Help customize ion desktop

I am trying to create a comfortable environment with the ion window manager, I am looking for something that resembles this:
I am having trouble with the colors, I would like to minimize the amount of hand-tweaking if possible. I dont want to roll my own themes and scripts if I can avoid it, but I need a few clues to help me make things look the way I want.
The first priority is clarity, I must be able to see all the widjets and they must be usable. I want the colors to be dark and easy on the eyes, too many bright colors make my head hurt after being on the computer for too long. I like the color scheme in the screenshot alot except for the blue, it could be replaced with a shade of red or green and I would still be happy.
So I am needing some things to make the colors the way I like, I need suggestions for these components which fit this dark color scheme relatively closely:
GTK theme/engine
ion style
KDE themes
.Xdefaults (with the option to change that blue color to something else)
most of my googling gives me themes which have decent colors but also have distracting eye candy, I am not looking for glossy surfaces, checkered backgrounds, rounded buttons, matrix-style bright text, but most dark colored themes seems to have stuff like that in them. So if any of you can suggest which themes I should track down to get a look that resembles this screen shot (I dont care about the gkrellm parts), I would appreciate it very much.
And while I'm at it, is there a good place to go to look at more ion screenies? I am all about finding some more ways to reduce eye strain.

iphitus actually has a nice setup - you can look for his screenshots in the screenshot thread
UnWorldly wrote:I heard that wmii actually takes more work to manage windows, kids told me that it was easier just to use fluxbox or something rather than speciy how all the windows should behave and stuff. I chose ion because I thought it would allow me to pay less attention to my window management and more to the stuff I am messing with, I kept getting told that wmii reqires one to work harder on managing windows which is what I am trying to avoid.
That stuff was removed in wmii-2... and actually you didn't have to do anything if you didn't want to - it has default layouts now... so you can't really do anything crazy

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