Pino - Festive Style

Recently I got a little bored with the look and feel of my interface so I decided to change it. Both the Faenza and Mint-X came as regular and dark but I just couldn't see the difference when switching between them. Sometimes the most obvious things slip beyond your attention until you finally spot it. It's for regular and dark themes; DOH!

The way I look at icon sets is to open Nautilus to see the effect inside my home folder with the new icons. I assumed the dark versions had some drop shadows, or outlines, or highlights or something. It wasn't until I happened to be looking at the system tray that I noticed the change, white fonts instead of black. A dark theme is essentially a negative of a regular one, that must include the text / background colour too, to be usable. I was getting a little bit annoyed at the Audacious and Pino icons almost blending into the panel, that has now been sorted as you see.

The Pino one is interesting in that when it updates, the Mint-X Dark theme turns it white, which kinda looks like a Christmas tree that just got a coating of snow.

I copied my Mint-X theme from /usr/share/icons on Mint 10 so it may be a slightly different theme from this link.

I have been using NuoveXT2.2 for well over a year before that, where the Pino icon turns emerald green when updated.

For the curious, that's Audacious (the music player I've pimped on numerous occasions, although I'm not convinced with their new GTKUI yet), Pino and Shutter. Shutter is an excellent screenshot application, allowing you to do some basic editing like censoring sensitive parts, shading parts to highlight other parts, or adding extra layers of pointers, text etc very easily. Pino is a GTK microblogging client, and my preferred way to use Identi.ca.