Ubuntu Ambiance Theme for Gnome Shell

Half-left has designed a new theme for Gnome Shell based on the Default Ambiance theme in Ubuntu. The theme looks great and if you use Gnome 3 PPA in Ubuntu 11.04, it would nicely integrate with your desktop.

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Elementary Lion: Elementary Theme, Mac Style

Elementary Lion theme combines styles of both Elementary and Mac themes into one. The theme is created by deviantARTist Dolsilwa and is available for both Classic Gnome and Unity.

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Install Updated Overlay Scrollbars in Ubuntu 11.04

A new version of overlay scrollbars has been released bringing in smart edge detection behavior, new orange highlight around the thumb and many other fixes.

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Get the Best of Both Worlds,Your Own Alternative to the Default Unity Main Menu

There are many Ubuntu users who like Unity interface and its ability to optimize screen space. But the default main menu is a bit of pain as all the categories are hidden by default and it does not support wine menus. There is an application lens but it is way down at the bottom, not movable and most of the time it is folded as I pin lots of applications on Unity launcher.

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Beautiful Icon Set 'Awoken 2.0' Released, Now with a PPA for Natty

Gorgeous icon set Awoken has reached version 2.0 and now have more than 12000 icons. Awoken icon set is one of the most comprehensive icon sets available for Gnome and it just looks stunning with Unity.

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Try SlingShot Application Launcher from Elementary Team in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

Elementary team has come up with their own application menu called slingshot which provides a pleasing and simple to use interface for browsing installed applications on your system.

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Give a Dash of Unity to Windows XP and Windows 7

Ubuntu's new user interface Unity might not be perfect but the new eye candy it has brought to desktop has attracted many users. Only within a week of release of Ubuntu 11.04, complete Unity conversion packs for Windows have already been made.

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Things To Do After Installing New Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal'

Ubuntu 11.04 has been released and many of you may have already upgraded or installed the latest version. While trying the new Unity interface, you may be wondering how to customize and optimize it to suit your needs. So here is our Ubuntu 11.04 Customization Guide.

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Orta Theme Updated to Version 1.4.0, Install from PPA

Orta, one of the most beautiful themes available for Ubuntu, recently got updated to version 1.4.0 that brings many fixes smaller menu icons and a new nautilus breadcrumbs style.

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Elementary Studio : A New Dark Theme Based on Elementary Theme

 

Elementary Studio is a new dark theme by Azraelthe7thMurderer which is based on Elementary theme by DanRabbit.

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Divergence IV and Ambiance Plasma : Two New Themes for KDE

Just came across these two great looking themes for KDE.

Divergence IV by Palobo

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Gorgeous Orta Theme Gets a PPA

Beautiful Orta theme got many new features and a PPA since I wrote about it last time. 

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New Orta GTK Theme Looks Great on Your Ubuntu Desktop

Orta is a new GTK theme that just stands out with an innovative tab style, metacity controls, elementrish looks and two different panel styles.

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Get Faenza and Ubuntu Icons For Windows 7

You can now get a feel of Ubuntu on your Windows 7 desktop with fan made Faenza and Ubuntu icon packs for Windows 7. These icon packs look really good on Windows 7 and give a native feel specially if you dual boot.

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Set Any Animated Screensaver as Your Desktop Background

Anibg is simple application that allows you to set any of your screensaver as desktop wallpaper. The application is a frontend for Shantz-XWinWrap and uses XScreenSaver.

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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.

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Faenza Cupertino Icons Ported to KDE and The Plasma Desktop Just Looks Stunning

Faenza Cupertino icon theme, a blue flavor of popular icon theme Faenza has been ported to KDE thanks to TheDeviantMars and the Plasma Desktop just looks amazing. The icon theme seem to blend well with blue KDE theme. Have a look yourself.

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Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.7 Released with New Ubuntu 10.10 PPAs

Ubuntu Tweak developer TualatriX announced today a new version - 0.5.7 as a gift to the Ubuntu 10.10 users on his blog. The new version comes with lots of bug fixes and updated PPAs for many applications so that Maverick users can have one-click install of their favorite apps.

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Update Your Light Themes in Maverick

A third update to light theme has been released. The Changes are:  

Menu item speed-up
Subtle shadow on inactive notebook’s tabs  
White text colour on GtkProgressBar  
Increased visibility of the resize gripper  
Fixed contrast applied to elements in GtkStatusbar  
More compatibility with custom colour specified in Appearance Preferences  
Increased contrast between text and background   
Tweaks to the odd row color inside GtkTreeView        

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Impression Themes Get a Makeover in Maverick

Impression themes, one of the best looking community themes in Ubuntu get a makeover in Maverick. The themes make nice use of colors used in Ubuntu Branding i.e aubergine and orange and feature a slimmer scrollbar.

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