GhostBSD11-Some Ideas

[NevilleGoddard]

I thought I would write a few things about GhostBSD and the upcoming GhostBSD11 in particular and also my role in this project.
Since I cannot write any code (yet!) I think I should concentrate on what I can contribute most to GhostBSD. Since I'm the only native English speaker I should contribute more to the wiki, particularly the Handbook. I'll write a few more "how to" posts also in the forums.
GhostBSD is a great OS and there is actually not much I want changed. That's the reason I'm using it. As I've said many times before, you are all doing a great job.
One thing that needs changing I think for version 11 is the look i.e. new icons and perhaps an additional dark theme. I don't know if anyone has put any thought into this or if a new theme has already been selected. I personally think that themes and appearances of windows etc. in a desktop should be as consistent as possible. There is the Ghomix theme already which is great but I think a dark theme is also needed. I've found a dark theme called Ambiance-Blackout-Colors-16.04-1-LTS-GTK3-3-18Theme. This is a very professional looking theme that works with catfish and document viewer giving them both a dark look whereas xfce4-dusk theme didn't.
The only problem is that while testing it I discovered that in firefox, inputting text in some search fields, the text would be a light grey colour, almost invisible. This is a firefox bug.
I fixed this by creating the directory ./mozilla/firefox/xxxxxdefault/chrome/userContent.css and copying some code into the css file. Now everything is fixed.
I also found a rather attractive icon set called Vivacious-Colors-GTK-Icon-Theme-v-1.4. Perhaps these icons could be used.
Perhaps a right-click search files custom action should also be included by default.
Perhaps this is not so important but I feel that GhostBSD should look as good as it runs!
If I think of anything else I'll post it here.
Any suggestions for how I can help in other ways would also be appreciated.

Thanks
Keith

[ericbsd]

I think I would look that this for 11.1

[ericbsd]

Looking at all this it could be a good idea to move to those theme before the release.

[NevilleGoddard]

Thanks ericbsd. This is the code to fix up the unreadable input fields in some sites if this dark theme is used:

input:not(.urlbar-input):not(.textbox-input):not(.form-control):not([type='checkbox']) {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
background-color: white;
color: black;
}

#downloads-indicator-counter {
color: white;
}

textarea {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
background-color: white;
color: black;
}

select {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
background-color: white;
color: black;
}

If this is put in ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxx.default/chrome/userContent.css

this fixes the font color problem.

Alternatively the extension " Text Contrast for Dark Themes" extension seems to work well too.

[ericbsd]

I did not had that problem.

[NevilleGoddard]

Did you try it in xfce or MATE? In my xfce machine, on some websites input fields just looked white or the font colors were very light grey in firefox.

[ericbsd]

Mate 1.18

[NevilleGoddard]

It must be an xfce problem.

[ericbsd]

Is GTK3.18 themes supported​ on XFCE?

[NevilleGoddard]

I think so. In octopkg there is gtk3. The version is 3.18.8_4. The doucument viewer in xfce4 looks fine with the dark theme.