21
Feb
10

Edit your AWN theme to get the perfect dock

I admit, people have varied tastes and choices. But I guess this is a setting which most users will like.

I had recently come across this thread on Ubuntuforums, and it featured a really beautiful dock designed by Tipped OuT. The thing which I loved about the dock was it had the perfect colour combination. It was grey-ish without being too grey or white-ish without being too white. Hence, even if you have a completely white/very bright coloured wallpaper, the dock will still stay, lets say ‘in focus’.

But the problem with the dock is that it has sharp edges to it, which I’m not really a fan of. I like the classy rounded edges to a dock. Take a look at how the theme looks on my desktop.

And this is how the default AWN theme looks (with the 3D effect):

If you look closely, you’ll find that the second image has a better polish to the dock, but the colour isnt exactly what I’d call breathtaking.

Since I cant force the developer into producing a theme of my choice, what I did was replicate the exact colours and effects to resemble this new dock theme which is near-perfect, the default AWN theme.

(Of course you’ll need AWN installed. If you dont have it installed, you should click here for a guided installation procedure for AWN)

I have for your benefit, made an AWN theme package (with a few tweaks of course) which resembles this dock but has rounded edges.

The modified AWN theme can be downloaded from here :

Modified_Theme.tgz

After downloading the file, open the AWN Manager and install the theme (click on Add and simply locate the file you have just downloaded and Apply the theme):

After applying the theme, it should look like this:

Do let me know how you like it.

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(Wallpaper used is from www.hdwallpapers.net)


7 Responses to “Edit your AWN theme to get the perfect dock”


  1. April 20, 2010 at 7:46 pm

    hi there,,,

    i would like to ask something,,
    how to change the icon startup on the top-left panel??

    thanks,,

    rgds..

  2. 3 roddersg
    May 15, 2010 at 11:27 pm

    Great work.
    Somehow when I install it to AWN v0.40 it says “incomplete theme”. Any ideas?

    • May 16, 2010 at 6:29 am

      unfortunately this theme is for the older versions of AWN. i edited it when 0.3x was the latest version. 0.4 has undergone a lot of changes and as a result many of my older awn themes no longer work on it. the solution would be to install awn repositories and downgrade to an older version. but i dont think its worth all that trouble though. you can of course use the files used in this theme to make a dock theme for 0.4.

  3. October 20, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    the link is expired i presume


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