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An Emacs color theme that integrates well with Ubuntu's Radiance

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I've never really liked Ambiance, mostly because of the garish orange default and huge fonts and icons that come default. This seems to be the default for all Linux desktops for some reason I can't understand...huge panels in GNOME and Xfce(I've never used KDE), huge icons, and large default texts.

Elegant Gnome[1] is a much, much saner and better theme IMO. Beautiful default font (Droid Sans+Droid Sans Mono), darker/more tastefully muted colors, Elegant-Aw0ken icons built off of Aw0ken[2] icons and the original Token[3] Icon Set by ~brsev. Also, it is a much more complete theme as compared to most themes for GTK. Full support for icons, GDM, and lots of edgecases. Really looks like the pinnacle of theming so far on Linux.

ElementaryOS[4] is a fork of Ubuntu that has spawned a lot of projects like Dexter, Nautilus Elementary, and Postler. Good to see more effort being spent on better UX and polish in Linux. I agree that Ubuntu/Canonical has come a long way since the days I was using Dapper on the desktop, but the paper still has to be pushed.

I personally use a mixture of Elegant Gnome when I use Gnome and a custom Zenburn theme with Xmonad.

Great theme, I'll recommend to friends of mine who use the default theme.

[1]: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Elegant+Gnome+Pack?co...

[2]: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/AwOken+-+Awesome+Toke...

[3]: http://brsev.deviantart.com/art/Token-128429570

Thanks!

I use Radiance now but used Ambiance before. I agree that the fonts are too big by default. I have a high dpi screen so I have to set everything up the way I like it anyway.

I used xmonad before and it's awesome but I got a bit tired of constantly fiddling with settings so I try to stick with the "defaults" as much as possible.

I also really like the new defaullt font in Maverick and the monospace one incoming with Natty. I agree that they have a lot to do but I think I like where they're going.

[4]: http://elementaryos.org/ (I presume)

Yes, thank you. In my efforts to properly cite and reference things for fellow readers, I sometimes forget a citation. 'Appreciate it, Mark.

My version[1] of wombat[2] is in the next version of emacs, if anyone likes that color scheme. It's dark, so I don't know how well it fits with Ambiance, but I thought I'd plug it here anyway...

edit: Oh, and very nice theme, by the way! I used a similar one before when I was in a light theme phase, will save this one in case I flip again.

[1]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=23adf1...

[2]: http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wom...

Thanks! I used Wombat a lot when I used Ambiance. I'm rebuilding Emacs from git to check your version out.

It's funny that I haven't used Visual Studio for real work in years, but starting with it in college means that there is One True Highlighting scheme as far as I'm concerned: white background, black text, keywords are blue, constants (including strings) are red, and comments are green. Using anything else feels like sleeping in someone else's bed.

That's surprisingly nice. I'd love a dark theme to match.

Thanks!

I've used Ambiance before and always dark color-themes with it like Wombat and Zenburn. I'm having a break with lighter themes recently. I guess when I switch again I'll make a darker one. It doesn't make sense for me to make a dark one when and not use it :) When the new Ubuntu release lands, it should come with a new default dark theme for gedit. That could prove to be a nice inspiration for a similar Emacs theme.

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