About:
In Soviet Russia... is a theme inspired by the /. influx of these sayings.

Author:
Mike Duncan [contact developer]

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8.43/10.00 (3 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.randomtask.net/?mod=2
Tar/GZ:
http://download.freshmeat.net/[..]vietrussia/insovietrussia-default.tar.gz

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[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		Freely Distributable
[Topic]		Desktop Environment :: Theme :: Computers, Desktop Environment :: Theme :: Misc, Desktop Environment :: Window Managers :: Window Maker, Desktop Environment :: Window Managers :: Window Maker :: Themes

Dependencies: [change]
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 Branches

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 Comments

[»] So, who's in the mood for grey?
by Marcus - Sep 19th 2003 17:23:45

As a SlashDot reader, I just had to look at this theme.

There's not much to be said about the background. It's
grey, and it has an "In Soviet Russia" joke and a
Russian hammer-and-sickle design in the corner.
Okay, fine, I get the joke.

Now, I initially assumed that there would be a "Soviet
Russia" joke, and that this joke would represent 99% of
the effort which was put into the theme. In at least one
sense, this may be correct. The joke and design were
added to the background cleanly -- no fringe, no
ugliness.

The rest of the theme seems to be simple -- just grey
and white diagonal gradients. Those gradients actually
look pretty good, though. Almost exactly like
SteelBlueSilk without the blue (perhaps there's a
reason for this? :)

The menu has a similar gradient. It looks okay, though
the white text near the bottom right corner (which is
also white) gets a bit hard to read. I do like the choice
of fonts. Thank you for choosing a decent sized default
font rather than the itty-bitty fonts which most themes
seem to use (10 point? smaller?) Now if you would
only increase the size of the default titlebar font...

Frankly, I don't like grey, and this theme has a lot of it.
If you're looking for a "steely" theme, though, this one
pretty much does the job. It looks clean, it has a nice
medium contrast level which is easy on the eyes, and
the default fonts are okay. Plus it uses small image
files (lots of one color -- guess which one?) It's actually
a fairly well put-together theme. Too bad it's so dang
_grey_.

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