Human Compact Gnome Theme
Comparison
Move your mouse over the image to see the difference of a save dialog between Ubuntu’s 8.04 Human, and Human Compact. Buttons and spacing is much smaller which results in a lot more free space for the actual content. See for yourself:
Here are some other screenshots. The eclipse window uses 800×480 resolution, which is the same as the eee pc has.
Download and Installation
- Save the file HumanCompact.tar.bz2 to your computer.
- Open the gnome’s appearence dialog with System > Preferences > Appearance.
- Drag and drop the downloaded file into the Theme tab of the appearance dialog.
- Choose “Apply new theme” in the popup dialog.
Most changes will occur immediately, but for e.g. the icon sizes it is best to log out and log in again. When you change the theme, you can get the Human Compact theme back by clicking on Customize, and then selecting Human Compact.
Any question, praise or flames? please post them!
May 14th, 2008 at 12:18 am
this is what i want… thanks a lot martin…
one more karma for you
May 14th, 2008 at 10:42 am
That will be the first thing I’ll install after I’ll upgrade Ubuntu!
Thanks!
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Hi,
is it possible to further reduce the height of the buttons at the bottom of the dialogs?
May 28th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Hi peter, I dont think so. You can try to disable the button icons, but I have tried this and the buttons did not get any smaller.
June 9th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Excellent work, thank you. I would suggest keeping the large toolbar buttons in the gtkrc file to 24,24 as 16,16 might look too small on some displays. Cheers
June 14th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Nice work.
Any chance of getting this into the repository’s so it automatically update’s?
Small bug: In installing/removing programs, I installed a program and saw the progress bar have a blue color.
June 18th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Hi geOffrey, I am trying for a while now to get this into the Ubuntu release, but to no avail. The best thing probably is to vote for the idea, if enough users show that it is important to them they will eventually listen.
I dont think this is a bug of the theme, because I have just taken the default Ubuntu 8.04 theme and modified the spacings. So this either is a bug of the default theme, or maybe just because you installed with sudo, and the root user might have different theme settings than your desktop user.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Hi Martin,
Great job you’ve done here, but I find that certain elements are a little *too* compact for my taste, for example the main menus and the tabs in Firefox 3.
However, I love the effect on Save/Open dialogues and bookmark folders in FF.
I would just like a happy medium — is there any chance you could post a HOWTO on how you altered the theme, so that people can customise it precisely to their liking?
It would also allow us to edit the Human-Murrine theme which is nicer looking than plain Human.
Keep up the good work,
Laurence
June 24th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
hi martin,
i need to increase height of button: “manker”, “Picture”, “themes”, “wp”, “original”, “create folder”, “add”, etc…in http://martin.ankerl.com/2008/05/13/human-compact-gnome-theme/#
how to adjust them?
…i hope someday you’ll make gtkrc tutorial. coz i want to costumize my own themes…
thanks.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Hi! right now I am in Mykonos in Greece for holidays and enjoying the beach, but I will write a tutorial when I come back
June 25th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
happy holiday, martin…
June 26th, 2008 at 11:05 am
There’s a problem: like the problem in Firefox 3, in Nautilus the back and forward arrows are not align.
I’m using Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-19, Gnome 2.22.2
Nautilus version is the 2.22.3 (1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2 0).
The PC is a HP NX6110 notebook with Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
GREAT! compacter is better!
Why waste screenspace?
June 28th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Why waste screen space? Fitt’s law, obviously. Smaller might give you more screen real estate, but it makes your application harder to use with a mouse or touchpad. Using a GUI shouldn’t be a aiming excercise.
In my opinion more spacing is better for asthetics, too. Anyway, it’s still quite nice for low-res displays, but in some parts your themes overdo it…