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First the picture:



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As you can see in the image, the colors used for the icons and the words Applications and Places (In spanish in this case) have a different background dark gray color than the rest of the panel. Also the icons look rather bigger in that panel. Now my questions are:




  1. Can the background colors be customized so they look the same all the way through the panel.


  2. Can the icons be somehow minimized a little so they don't look strange (bigger actually)


  3. How to edit the way to add icons to the panel. I have to actually hold the ALT key and right click on it to show the context menu which shows me the option to add something. That extra key press is not friendly at all.




In this particular case I am trying to help an older man start in Ubuntu. Unity is too much for him but Gnome is friendlier for him (Learning curve is not the best for older people.. specially 68+ year old people).


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How to get back a "GNOME 2 look and feel" in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot



1. Install "GNOME Classic" session



sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback


You now get the possibility to choose the "GNOME Classic" session when you log in, but there are some problems with this session:




  • The top panel's height and its icons are too large

  • The panel background is inconsistent



GNOME Classic:

orig



With the fixes below:

fixed



After turning sound and bluetooth off and on again:

fixed-compacticons



The fixes also work for the Radiance theme:

fixed-compacticons-radiancetheme



2. Reduce the size of the icons to 16 pixels



This will also reduce the height of the top panel from 30 to 24 pixels.



2a. Create folder for config files:



mkdir ~/.config/gtk-3.0


2b. Create or edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and add this:



[Settings]

gtk-icon-sizes = panel-menu=16,16:gtk-large-toolbar=16,16


3. Fix the panel background



Note: Instead of the following solution, the background can also be fixed by using:

(Win-)Alt-rightclick on panel -> Properties -> Background -> Solid color



3a. Create or edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and add this:



/* Fallback Mode Panel */

/* Fix background color (needed in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot). */

/* Based on /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/apps/gnome-panel.css. */



PanelWidget,

PanelApplet,

PanelToplevel {

    background-color: @dark_bg_color;

    background-image: none;

}



.gnome-panel-menu-bar,

PanelApplet > GtkMenuBar.menubar,

PanelApplet > GtkMenuBar.menubar.menuitem,

PanelMenuBar.menubar,

PanelMenuBar.menubar.menuitem {

    background-color: @dark_bg_color;

    background-image: none;

}



PanelAppletFrame {

    background-color: @dark_bg_color;

    background-image: none;

}


At this point, you should log out and in again using the "GNOME Classic" session in order to see the changes.



4. Further panel configuration



Use (Win-)Alt-middleclick-drag and (Win-)Alt-rightclick to configure the panel further.



Note that the panel items snap to the left/center/right of the panel, so they might need to be dragged some distance before they move at all.



Launchers can easily be added by dragging items directly from the Applications menu to the panel.



5. Fix icon spacing



There seems to be a bug which causes excessive spacing between the icons in the notification area tray:



fixed



An easy fix is to change the icons back and forth, e.g. muting/unmuting the sound and disabling/enabling bluetooth. This solution is unfortunately only temporary and must be performed again after each login.



fixed-compacticons



Final remarks



Make a note for future reference that you just added two config files in:



~/.config/gtk-3.0/


This is nice to know in case the config files mess things up with later Ubuntu releases and need to be removed again.



Results



Before:



After:



See also




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