ClassicPlatinumStreamlined won't show up in styles

[glowinthedarkfish]

The theme won't show up in appearance-->styles. I tried putting it in /usr/share/themes/ and ~/.themes .

[mckaygerhard]

use your brain, is GTK2 only ! and currently Xfce4 is GTK3 now... mate, gnompuchaetc are GTK3.. this theme is great for me cos i compiled all in gtk2 (more lighty rather GTK3)

[dustojnikhummer]

use your brain, is GTK2 only ! and currently Xfce4 is GTK3 now... mate, gnompuchaetc are GTK3.. this theme is great for me cos i compiled all in gtk2 (more lighty rather GTK3)

Not need to be rude. Official XFCE4 documentation says nothing about GTK3 either

[TheJCW]

Update: after a quick googling, it does indeed seem that GTK2 support has been dropped from Xfce 4.16.

So, keeping in mind that I'm a noob, and could be missing something humongous; something which might be obvious to more seasoned penguineers out there, it seems to me that the following are the only options:

1. find a way to add GTK2 support back to Xfce through some patch or repository.

2. flash my Fedora Xfce install with Fedora KDE, which so far as I know still supports GTK2, and which should accept the theme and even yield a nearly identical result once the theme is fully incorporated, I'd imagine.

3. Ask the dev to update Platinum9 to GTK3 (which seems to be the best of all options for we end users),

4. find some way to convert the GTK2 assets to GTK3 ourselves (not sure how to do or even if it's possible),

5. settle with the other, less accurate macOS 9 clone themes out there, or

6. regrettably abandon the macOS clone idea altogether and just settle on exploring NsCDE.

Any thoughts from the more experienced among us out there? :-)

Thank you in advance!

-St. J

[dustojnikhummer]

Update: after a quick googling, it does indeed seem that GTK2 support has been dropped from Xfce 4.16.

So, keeping in mind that I'm a noob, and could be missing something humongous; something which might be obvious to more seasoned penguineers out there, it seems to me that the following are the only options:

1. find a way to add GTK2 support back to Xfce through some patch or repository.
2. flash my Fedora Xfce install with Fedora KDE, which so far as I know still supports GTK2, and which should accept the theme and even yield a nearly identical result once the theme is fully incorporated, I'd imagine.
3. Ask the dev to update Platinum9 to GTK3 (which seems to be the best of all options for we end users),
4. find some way to convert the GTK2 assets to GTK3 ourselves (not sure how to do or even if it's possible),
5. settle with the other, less accurate macOS 9 clone themes out there, or
6. regrettably abandon the macOS clone idea altogether and just settle on exploring NsCDE.

Any thoughts from the more experienced among us out there? :-)

Thank you in advance!

-St. J

I went through every single one of those stages myself. Shame it doesn't work with GTK3

[TheJCW]

Update: after a quick googling, it does indeed seem that GTK2 support has been dropped from Xfce 4.16.
So, keeping in mind that I'm a noob, and could be missing something humongous; something which might be obvious to more seasoned penguineers out there, it seems to me that the following are the only options:

1. find a way to add GTK2 support back to Xfce through some patch or repository.
2. flash my Fedora Xfce install with Fedora KDE, which so far as I know still supports GTK2, and which should accept the theme and even yield a nearly identical result once the theme is fully incorporated, I'd imagine.
3. Ask the dev to update Platinum9 to GTK3 (which seems to be the best of all options for we end users),
4. find some way to convert the GTK2 assets to GTK3 ourselves (not sure how to do or even if it's possible),
5. settle with the other, less accurate macOS 9 clone themes out there, or
6. regrettably abandon the macOS clone idea altogether and just settle on exploring NsCDE.

Any thoughts from the more experienced among us out there? :-)
Thank you in advance!
-St. J

I went through every single one of those stages myself. Shame it doesn't work with GTK3

After having had a chance to sleep on it (and delete my first comment, which had featured me at little worked up over this), I guess we'll just hope the theme designer is able to find a way to bring it forward. If not, I'll either go explore the question of whether or not it can be made to work in Fedora KDE, or else go see what NsCDE is all about. I also thought about skipping the OS 9 theme for an OSX 10.0 Aqua theme, which totally blew my mind when it was new in 1999 or 2000 or whatever....but guess what....that one is GTK2 as well. So, so much for that. :-(

Natively, I'm not a humongous fan of Xfce. I'm much more of a KDE kinda guy. But I went with Xfce on Manjaro and Fedora anticipating giving them the Chicago95 and Platinum 9 treatments. So, ultimately, unless I just go NsCDE, it looks like this is going to involve a wipe and fresh install.

In any case, thank you so much for your kind and consoling reply! I truly appreciate it! :-)

Cheers!