I was getting a bit tired of the old grey gradients of the default Gnome3 theme in Fedora 16 (Adwaita) so I poked around and found that there is a hacked Adwaita Dark theme that uses the color scheme you see in a couple of multimedia apps in regular Adwaita for all the desktop (basically, turns everything dark).
You can download it from this website.
It looks pretty spiffy, but it has a small drawback: if you’re using Nautilus icons on the desktop (which is not the default in Gnome3) the icon names have a very dark text. This was probably overlooked because the original author wasn’t using them.
Here is the easy fix: go to your Adwaita Dark theme’s gtk-3.0 folder (probably ~/.themes/Adwaita Dark/ ) and edit gnome-applications.css with your favorite text editor and change the .nautilus-desktop.nautilus-canvas-item selector like this:
.nautilus-desktop.nautilus-canvas-item { /* Was Originally: * color: @theme_bg_color; */ /* Fixed version: */ color: @theme_text_color; /* End of the fix */ text-shadow:1 1 black; }
Yes, it’s really that easy: one line of CSS!
The theme should update in realtime. If it doesn’t try changing it and back, or logging out. Enjoy!
Thanks a billion! I tried fixing this on my own for about an hour and it just wouldn’t work!
I changed the theme to another one and reloaded gnome-shell, and that updated the colors on the desktop! But when I tried it with Adwaita Dark for some reason it wouldn’t work. But logging out and in again did do the trick. Thanks again!