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Controls
The controls setting for a theme determines the visual appearance of windows,
panels, and applets. It also determines the visual appearance of the GNOME-com-
pliant interface items that appear on windows, panels, and applets, such as menus,
icons, and buttons. Some of the controls setting options that are available are de-
signed for special accessibility needs. You can select an option for the controls
setting in the Controls tabbed page of the Theme Details tool.
Window frame
The window frame setting for a theme determines the appearance of the frames
around windows only. You can select an option for the window frame setting in
the Window Border tabbed page of the Theme Details tool.
Icon
The icon setting for a theme determines the appearance of the icons on panels and
the desktop background. You can select an option for the icon setting in the Icons
tabbed page of the Theme Details tool.
The color settings for the desktop and applications are controlled using themes. You
can choose from a variety of preinstalled themes. Selecting a style from the list overview
applies it automatically. Details opens another dialog where you can customize the
style of single desktop elements, like window content, window borders, and icons.
Making changes and leaving the dialog by clicking Close switches the theme to Custom
Theme. Click Save Theme to save your modified theme under a custom name. The In-
ternet and other sources provide many additional themes for GNOME as .tar.gz
files. Install these with Install Theme.
Procedure 2.1 Creating a Custom Theme
The themes that are listed in the Theme Preferences tool are different combinations
of controls options, window frame options, and icon options. You can create a custom
theme that uses different combinations of options.
1 Click Computer > Control Center > Look and Feel > Theme.
2 Select a theme from the list of themes, then click Theme Details.
3 Select the controls option that you want to use in the custom theme from the list
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in the Controls tabbed page.