Hi, GMaq! Looking powerful! 
A theme preoccupied user must have test
Could you upload the theme file somehow without .zip compression. I can’t unzip for unknown reason…?
Edit: no worry! I’ve download the second time - a normal flight Sorry!
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Hi @cooltehno
Sure, here it is uncompressed: http://bandshed.net/files/diehard3-ardour.colors
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okk! Thanks anyway!
You are the theme Master!! Be gentle… 
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Well done. Another theme to be included upstream with Ardour, except the name perhaps.
A7
I woke up this morning,
D7/9. . .A7/b13
and Ardour was blue.
D7. . .D7/b9
'woke up this morning,
A7. . .F#7
Ardour was all blueeee…
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@x42 Thanks! And a new blues tune as well!!?
BTW the original name came from here: Die Hard 4.0 GTK theme - Gnome-look.org
I used that for a default theme way back in the day before GTK3 and then appropriated the color scheme and paraphrased the name for new GTK3 system themes I created… It is not a reference to the series of Bruce Willis movies…lol.
Feel free to change the name to whatever you like though… Just clarifying the origins.
Nah, just first two bars of a common A major blues. Minor didn’t feel appropriate for this nice theme
…will have to brainstrom about the name. Maybe derived from “gnome-look”: Dwarvenair.
That’s in line with other Ardour theme names (Ableton → Cainville, S1 → UnaStudio etc).
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That looks awesome! I’ll definitely try it
Fairyfocus or Goblingape would be my suggestions…
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Dwarfish, or Elvish, surely…?
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How about ‘mellon’… which means friend in Elvish (as any self-respecting LoTR geek would know)… and I am a friend of Ardour… 
On second thought even ‘melon’ works with with the orange vaguely canteloupe-coloured highlights… 
Maybe ‘Mellonhead’ should be the name… 
I would change two things:
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The item “midi note selected outline” - to white (more noticeable IMO):
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The transparency of the “G”-“E”-modes are more distinguishable when “G” - is filled of color, “E” - is transparent.
Edit>Preferences>Theme>Transparency:
“editable region” - move the slider to the left;
“midi frame base” - move the slider to the right
In “G”-mode we are working with “blocks” - so we don’t need clearly looking grid inside the region;
in “E”-mode we need the orientation for notes - so the grid would be good clearly looking:
it’s only my subjective workflow feelling:)
P.S. A distro-oriented theme is an interesting idea. One monolith style
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The wise master has spoken! Great ideas, I will look into it tomorrow and post an updated version. Thanks, that is exactly the sort of advice I was looking for!
Haha, if I could make my 2 main programs (both Ardour and Cinelerra) match the system theme I could die a happy man!
Suggestions from @cooltehno have been included and an updated ‘diehard2’ has been put in the first post.
With a great pleasure!))
My version of the theme name “ultra-celandine”. May be too crazy, but just my associations…
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Now that the dust has settled a bit… is it already time to include this upstream, or are there some further tweaks planned?
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Last night I got out to the studio and actively worked on a session and I wasn’t super happy with the Audio track BG (it’s determined by ‘widget gray’ I believe and needs to be a darker color for this theme)… I’m still fine tuning some changes on that but I hope to finish it this weekend and will be sure to post the final version here. Thanks for even considering it for upstream!
…May be one more tweak:
))next variants of the name: avlmafia, ultra-melon, alien-blood, alien juice, *dark blues
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ack, keep fine tuning it. We’re not in a rush to push out a new release anytime soon anyway.
I think I’m done tweaking, I have edited the first post and uploaded the latest version ‘diehard3’ with the suggestions from @cooltehno. Any changes beyond that will probably be up to the User on an individual needs basis so I think the colors theme is ready whenever you are…
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