7:16 PM
A quick update: Ambiance and Radiance Colors theme pack, which provides Ambiance and Radiance available in 8 different colors, is now available in a PPA for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and 12.04 Precise Pangolin users. Using the PPA instead of manually installing the themes, you can stay up to date with newer versions without having to manually check for new updates. Add the PPA and install Ambiance and Radiance Colors GTK2/3 themes using the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ravefinity-project/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ambiance-colors radiance-colors
Once installed, use GNOME Tweak Tool or
Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 to switch to any of the newly installed themes.
To install Ambiance and Radiance Colors for XFCE/LXDE, instead of the last command above, use:
sudo apt-get install ambiance-colors-lxxf radiance-colors-lxxf
The themes are of course also available on
GNOME Look.
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1:43 AM
Ambiance & Radiance Colors is a theme pack that provides Ambiance and Radiance available in 8 different colors: red, orange (different from Ubuntu orange), yellow , green , blue , purple , graphite (grey) and pink.
The pack comes with GTK2/3 as well as Xfwm4 and Openbox themes and the GTK themes should work on Ubuntu 11.04 or newer (as well as other Linux distributions such as Fedora 15, etc.) while the XFCE themes should work on Ubuntu 10.10+.
Here are a few more screenshots:
There's no GNOME Shell theme yet unfortunately (if you want a complete GTK2/3/GNOME Shell Blue Ambiance theme, try
Ambiance Blue), but the Ambiance & Radiance Colors developer is working on it.
To use the themes in Ubuntu 11.04+, download the archive (see download link below), extract it and copy all the Ambiance/Radiance color folders under ~/.themes (or /usr/share/themes), then use GNOME Tweak Tool or
Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 to apply one of the new themes.
Download Ambiance & Radiance Colors | Update:
the themes are now available in a PPA
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2:56 AM
When using Ambiance (the default Ubuntu theme), Nautilus 3 has dark breadcrumbs / toolbar (and menu if you disable appmenu), white background and a gray-ish sidebar, which doesn't look too good if you ask me.
In case you're not using Ambiance, here's a screenshot:
Not exactly pretty, isn't it?
So
WarriorIng64 has modified Ambiance to use a dark sidebar for Nautilus 3 and in my opinion, it looks a lot better:
Well... what do you think?
If you want to use this modified Ambiance theme, you can
download it from HERE. Then, extract the downloaded archive and move the "Ambiance Dark Sidebar" under /usr/share/themes/. Assuming you've downloaded and extracted it in your home folder, use the command below to move it to
/usr/share/themes:
sudo mv ~/"Ambiance Dark Sidebar" /usr/share/themes/
And finally, use GNOME Tweak Tool to switch to Ambiance Dark Sidebar. You can also do this without using GNOME Tweak Tool, by using the following command:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme "Ambiance Dark Sidebar"
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11:16 PM
Ambiance Blue is a pack that includes GTK2, GTK3, GNOME Shell and Avant Window Navigator themes, especially designed for those who like the Ambiance theme style but don't like the orange or simply want to try a fresh style while keeping the overall Ambiance look.
Since the pack comes with both GTK2 and GTK3 themes, you can use Ambiance Blue in both GNOME 2 (Ubuntu 11.04 or older) as well as GNOME 3 (Ubuntu 11.10) - or other Linux distributions, but for the GTK3 theme you'll need to install Unico GTK3 engine.
Here's
Ambiance Blue GTK2 theme in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal:And
Ambiance Blue GTK2 + GTK3 + GNOME Shell theme running in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot:As you can see, Ambiance Blue window titlebar works just fine under GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot as opposed to the original Ambiance theme which at least for me, reverts to some odd-looking ancient fallback theme (but that will probably be fixed soon).
To install Ambiance Blue in Ubuntu (any version), download it, extract the archive, then extract "ambiance_blue.tar.gz" and copy the "Ambiance Blue" folder to the ~/.themes directory (if it doesn't exist, create it). Then use GNOME Tweak Tool to change the theme (it's available in the Ubuntu 11.10 repositories) for the GTK3/Gnome Shell theme or the usual Appearance Preferences for the GTK2 theme.
For old Ubuntu versions and other Linux distributions, the Ambiance Blue
DeviantArt page provides exact installation instructions (you'll need the latest Murrine and Unico, depending on which version of the theme you want to use).
Thanks to Satyajit for the tip!
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10:10 PM
Ambiance, the default Ubuntu theme, will get a dark toolbar very soon. The news comes from Andrea Cimitan who has posted a screenshot on Google+:
(The theme is not yet available in Oneiric)
If you want to use Ambiance with a dark toolbar already, you can use Ambiance Evolution, an unofficial version that already has a dark toolbar - see
THIS page for more info.
In other Oneiric news, Compiz was updated today and the modal dialogs finally look like they are supposed to for Unity 3D:
Previously, the modal dialogs had a regular window titlebar in Unity 3D.
First screenhot thanks Andrea Cimitan @
Google+, via
chimerarevo.com
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