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Ubuntu is just completely confusing atm. It's a beta, so I can expect that. Generally it works fine for me, except that the themes that works fine in Arch on the same version of GTK3/Unico doesn't seem to work the same way in Ubuntu. If I try to patch my Zukitwo theme to work somewhat better in the new Ubuntu I loose border-radius and some hover effects in the theme on Arch. Are the Ubuntu devs messing with GTK3 by adding their own patches or something? I can't make a universal gtk3 theme if that's the case. Expect an update on Zukitwo and Zukini for other distros around the time when Gnome 3.4 is released. But if Ubuntu stays the same I suppose I need to abandon support for Ubuntu. :o

Btw, Unity still is pretty bad and not something that I like using. The only thing I like about it is their default design. Gnome looks really amateurish compared to it. Gnome-shell just feels snappier and better. (It also still have one design advantage - anti-aliased rounded window borders.) :p

Update: I'm waiting for Gnome 3.4 to be added to ArchLinux stable Extra repo before I update my themes. I don't use Testing repos. It also seems that Ubuntu isn't that confussling any longer. Everything will probably work fine.
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beta992 Featured By Owner Apr 23, 2012
Archlinux has Gnome 3.4 in the extra repo today.
Could you please upload your new themes? :D

Thanks for your work!
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batil Featured By Owner Apr 13, 2012
i am on archlinux and i also have the problem, that i loose border-radius with gnome 3.4. i think it is because of gnome and not ubuntu.
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batil Featured By Owner Apr 13, 2012
edit: i installed the last unico engine [link] and now it works. maybe ubuntu uses the old[stable?] version.
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giantspeck Featured By Owner Apr 6, 2012
Trying to theme Ubuntu 12.04 is infuriating. I think the only thing more annoying than every single theme breaking (save for Adwaita Cupertino and Orion) is the fact that it's impossible to theme the Gnome Classic panel correctly. If you select a custom background for the panel, it doesn't apply that background to the panel applets. I've tried all kinds of workarounds, but the applet background remains static. :(
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itsjustarumour Featured By Owner Mar 29, 2012
First of all, thanks for all your work on Zukitwo, and glad to see a new updated version is on the way.

I use Fedora 16_x64, and (in my experience) Zukitwo always looks better on Fedora than on Ubuntu. I haven't analysed it in detail, but I know what you mean, it does seem that Ubuntu do do some "weird" things to GTK3. Strangely, even Zukitwo on Mint 12 looks better than on Ubuntu.
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k3ttc4r Featured By Owner Mar 28, 2012
Ubuntu (and Debian, for that matter) has been known to patch the living shit out of their software packages. It's really quite frustrating sometimes.
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IzzuThug Featured By Owner Mar 27, 2012
I definitely prefer the Gnome3 interface over the Unity interface. It is so much snappier and to me works better than Unity in terms of bugs.
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kumaraatish Featured By Owner Mar 27, 2012
ahh... saw your profile... arch?
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kumaraatish Featured By Owner Mar 27, 2012
what distro do you guys use then? i like gnome shell, but i find that ubuntu does not play nice with it. and since I have nvidia (and do cuda programming), i dare not fumble with fedora
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half-left Featured By Owner Mar 27, 2012  Hobbyist Interface Designer
Yep, I've been saying this for a long time and why I don't support Ubuntu or use the unico engine. They do at their own patches and shoehorn it into what they want, which my break upstream. Unico is just a bad idea because it goes back to GTK2 syntax, where GTK3 tries to get away from that syntax since CSS is a lot easier.

I asked devs to make GTK3 fully CSS and drop the GTK syntax. I want GTK3 pretty much like gnome-shell.css with the same feature set but it's not easy to implement, apparently.
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lassekongo83 Featured By Owner Mar 27, 2012
It's pretty bad that they do that. Bad behavior that reminds me of web developers and Microsoft's old days with IE6. Not following standards and doing their own thing.

Too bad the Adwaita engine is so amateurish and limited compared to the Unico engine, otherwise I would've used it. :(
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half-left Featured By Owner Mar 27, 2012  Hobbyist Interface Designer
Well Adwaita is only limited by the CSS features they haven't put in and I don't think I would have done any themes if it wasn't for CSS syntax, hence why I don't touch Unico or GTK2.

GTK3 supposed to move forward not back and CSS can attract a lot more people, especially web devs, though some of the css syntax in gnome-shell isn't css standing, like the gradient syntax but it's easy nether the less.
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