OMG Skyrim

Nautilus-elementary is no longer maintained, so I see no reason to keep designing themes around it. One reason is also that it won't work in Vbox with guest-additions installed. (Infinite nautilus open loop bug in Meerkat.) Right now I'll just have to see if I can make some app specific changes to PCManFM while also keeping a nice design for the classic nautilus like I did in my theme Zuki. Just need to find the right names for the GTK parts in PCManFM.

My next theme will be based around Ambiance instead of Elementary. It's more bug tested than any other theme at the moment. So hopefully any bugs present in my current themes will be fixed. Also expect this emerald theme to be included in that package. Emerald is just as unmaintained as nautilus-elementary, but at least it still works and can still do things I could only dream of several years ago when I was styling XP. I'm currently also looking into the possibility of creating an installation script for my themes that should make some things easier. I can't promise that I can make something that will set the panel the way I use it. (Only if it's possible to create a script that installs gimp, gimp plugins, opens gimp, resizes and pastes the panel bg on your wallpaper of choice etc.) I also have some ideas for an Opera theme based on the Faenza icon theme.

Unity looks interesting. Unfortunately it's really not that special. The only thing I can see that has changed from gtk2 are the panels and menus which now are qt based if I'm right. KDE4 is ok, except that it's too sluggish in VirtualBox compared to Gnome and compiz. Gnome-shell still looks rather odd, but I do like the fact that they use CSS3 for themes. What I'll use depends on which of them will work the best in VirtualBox first I suppose.

As for Windows 7 it's still my main OS, mainly because of gaming. (OMG Skyrim, Battlefield 3.) I haven't even patched the files that handles themes even if I hate the default theme. (If I ever make a theme for Windows 7 I'll call it Faildowns. No pun intended.) As for now I have no tools or no motivation to work with themes for Windows. May or may not change. A simple reason why I'm not working with Windows is because I feel that I have more artistic freedom in GNU/Linux. There are already some nice usable themes for 7 by other artists that are definitive keepers in my opinion.

Just some thoughts and things happening right now.

Edit: The theme is taking so long because I'm trying to change as many things as possible. (I got PCManFM to almost look like nautilus-elementary.)