New Elementary Theme Released with Dark Panels

Elementary Theme has hit version 2.0 that brings dark panels and menus and new breadcrumbs among other new features and fixes.

Other Changes:

• New Breadcrumb and Modebutton style for Nautilus Elementary
• New Dark Panel style with Dark Menus
• Revised Midori sidebar
• All new Murrine Buttons
• Scrollbars drawn with Murrine instead of Pixmap
• Dropped Equinox Engine
• Brighter colours
• New Progressbars
• New Listview style
• Tons of XFCE improvements

You can download the new theme from here

PPA:

The new theme package is not yet uploaded to the Elementary Art PPA. You can add the PPA to your sources though by running following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementaryart/ppa

sudo apt-get update

The PPA will also have Elementary Icons 2.5 some time soon. So it will be a good idea to add it to your sources if you haven't. A teaser of upcoming Elementary Icons 2.5 posted by DanRabbit on Deviantart sometime back:

Dark Panels:

You can enable dark panels by editing gtkrc file in /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-2.0

At the bottom of the file you will find the following line:

include "Apps/panel.rc"

Now, replace it with:

include "Apps/panel-dark.rc"

That's it. Enjoy the new faster and cleaner elementary theme in your Ubuntu desktop.

[via Elementary-Project Blog]