Re: Depressingly black top panel

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

On 06/14/2011 03:31 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> On 2011-06-14 09:19, Frederic Muller wrote:
> > On 06/13/2011 11:45 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> > > Also I'm looking for a way to change the depressing
> > > grey-on-black of the panel and menus with a fresh black-on-grey
> > > look. Can I change the colours somehow?
> >
> > Not sure what you mean but for theme you have an extension as well,
> > also gnome-tweak-tool and you can find quite some theme on
> > deviantart:
> > http://gnome-shell.deviantart.com/gallery/28081982
> > Again I use the default theme so i wouldn't know much about it.
>
> Too, bad, gnome-tweak-tool is uninstallable under Debian
> currently. I didn't thought that the black menu would annoy
> me, because I liked it on screen shots - to my own surprise it's
> really depressing.
>
> How can I change the top panel colour from black to grey or white?

Thinking about it, it should be in the CSS styling of the default theme. 
You can find a previous discussion about customizing GNOME 3 theme here 
(with a link to an good reference):
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2011-May/msg00002.html

Fred