Elementary Theme Getting New Metacity

By , Published February 17, 2010

We love the Elementary theme here at OMG! and we know a large chunk of you do, too.

If you’re not using the incredibly awesome eHomosapien metacity chances are you’re using the default Elementary metacity. You may be interested to know then that this will be getting a bit of a makeover soon (and you can install it now!)

Old

New

Much better! =D

Download @ dl.dropbox.com/u/1115768/egtk.tar.gz

Install
A simple drag n’ drop into the theme section of ‘Appearance Preferences’ installs the Metacity.

To use it as your window border select Elementary then ‘customize’. Go to the ‘Window Border’ tab and choose ‘eGTK’.

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  1. eHomosapien – Elementary Inspired Homosapien Metacity
  2. Elementary Theme Gets A PPA
  3. Google Wave Metacity
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  • Iswan

    Great, thanks!

  • Mohan

    Pretty cool, but I kinda liked the older one better. The new one it reminds me of Shiki Metacity.

  • http://tuananh.me/ kemsiro

    i prefer the old style

  • adrien haxaire

    thanks !

    i’ll give it a try, even if i really like the older one0.

  • http://www.linuxmint.com/ Jimbo

    The old one is arguably prettier, but the new one has much better usability.

  • Anonymous

    I’m confused, all the metacity from elementary i’ve used has been the plus and minus signs, why do you say the circles are the old ones?

  • Anonymous

    Oh Noes. You post a tar and it’s not nearly ready yet >.<

    I guess that's life :p

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      I can remove it if you’d rather but people do so love your work ^_^

      • Anonymous

        haha, no harm done. Just don’t judge :p

        • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

          I’m in the middle of a 10, 000 word post on why this metacity clearly shows that you’ve run out of ideas and that the Elementary project has clearly run out of steam. ;)

          • Anonymous

            lol, I’d rather see a 10,000 word post on how some things just work and there’s no sense in re-inventing the wheel ;)

          • Anonymous

            lol, I’d rather see a 10,000 word post on how some things just work and there’s no sense in re-inventing the wheel ;)

    • Mohan

      Yeah Danrabbit, your work is excellent.

  • http://nerdetection.rv89.com gabrielbutoeru

    ehumanity looks much better but this one is great too :D

  • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

    Any word on when this will make its way to the elementaryart PPA?

  • http://hadret.com/ Hadret

    Cool (:

  • Anonymous

    Love the new one, just dont like the circles on the old one.

  • http://identi.ca/cruelangel CruelAngel

    I prefer my own Metacity d:

  • http://firefly-nexus.org/ GhostLyrics

    no. This is going to break my pseudo-mac style :(

  • Anonymous

    one word…

    LUCIDITY !

    Still, looks nice though

    • Anonymous

      Yea, this little experiment is heavily inspired by Lucidity! I’ve yet to decide if this will be the final look in this next release, but it’s looking good so far :)

      • Anonymous

        I actually like it more than Lucidity mate. Its now gracing my system! Is there a PPA for it (if thats possible, lol)?

        Keep it up mate

        • Anonymous

          It’ll get into the elementary PPA when I do a new release of elementary GTK and Icons in March.

          • Anonymous

            Hey man. Great work. Big fan.

            About elementary icons, I really use them, but I use some apps that haven’t icons yet… it’s really sad for me :(
            Instead, I looked up to gnome-colors and I found that they have a good collection of apps (more than humanity in fact).
            I know that is a lot of time and work to design new icons for all that apps, but you can ask to gnome-colors to use some of their icons just until you make your own, in order to have a “non-blanked” iconset. The updates will sequencially re-making those (from new presets maybe), but in that time users will have a complete set of icons.

            I don’t what do you think about that.

            Also there is a blank icon when I use oowriter (?, its strange, beacuse also happens with humanity, but only if I have 1 doc opened).

            And… by the way, do you like how e-homosapien looks with egtk?

            I really appreciate your work.

            Keep it that way, congrats.

            Rho

            (yeah… , my english sucks, it is totally fucked up, I know) xP

          • Anonymous

            The problem here is that I don’t *want* to have every application icon ever. If you don’t like an applications icon, you should file a bug with the upstream developer. I have no problem with developers asking me to do icons for them. But, I don’t want to ship a whole ton of icons, myself.

            I’m not sure about other themes, I only use elementary :p

            Your English is great ;)

        • Anonymous

          It’ll get into the elementary PPA when I do a new release of elementary GTK and Icons in March.

      • Anonymous

        I actually like it more than Lucidity mate. Its now gracing my system! Is there a PPA for it (if thats possible, lol)?

        Keep it up mate

      • Anonymous

        This should be.Then those mac idiots wouldn’t call it a Apple-ish theme.

        • Anonymous

          haha, well I’m quite happy with the look of it. So, I think I’m keeping it. But, FWIW, I use a Mac and dualboot with OS X ;) So I can’t lie and say there’s not some inspiration from Apple’s design.

          • Anonymous

            Opps i forgot to say mentally retarded,paying for anything,open-source haters,everything just works i don’t Fu*king care mac fanboys.

          • Anonymous

            sounds like someone has never used a Mac before ;) OS X is some great software, and the hardware is undeniably the most beautiful and elegant out there. Also, Apple is actually pretty supporting of open source considering they are profit driven. They use and contribute to webkit. Their kernel is BSD based (you can actually get an open copy of it). They fully support web standards including ditching flash video for html5. So, when the choice is usually Microsoft or Apple, Apple is really closer to our ideals :)

          • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

            Also don’t forget CUPS.

            And they are choosing html5 because Flash is from Adobe. Even when they’re doing so they’re trying to push their own proprietary format.

            But I guess you’re right about MS x Apple and ideals…

          • http://www.martinsmucker.com Michael Martin-Smucker

            Apple undeniably hires some great designers, and they know how to make software simple to use. That said, last I heard they’re refusing to ship Safari with HTML5 support for Theora (instead they’re using only H.264, which is just about the worst thing possible for the web), they used DRM for audio long after competing stores stopped, and they regularly scramble the database format of newer iPods/iPhones to make it as difficult as possible for competing media players to support their product. They use open source technology when it is financially beneficial to them, but I’d hardly say their ideals are close to ours.

            (I’d still probably prefer to use a Mac over a Windows computer, though, because I’ve started to feel pretty comfortable with the command line and the Unix-y feel over the past few years. =) )

          • Anonymous

            I have used OS X Before(Hackint0sh) and I DON’T HATE IT IN FACT I LIKE IT THAT IS WHY I USE ELEMENTARY AND DOCKY.I just hate Hardcore Mac is the superior to all fanboys that haven’t used any other OS in their life but still uselessy blabber about anything they don’t know.

    • Anonymous

      Yea, this little experiment is heavily inspired by Lucidity! I’ve yet to decide if this will be the final look in this next release, but it’s looking good so far :)

  • w1ngnutz

    Much better! Can you provide more screenshots?

  • Charles Andersson

    It looks a lot like the Shiki-Colors Metacity.

  • none

    Where did you get that tar.gz? My only problem with this website is that you NEVER cite sources. Sure, you can provide a direct link, but you should always link to the source. That said, I was trying to create a metacity that looked just like that! Awesome.

    • none

      Oh, and the link doesn’t work anymore :(
      Dropbox is known to this kind of things when a file is downloaded too many times

      • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

        The link still works fine for me.

        • none

          Yeah, now it works again.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      What would be the point in citing myself? I made the tar. Why do i have to disclaim that?

      As for sources – I link were appropriate (usually in article links) but of the stuff posted here is first-hand hence the lack of “sources”.

      • none

        OK, you made the tar, but that’s not the point, since you probably didn’t make the theme. From what I understand the author is DanRabbit, what I’d like to know is where did you find that theme since I see no activity in DanRabbit’s deviantart nor on his launchpad.

        • Anonymous
          • none

            thanks!

          • none

            thanks!

        • Anonymous
        • Anonymous

          ergh why be a jerk, d0od puts in lots of effort.. hes just bloggin, whereas your just a troll, a hairy one, if you would like him to do something, ask, nicely!

        • Anonymous

          ergh why be a jerk, d0od puts in lots of effort.. hes just bloggin, whereas your just a troll, a hairy one, if you would like him to do something, ask, nicely!

  • Anonymous

    hey d0od, did you know theres a new eHomosapien metacity released by 0rax0 today? (of course nothing major, but few minor fixes are in it)

  • http://www.arturgrakaj.ovh.org Artur Grakaj

    Hey, Guys!
    Where can I find a wallpaper that was used in these screen shots (dark with an interesting pattern, similar to that of the blog)? Can someone help?

  • Guest

    The one thing that stops me using this is the absolutely awful looking corners. They make it look very amateur.

    • Anonymous

      Unforunately, that is a limitation of metacity. It doesn’t support anti-aliasing of corners.

  • Anonymous

    hey guys!!!
    are there any themes for google chrome that fit elementary or any other ubuntu theme???

    • Anonymous

      yes there is an elementary theme for Chrome