Azurra framework released, new themes and what's planned

 Azurra Framework

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Today, the B00merang Project releases a major piece in our build infrastructure. The Azurra framework, which has been improved for the past few months is going open-source under the GPL v3. It is available on Github for public usage.

For now, it's still in alpha, missing documentation and a definitive set of scripts (the current ones are hotfixes written on the spot), but we will continue to gradually improve it as time goes on.

Impovements to the upstream Azurra framework have been merged with our themes code. This brings:

• improved support for GTK-based desktop elements (xfce4-panel, mate-panel, gnome-flashback)
• Possibility to vectorize assets in the future (via Vrender)
• Open the door to user-created themes
• Continual updates to related themes as long as Azurra is online

We also added and updated a few themes:

• tvOS 13 is now based on Azurra/watchOS and is more usable in daily usage
• iOS 13 has a new dark theme based on what was seen at WWDC 2019
• watchOS 6 has some QoL improvements
• Windows Whistler is now based on Azurra/XP Luna and supports a wider range of desktops
• Windows Longhorn Aero ported via Azurra/Windows 7
• Windows Longhorn Jade ported via Azurra/Windows 7
• Windows Longhorn Plex ported via Azurra/XP Luna
• Windows Longhorn Slate ported via Azurra/XP Luna
• Windows Vista sees some enhancements
• Windows Server 2003 now based on Azurra/Windows 95
• Windows Server 2012 now based on Azurra/Windows 8.1
• Haiku R1 Beta 1 based on Azurra/BeOS R5
• B00merang Brome, a dark theme based on B00merang Flat

Enhancements to Android, Unity 8, B00merang Dark/Glass/Green/Circle/Flat, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Solaris 10 Blueprint/CDE, Solaris 11, Fuchsia, Windows XP and more.

We expect to release the following soon:

• macOS 10.15 Catalina reusing Mojave code

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What's planned:

• Ambiance based on Azurra/Unity 8
  Right now Ambiance is OK, but starting with Ubuntu 19.04, Yaru has replaced it as the default theme. Ambiance is also quite old and was never fully ported to GTK 3.20. We're aiming at creating a new codebase that reproduces the unique appearance of this original Ubuntu theme.
• Console theme
  It's a very interesting concept: how would your desktop look like if it was just a console?
• Aero Dark based on Windows 7 Media player
  It's sleek and retro, and on our TODO list for a while.
• Brilliance theme pack
  Ever heard of RAVEfinity? They made very good themes but ran out of time to dedicate to their project. We almost did the same a few years ago, but thanks to modularisation and code reusability practices we're still here.
  
  Since we have a reliable piece of software in the Azurra framework to generate an endless amount of themes, we wanted to bring back some of the best themes RAVEfinity offered while they released themes. B00merang Brome was partly generated using this variant of the Azurra framework pipeline.

We will update the website and download pages in the coming weeks to the newest versions available.

We hope you enjoy our themes as much as we enjoy creating them!