Dorian 3.14

Dorian is a full-featured deep dark theme for GTK+ 3.14 by killhellokitty.

It is my theme of choice for distros with GTK+ 3.14 up to 3.18 (e.g. Debian jessie, Ubuntu 15.10 and 16.04). Subsequent themes by killhellokitty such as Dorian Flat 3.16 and DeLorean Dark 3.18 are a bit more light coloured, which makes them less suitable for long hours at the screen. However, if you already run GTK+ 3.20, you should ditch Dorian and use the Darkest variant of Candra-Themes-3.20 or Cloak-3.20-dark-blue.

On this repo I publish some small tweaks I made to Dorian. You can check the modifications list (changelog) by looking at Git commits.

If you use Dorian or some other dark theme, you might want to take a look at my Tips for an all dark desktop interface.

Included themes

• Gtk3 & Gtk2
• Metacity
• Gnome-Shell
• Cinnamon Shell with Nemo
• Xfwm4
• Xfce-Notify
• Openbox-3
• Google Chrome / Chromium
• Firefox
• Thunderbird
• Unity
• Ubuntu Software-Center
• MATE

Requirements

• GTK+ 3 >= 3.14

• GTK+ 2 >= 2.24

• gnome-themes-standard >= 3.14

• pixbuf-engine or the gtk(2)-engines package gtk-engine-murrine

    sudo apt install gnome-themes-standard gtk2-engines-pixbuf gtk2-engines-murrine
  

Installation

Download the zip package for this repo. Unzip the archive, and copy the Dorian folder to /usr/share/themes/ for system-wide installation, or to ~/.themes/ for individual user installation.

Firefox and Thunderbird

This theme contains a set of patches to make Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird work better with dark themes. You can install them through a symlink on your profile folders.

cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/<your profile>
rm -r chrome ; ln -s /usr/share/themes/Dorian-3.14/firefox/chrome

cd .thunderbird/<your profile>
rm -r chrome ; ln -s /usr/share/themes/Dorian-3.14/thunderbird/chrome

Chromium

Drag and drop dorian-chromium.crx onto Chromium browser and choose to apply theme.

Ubuntu

1. Open Dorian-3.14/gtk3.0/gtk-contained.css
2. Scroll down to the bottom of the document and check that unity.css and ubuntu_styles.css are uncommented.
3. Use Unity Tweak Tool to choose Dorian theme.

Ubuntu Software Center

1. Backup the original folder and name it software-center.backup.

    sudo cp -a /usr/share/software-center /usr/share/software-center.backup
   

2. Install. This assumes the Dorian-3.14 theme is installed to /usr/share/themes.

    sudo cp /usr/share/themes/Dorian-3.14/ubuntu-software-center/softwarecenter.css /usr/share/software-center/ui/gtk3/css/softwarecenter.css && sudo cp /usr/share/themes/Dorian-3.14/ubuntu-software-center/stipple.png /usr/share/software-center/ui/gtk3/art/stipple.png
   

3. Start/Restart software-center.

4. To revert changes.

    sudo rm -r /usr/share/software-center && sudo mv /usr/share/software-center.backup /usr/share/software-center
   

Qt 5 integration

If you run Qt 5 software you can make it use Dorian theme.

1. Install qt5ct

   1.1 On Ubuntu you can use hda-me PPA.

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hda-me/qt5ct
    sudo apt update && sudo apt install qt5ct
   

   1.2 On Debian you can compile it from mati75/qt5ct repo.

2. Add export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct as a new line into ~/.profile.*

3. Symlink qt5ct configuration:

    cd ~/.config
    ln -s /usr/share/themes/Dorian-3.14/qt5ct
   

4. Restart X server. For instance, logout and login.

* In LXDE there is a hardcoded assignment in lxsession that prevents you from setting QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME. The only workaround for now is to delete the assignment in lxsession code and recompile it. On Debian and derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu) you can do the following:

sudo apt install build-essential fakeroot devscripts equivs lintian
apt-get source lxsession
sudo mk-build-deps -i -r lxsession
cd lxsession-0.5.2

Edit lxsession/environement.vala. Go to the end of the file and delete the line Environment.set_variable("QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME", "lxqt", true);

fakeroot debian/rules binary
sudo dpkg -i ../lxsession_0.5.2-0ubuntu3_<your arch>.deb

License and authorship

Dorian 3.14 theme licensed under GNU GPL v3 by killhellokitty. Some tweaks by dllud.

Donations

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