There are a lot of very nice looking GTK themes out there. My very favorite one is called Mist Deep Plastik. It's very easy on the eyes and looks great. However, because it's colors are reverse from the default themes (the background is dark and the foreground is light) some applications do some strange and wrong things:
Firefox
In firefox, most pages are OK. Unless the page designer gets tricky and plays with the CSS.. if the designer didn't take into account both the text color as well as the background color, then you might end up with text that is the same color as your background.. which is totally unreadable.
It's pretty easy to fix in firefox:
- open /usr/lib/firefox/res/html.css
On about line 60, there is the definition for body:
body { display: block; margin: 8px; }change this to :
body { background-color: white; color: black; display: block; margin: 8px; }
Open Office
I generally like my theme, but when typing in Open Office, I like the document color to always be white instead of the color of my theme. It's easily changeable in Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org -> Appearance -> Document Background