http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9190/
You should be able to pick a color of your own likening so that you can choose blue, green, yellow, white, orange, black, gray, purple, teal, pink or whatever you like.

Check this awesome artwork that I made!
* http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/317/coloredthemeyz9.png
* http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7682/colortheme2ls1.png
* Steel
* Rainbow


From idea #9139 (merged):

Currently the theming is all over the place and changing one place does not affect any other. Although that kind of tweakability is great, most users just want different default colors. (pink, blue, brown, black)

What we should be having:
A: wallpaper - changes every release
B: color-theme - human (easily configurable by user!)
C: splash-canvas - human (we need to create this)
D: gtk-engine - clearlooks with B as default colors
E: kde-engine - oxygen with B as default colors
F: icon-theme - tango with color-filter using B

From these we could generate:
- grub-config using A, B
- bootsplash using A, B, C
- gdm-theme using A, B, C, D, F
- kdm-theme using A, B, C, E, F
- gnome-splash using B, C, F
- kde-splash using B, C, F

This way the most important customization people want, COLORS, will affect everything and keep it all one-look-one-feel. From boot to desktop.

Secondly, the art guys can create new engines, splash-canvas and wallpapers. All the specific appearance settings should be hidden under some 'advanced' button. By default, people change their 'engine', 'icon-theme' or 'colors' .. and this should affect everything from boot-to-finish.

Off course we need some magic unlock-button that turns your settings into system defaults.


I think it's also important to use the color scheme.

If this becomes a feature, any user could have a pink/red/black/blue Ubuntu just by changing the color pallete at the preferences window.

[1254 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #9190


[17 votes] Solution #2: Make the SVG icon colors change to match the theme


]]> en-us Wed, 28 May 2008 17:07:37 +0000 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:43 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9190/
Alot of people have been asking for this and I think it is a fantastic idea. It would be very easy to implement and would be incredibly appealing to Windows refugees and everyday users.

By the way, great artwork Eldmannen!]]> Wed, 28 May 2008 20:08:17 +0000 Wed, 28 May 2008 20:32:38 +0000 Go to System->Preferences->Appearance. Click Human-Murrie, then Customize. Go to the Colors tab and change Selected Items and it will change your window color!
I give it +1 to make it easier to get to.]]> Wed, 28 May 2008 20:46:28 +0000 That only lets you change window background color, it doesn't let you change color of the titlebar.]]> Wed, 28 May 2008 20:49:15 +0000 Wed, 28 May 2008 21:21:48 +0000 Wed, 28 May 2008 21:22:10 +0000 Even after I change theme to Human-Murrine, I am unable to find any setting to change the title bar.
I don't think that it is possible.]]> Wed, 28 May 2008 21:47:07 +0000 Wed, 28 May 2008 23:14:38 +0000 No it does not. Try for yourself.]]> Wed, 28 May 2008 23:18:42 +0000
Wold be great to have this one.
One more thing: theme should be setup as an optional step in the installation or when adding a new user.]]> Wed, 28 May 2008 23:43:57 +0000
Even if this feature did work as intended, it is certainly not as usable or attractive as having a straightforward choice of colors straight from the "Appearance" window.

For that reason, I still stand by my +1.]]> Wed, 28 May 2008 23:46:18 +0000 Oh, you're right.
It is buggy. Now after I tried again, it worked.]]> Thu, 29 May 2008 00:02:02 +0000 Thu, 29 May 2008 17:05:35 +0000
Not sure why this was done as it was marked a duplicate anyways. I haven't seen this done before.

The merged idea is a bit confusing to me.]]> Thu, 29 May 2008 20:21:48 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5238/]]> Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:03:52 +0000 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:56:36 +0000 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:35:44 +0000
1) System -> Preferences -> Appearance.
2) Ensure you are on the "Theme" tab.
3) Click the "Customize" button.
4) Controls tab: Choose whatever you want, I use Clearlooks myself.
5) Colors tab: Change the "Selected items" color to something of your choosing.
***NOW FOR THE THE CRUCIAL STEP***
6) Window Border tab: Select a random border, then select Human again.

At this point, you'll find your window borders change to the "Selected items" color you just set.

Note: There are only certain GTK Controls that will let you select a customized color, and not all borders will change color to match your selection. If your current controls/border don't behave this way, select another theme. Though Clearlooks/Human is a good attractive selection in my opinion.]]> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:50:27 +0000 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:53:42 +0000 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:55:18 +0000 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:18:36 +0000
The brown ubuntu color does not normally appeal to users.]]> Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:56:00 +0000 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:24:56 +0000
I sent to gnome-color-chooser developer some Python converters would allow to convert .basecolorpalette (Irix) and .kcsrc (KDE) to .gnomecc (Gnome) colour schemes. Please check for some at gnome-look.org

The only problem may happen is if the theme you're using is not 100% compatible with the colour scheme featuring - some ones are more compatible than others, which seems theme developers could be tuned on fixing them in next versions...]]> Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:01:00 +0000
+1

There is the GNOME Color Chooser that sort do this too. But it is not complete as this idea proposal. But it is a good app to change GNOME colors.]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:31:32 +0000 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:32:33 +0000 sudo apt-get install blubuntu-theme
sudo sh -c "for i in \`find /usr/share/icons/Human -type f -name '*.png'\`; do convert \$i -recolor '0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0' \$i ; done;"

to revert:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall human-icon-theme]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:29:34 +0000
Appearance Preferences --> Customize... --> Colors tab --> Selected items background button]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:37:09 +0000 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:54:53 +0000
Appearance Preferences > Customize > Colors > Selected items

That will make the title bars and other colored highlights change.

As for making the icons match the theme color, we should take advantage of the flexibility of SVG. Here is an example of some modified Human icons that automatically match your desktop's theme using Firefox's CSS2 colors:

http://endolith.com/svgiconcolors/icontest.html

The "base color" is derived directly from your system's "Selected items" color, and the desktop background color of the little computer icon is derived directly from your real desktop's background color.]]> Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:45:39 +0000