5 Ubuntu Light-inspired GTK Themes

By , Published March 10, 2010

With so many 'Ubuntu Light' inspired/tweaked/modded themes suddenly sailing about the blogosphere, I thought that it was time the very best dropped anchor into the OMG! port so we could check them out in a bit better detail.

OslinerRadience by ~osliner

Evidently one of the best spins in this list. If you saw the Rhythmbox €œwow€ mock-up we posted a few days back then the familiarity in this theme will become evident as it's based on it.  The theme also uses cues from the Ubuntu Radiance theme.

Osliner has consistently produced amazing work over these last few months and this latest effort just keeps showing off his talent.    

Download: http://osliner.deviantart.com/art/OslinerRadience-156587632

Ambiance Black by ~shafin

The Ambiance theme gets a morbid make-over as shafin re-colours the theme to have a black look.

Ambiance_Black_by_shafin

Download: http://shafin.deviantart.com/art/Ambiance-Black-156787766

Light X by bababoss

Light X is actually an interpretation of the new Lucid themes rather than being built upon them. Maker bababoss uses window buttons from Dust, the elementary metacity and the theme itself is based on the human-theme.

Download: http://bababoss.deviantart.com/art/Light-X-1-1-156718222

Ambiance Cold by ripps818

A colder blue toned version of Radiance.

Download: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Ambiance+Cold?content=121118

Ubuntu light Re-Imagined

We've actually featured this one before but it's too pretty not to include again! Many readers found it more desirable than the actual Light theme, so give it a try.

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Download: http://fibermarupok.deviantart.com/art/Ubuntu-Light-GTK-Theme-156313158

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Mohan

    I see light themes are on the rise again..hehe! :)

    • Anonymous

      muhahahaaahhaaa…..dark stylish backgrounds are next…..*an evil laugh so evil it takes thirteen comments pages and ignites a flame war, hehe*

      • Mohan

        Man that is one evil laugh! :)

  • Schiwe

    love the light themes!
    minimalist design is back for good…

  • osliner

    Thanks for posting my theme!

    Osliner

  • Lucd

    It’s not shown in the screenshot, but with the OslinerRadience theme, I’m getting transparency with all the grey parts in nautilus other than the titlebar… Pretty cool.

    • daas88

      Isn’t that because of the elementary nautilus modification?

      • Lucd

        Hmm, yeah that might be it!

  • daas88

    I think they are all better than the default. Beautiful themes =)

  • Anonymous

    I want have the default theme Ambiance finally bugfree! This is want I want! The defaults, bugfree or almost bugfree … that would be great! Than … on base of the Final-Light-Gtk I would start with the mods. But peoples don’t have patience. Always hurry hurry …

  • Anonymous

    If anyone is interested, I modded the Ubuntu Radiance metacity with some new buttons, I call it Ambivalence :)

    You can download it here: http://kazade.co.uk/downloads/ubuntu/Ambivalence.tar.gz

  • Anonymous

    I’ll stick to human-kmod D:

  • Anonymous

    I’m not a big fan of the new themes and their offspring, but osliner’s work is awesome.

  • Anonymous

    What is the left side dock on OslinerRadience?

    • Anonymous

      Docky

      • Anonymous

        wait really? I’ve missed a lot since I stopped using Docky. Might have to switch back… and give it a whirl. So let me get this straight – you can have both a bottom AND side dock in docky now? My mind just exploded.

        • Anonymous

          Yup ;)

  • Anonymous

    The last two ones are the best and I would say that the Ambiance Cold theme is the best… just one thing: why everyone gets a dock as their bottom panel? I don’t know, I like to see my desktop and window space framed by two nice and useful panels…

  • yzarc

    I do like the first one, but I’d like to have the buttons and the scrollbar like in the original version.

  • Anonymous

    10.04 is going to create a dark side vs light side o.o

  • MLC

    It’s just that no one likes the moldy vanilla flushed up against light grey that the Radiance theme currently has. It just doesn’t look that delicious. O_O But I guess they’re still trying to ‘play it safe’ and not go too extreme, or monochrome.

  • appi2012

    I’ve also created a theme that is fairly similar to the Ambiance theme, and uses many of its tweaks (i.e. Dragging from the menubar, etc.) Its called Warmth, and its on gnome-look:

    http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Warmth?content=106753

    I would love some feedback on how to improve the theme.

    • Anonymous

      i found your theme before the light theme were released and they have THE smoothest transition from the file,edit,view,etc. menu to the metacity :D it is an amazing theme allover also

      pce from vancouver,canada

      • appi2012

        Thanks!

  • Anonymous

    Hi, if someone is interessed..I’m cleaned ubuntu ambiance… you can find here http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?action=content&content=121159
    say to me what you think….