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NeonAfterglo Ver. 1.1 for Cinnamon 1.8

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I now run Linux as my primary OS and as of yore, got into skinning / theming for reasons of self-preservation. This theme is inspired by Android's Icecream Sandwich and Jellybean and is a mod and enhancement of an existing theme by someone else, which in turn is a mod of yet another theme by another person. Ain't that always the way? The theme I modified is DarkShuffle and my mods are as follows:

- changed the default font
- added the top border to the panel
- added Cinnamon 1.8 Desklet support
- added a Metacity that matched the theme

That last is something of a sore point with me: everyone and his dog does Cinnamon themes but VERY FEW do a matching Metacity. Guys (and girls), your job is only HALF DONE if you haven't done that. A windowing theme is essential for completeness. In my case I took an existing Metacity, merged it with elements from another one and then completely redesigned and rebuilt all the control widgets and how they reacted to the mouse. That took quite a bit of work because unlike many another Metacity that looks pretty but is completely useless on a practical level, I wanted mine to actually BE usable. I mean, no differentiation between the appearance of the window control buttons and their various functions? Really?? Get A Grip!

So with the Metacity built, NOW the theme is done.

NOTE:

The author of Darkshuffle did a significant update so my enhancement moves forward in lockstep.

Enjoy!
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