gtk 3.x

Ubuntu is the operating system chosen by 20 million users, offering an attractive pleasant-to-the-eye look, including two good-looking default GTK+ themes, Ambiance and Radiance.

Yet, where there are millions of users, there are numerous tastes and preferences, attribute met by the Ubuntu community with a significant amount of themes already available in the open.

Lucidity 3.0 is a simplistic GTK+3 theme that corroborates a spartan look (sober colors) with a clean design, mix that is to give the user a feel of properly balanced interface with both light and dark parts.

The theme brings an overall roundness feel via its round buttons and windows' bottom "corners", as well as small yet perceivable tweaks, like for instance, the integrated look of Nautilus' addressbar that borrows the same color as the icon view giving an "invisible" look&feel.

It seems that Ubuntu has taken the overall full-fledged design into account as a first class citizen, approach proven by the solid amount of polish that lands in Ubuntu day-by-day.

eLuna is a GTK+3 theme that comes with a dark style and colored text (like for instance, blue text on the Unity panel/topbar).

eLuna brings a dark sidebar for Nautilus, as well as rounded search fields (in Nautilus), metal-like ON/OFF buttons, as well as various eyecandy bits.

The theme is properly integrated into Unity, thus displays its close/minimize/maximize buttons on the Unity panel when in fullscreen mode.

Light Themes evolved are modified versions of Ubuntu's default light themes, Ambiance and Radiance.

Ubuntu 11.10 is out and filled with GNOME 3 featuring the gorgeous Unity 3D shell (by default) and an optimized panel, Unity panel.

Unity panel introduced a new placement for indicator, new transparent buttons when the Dash is active but the "alien" themes are not quite integrated in term of Unity panel which display fallback buttons when the window is in fullscreen mode.

This can be easily fixed for most of the GTK+3 themes via few easy steps (this "demo" provides the adjustments for Zukitwo):

GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to
complete application suites.

GTK+ 3.2.0 stable has been released just now and, along with GNOME 3.2, has started to land in Ubuntu 11.10.

What is new in GTK+ 3.2.0?

Days ago, Ubuntu 11.10 shifted from GTK+2's Ambiance and Radiance to GTK+3.
Although this process was mainly about porting the light themes, there are some minor extra "stuff" from an UI point-of-view:

• tolltips have prominent borders now

Ambiance and Radiance, Ubuntu's light themes, have been finally ported to GTK+3. The new updated version (0.1.8.15) has just landed in Oneiric and, surprise, not only Ambiance, but also Radiance has been ported to GTK+3.

First of all, this first release is mainly about porting this themes to GTK+3, so, no major changes now, but:

The notorious GTK theme, Elementary, has just been updated to 2.1 version after 5 month from previous 2.0 version.

Elementary theme creator, Dan Rabbit, has dropped the Aurora engine in this release and added an xfwm4 theme.
The great thing about Elementary GTK 2.1 is its compatibility with GTK 3 (shipped by default in Natty Narwhal +1, parts of it shipped already in Natty).

For installation, just add the following PPA (Maverick Meerkat only):