There is one gtk2
theme that I use for gimp 2.6
, although it should work for gimp 2.8
, and that is Darkilouche
. (It will work until gimp
switches to gtk3
around the time of gimp
3.) It may not be quite as dark as the one you have in mind, but it's good and you may be able to modify it further. It was created by a while ago here and the version you want is 0.2.3, available here as well.
Needless to say, it is easy to install. Just unpack the zip and create a new folder called Darkilouche
and place in it the contents of the zip (folders labelled gtk-2.0
, .svn
and a file named Darkilouche
. Then move the Darkilouche
folder to .themes
in your home folder. Then, to test it with gimp
(substituting gimp-2.6
for your version), run:
GTK2_RC_FILES=$HOME/.themes/Darkilouche/gtk-2.0/gtkrc gimp-2.6
This command simply specifies a particular theme (gtkrc
) to use with a gtk
application, it will NOT affect your general Ubuntu theme or interfere with any other programs.
Then you can create a launcher to run gimp
like this in the future.