apparently i broke awmtk thinking it was broken. apparently my brain was broken because i was editing unity and running unity simplified.

libs/awmtk.lua

@@ -213,7 +213,6 @@ awmtk.style = function(parent,delta,prefix)
     new_style.inputbox = preprocess.inputbox(_new_style)
     return new_style
 end
-
 -- Default variables table
 defaults = setmetatable({},{
     __index = beautiful
@@ -236,14 +235,21 @@ defaults.shape_border_color = defaults.shape_border_color or defaults.bg_normal
 defaults.inner_margin = defaults.inner_margin or 5
 defaults.rounding = defaults.rounding or 0
 -- Generate classes variables
+local new_defaults = {}
 for _,class in pairs(classes) do
     for parameter,value in pairs(defaults) do
-        defaults[class..parameter] = (      
+        new_defaults[class..parameter] = (      
             defaults[class..parameter] or
             value 
         )
     end
 end
+for parameter,value in pairs(defaults) do
+    new_defaults[parameter] = value
+end
+defaults = setmetatable(new_defaults,{
+    __index = beautiful
+})
 --make icons look less weird
 defaults.icon_inner_margin = beautiful.icon_inner_margin or 0
 --add spacing for lists

themes/unity_simplified/theme.lua

@@ -143,6 +143,12 @@ theme.topbar_bg = {
 theme.titlebar_rounding = 6
 theme.bg_systray = "#3A3A36"
 theme.prompt_bg = theme.titlebar_bg_normal
+theme.wintitle_icon_bg_normal = theme.topbar_bg
+theme.wallpapers_icon_bg_normal = theme.topbar_bg
+theme.mailbox_icon_bg_normal = theme.topbar_bg
+theme.volume_icon_bg_normal = theme.topbar_bg
+theme.battery_icon_bg_normal = theme.topbar_bg
+theme.username_icon_bg_normal = "wtf"
 -- Generate taglist squares:
 local taglist_square_size = dpi(4)
 theme.taglist_squares_sel = theme_assets.taglist_squares_sel(