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A Dozen GNOME Themes

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 26, 2010

[ Thanks to Sean
Parsons
for this link. ]

“Now there are plenty of sites that have posted their
top 10, top 16, top 25, even their top 50 themes for GNOME, but
some how their lists always include the same designs over and over.
The goal here is to look at some newer and/or forgotten themes,
some interesting combinations fom preexisting themes, and some
inclusions of original work to provide a reason to look at these
themes.

“AIRLINES

“This first theme comes from the Bisigi Project. The Bisigi
Project aims to create complete and coherent themes. They are
designed to be light (using gtk-engines like murrine), simple and
keep the GNOME philosophy. The screenshot above does not do justice
for how beautiful this theme is. Also, one of the things that I
really like is its animated wallpaper. The home page for this
particular theme can be found here:
http://www.bisigi-project.org/?p=411〈=en.

“AURORA LEOPARD BSM WITH SP MODS

“Yeah, the title sucks but I think the theme itself is frickin
awesome. Haven Lee (a.k.a, jcase008) released a dark OS X style
theme, but it was still a little rough looking so I changed the
nbase_color from #b3b3b3 to #ffffff so that OOo applications would
display correctly. I made new buttons for the metacity theme
because there were jagged edges around all the buttons. The end
effect does not look as mac-esque, but the images gained a much
smoother appearance, and I was not really worried specifically
about looking like OS X.”


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Web Webster

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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