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Gtk theme engines for win32

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Some GTK+ theme engines I compiled using mingw for windows.

Contents of the archive

libaurora-1.3.dll
libcandido-0.9.1.dll
libclearlooks-2.13.0.dll
libcrux-engine-2.13.0.dll
libglide-2.13.0.dll
libhcengine-2.13.0.dll
libindustrial-2.13.0.dll
libmist-2.13.0.dll
libmurrine-0.53.1.dll
libredmond95-2.13.0.dll
libsmooth-2.13.0.dll
libthinice-2.13.0.dll

I was compiling these theme engines for GIMP. If you want to use these theme engines on your GIMP installation, please follow these steps

  1. Navigate to your GIMP installation direction, for example C:\Somedir\GIMP
  2. Then open the folder lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\engines in the GIMP installation folder (this is C:\Somedir\GIMP\lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\engines if we use the path from no.1) and extract the dll’s from above package into this folder
  3. Find some GTK themes, then extract the contents into the folder share\themes in your GIMP installation folder (this would be C:\Somedir\GIMP\share\themes). Links: gnome-look, art.gnome.org.
  4. Download gtk2_prefs-0.4.1.bin-win32.zip from Alex Shaduri’s GTK page. Find the link at next bottom of the page. Extract the gtk2_prefs.exe into bin folder under your GIMP installation directory. Then run the executable.
  5. You’ll get a window just like the screenshots below. In the left there is the list of themes you have installed in step 3 above. Choose the theme you like, click the Apply for all users checkbox then click the OK button.
  6. Then run your GIMP executable. Your GIMP look should have changed like the theme your choose before.

Screenshots

astonished.jpg
Theme link

aurora.jpg
Theme link, the downloaded package contains both the theme engine and the GTK theme rc’s. You already have the compiled theme engine if you use the engines from the zip file I uploaded above.

candido-calm.jpg
Theme link

creamy-black-panel.jpg
Theme link

foresight.jpg
Theme link

murrina-cappuccino.jpg
Theme link, look for the MurrinaThemePack below the page

murrinagrassancient.jpg
Theme link

murrina-linsta.jpg
Theme link

murrinaverdeolivo.jpg
Theme link

Written by char101

December 2, 2007 at 8:05 am

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  1. Hi

    Thank You for building – I was looking for that…

    Gimp looks so much better now ;-)

    nw42

    December 12, 2007 at 5:25 pm

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  2. thank you, now GimPhoto can be used with more themes ;)

    zenith

    December 16, 2007 at 6:19 am

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  3. Excellent! Quick question: did you have to hack the theme engines to get them to build for Windows? In particular, the aurora engine … there’s a new release now that looks even better than before. I was considering building this myself, but wasn’t sure if it needed any modifications.

    Daniel Kasak

    January 15, 2008 at 12:25 am

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  4. @Daniel

    No modification needed, except for one or two lines which cause the compilation to fail, which I don’t remember which line. But compiling these themes is relatively easy.

    char101

    January 15, 2008 at 1:18 am

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  5. hi, thanks for this great artical, i’m having issues with the theme only half showing, its like .dll are missing i found a work around by using gimpoto’s files from the bin and themes and that worked for some reason.

    any idea why this is?

    gimper

    March 23, 2008 at 7:57 am

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  6. Probably because incompatible GTK version. Above dlls was compiled with GTK 2.12. Or maybe the theme requires newer version of the theme engine.

    char101

    March 23, 2008 at 9:15 am

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  7. sweet, ithey can be loaded dynamically in a pyGtk app

    Stefano

    April 2, 2009 at 10:37 am

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