from the GMenu. Click on the title in the Gnome Shell top bar to get the GMenu.

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Troubleshooting:



If you have installed the user-theme extension from the extensions.gnome.org website, you might need to run the following command before elegance-colors can work,

elegance-colors fix

It is recommended to stop any previous instances of elegance-colors when updating to a new version. You can kill running processes of elegance-colors with the command,

killall elegance-colors

To view any error messages produced, stop the background process first and then run the process in Terminal,

elegance-colors stop
elegance-colors start

To manually apply changes, run,

elegance-colors apply

To export the theme, run,

elegance-colors export /path/to/themefile.zip

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Code: [link]

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Credits: Thanks to Alin Andrei [link] and Brian Bentsen [link] for their valuable suggestions and testing.

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License: GPL-3.0+
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~0xMatt 1 day ago  New member
Well i installed on fedora 19 using your repo and there is no 3.8 support there. I will remove it and compile the version on your github page which is the actual updated version that works perfectly. Let me know when you've fixed this and i'll enable the repo once more..

Will always use elegance colors for it is the best theme customizer for gnome shell.

You should do something so we can customize the GTK and Window theme for Gnome now ;p
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~satya164 21 hours ago  Hobbyist General Artist
And 3.8 support is in the repo now :D
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~satya164 23 hours ago  Hobbyist General Artist
Well, you can use the Fedora 18 repo for now. OpenSUSE build service doesn't have Fedora 19 repo added yet :(

[link]
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Mood: Love ~Rasa13 May 7, 2013
so awesome. thank you!
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~satya164 23 hours ago  Hobbyist General Artist
You're welcome :D
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~StingBL May 7, 2013
Absolutely fantastic!

There is only one small details that I don't like: the indicator icons (wi-fi, battery, volume ecc) with elegance looks a little bit out of focus...Could you do something for this?
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~satya164 23 hours ago  Hobbyist General Artist
Hmm... may be you can try incresing the font size, which will increase the icon sizes too, making them sharper!
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~ksemeks Apr 10, 2013
Hey, how can I change the workspace background? I don't know if it's supposed to be like that, but mine is just black. :S
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~satya164 Apr 17, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Screenshot?
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~ksemeks Apr 18, 2013
[link]
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