"Ubuntu Light Re-Imagined" Theme Released

By , Published March 6, 2010

When we posted the following Mock-up by Deviant Artist fibermarupok a few short days ago most of you were impressed but frustrated that such a beautiful redux was mock-up only.

Well be frustrated no more as the theme is now available to download!

Alpha Release
From the deviantart page: -

Here is the alpha release of the Ubuntu Light Re-Imagined mockup that I’ve submitted a while ago. Please do note that this was made on whim. I just got the urge to make my mockup a reality. I haven’t fully tested it yet and some widgets may not look as they should.

Theme needs the Murrine and Aurora GTK Engines. For convinience, add the Elementary Desktop ppa to have the Elemetary-Nautilus, the current tweaks and optimizations on the Aurora engine.

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

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://www.zacbarton.com/homosapien/customizer/ Zac Barton

    Thats looking very nice. Good work.

  • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

    I love how it takes one amateur designer 48 hours to come up with a theme that trumps what the Ubuntu Art team had months to make.

    I actually think Nautilus looks better in the real theme than it did in the mockup. However, I would like to see the panel tweaked a bit – if possible. The gradient on the active element is a little too harsh.

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/QDPQNW2QGAM6SOTKYKE6II6URI Fredrik

      while i do agree that this looks better, as far as the metacity is concerned at least, i don’t think it’s that simple. this is the ubuntu design team’s theme re-imagined. so it’s based on their work. also i’m not sure whether the tooltips in this theme are as fancy as in the default light theme.

      but i would still like to see canonical doing some styling work on the light theme. making it more stylish and replacing the min, max, close buttons.

      • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

        I would also like to see what the tooltips look like in the implemented theme. In the mockup they looked good at least. They weren’t ugly in the original theme, by any means, but it depends on whether or not they were actually purple, or if they were just a dark or light gradient over the purple wallpaper (which is what I would prefer, since purple would very likely clash with whatever wallpaper I would choose).

    • Matt

      1. He doesn’t created new theme from scratch.
      2. He doesn’t tested it.
      3. Is this theme ready for gnome3?
      4. How would look this theme without graphic acceleration?
      5. Are fonts patents-free?
      6. How look this theme in lower resolutions?
      etc…

      About mockups:
      I hate them, because they shows something that is usually impossible to implement.
      Window is constructed by using basic basic gnome-specific elements (widgets).
      Please install Glade and try to create GUI from any mockup ( maybe new rhytmbox mockup? ) – you don’t need to be a programmer to do this.

      I’m not native speaker.

      • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

        I’ve actually worked with Glade for quite some time already, and I’m well aware of its limitations. But I don’t see how that’s relevant to the topic at hand. In order to implement certain mockups (like the rhythmbox one) you at least have to restyle the widgets, which wouldn’t be done using Glade. Mockups in general are more or less a must at the creative stages of any design project, as it allows you to more freely demonstrate what you would like to achieve – without getting stuck on the technical details that may hinder the creative process.

        As for the theme:
        1. No. So? Does that make it inferior?
        2. Excuse me? Of course he has. It would be quite impossible to develop a theme without testing. Also, if you would bother to read the theme description, it says that it’s an alpha release and that there are some known bugs.
        3. That I do not know.
        4. I’m quite sure it would degrade just like any other theme.
        5. That looks like plain-old sans to me, so yeah.
        6. I don’t see any elements that would degrade particularly unwell at lower resolutions.

        • Matt

          Yes, you are right.

          You said:
          “I love how it takes one amateur designer 48 hours to come up with a theme that trumps what the Ubuntu Art team had months to make. ”

          1. He created this theme so fast because he used others work (which is very good).
          2. Yes, it is in alpha stage only, so it is not ready for normal user.
          3. I don’t now too =)
          4. He used docky. Docky without hardware acceleration? That’s why this theme can’t be default :(

          I didn’t expect that someone will answer my questions. All I want to say that your post was a bit unfair. Ubuntu Art Team is not only responsible for theming and they must think also about usability, future technologes etc.

          Despite this, I am also a bit disappointed. Current theme isn’t bad, but it could be better.

          • Tom Wright

            3. Yes, of course – existing themes will work fine in gnome 3 and if that were not the case, the underlying engine would be updated anyway.

      • Tom Wright

        Why on earth would implementing a particular design be ‘impossible’? – some might be difficult without improving GTK and the Window manager, but those are things which need to be done.

  • Paradiesstaub
    • daas88

      looks nice, but what is the “Einstellungen” at the left? Is that the menu bar?

      • Paradiesstaub

        Einstellungen means options in German :)

  • Idea
  • Anonymous

    Is it just me or is the panel really very similar to Mac panel?

    • Anonymous

      Its much thicker then the mac panel. It is much lighter colored. The icons are lighter. And its really not very similar, except its on the top and is moderately monochrome.

  • nathan

    why does the ubuntu art team can’t come up with “at least” something like this ?????

    yeah yeah, free fonts, gnome3, gnome12, compiz 54……….. What about a nice looking theme like this one that doesn’t look retarded like the old one :-p

    • Anonymous

      I am getting rather frustrated at people bashing the ubuntu art team….
      just remember that they were behind this original art and that tweaks are to come
      its like saying that arrows are stupid….why didn’t they just make the gun right away?

      just my 2 cents

      • Anonymous

        I agree completely. Some amateur comes on, makes tweaks on something that the Ubuntu team has been working on for a long time, and people talk about it like they were working on it coincidentally, and this guy made the better one. He basically stole all of their work, and then added a little bit of his own.

        I don’t mean any of that with disrespect to this new guy, its alot more work than I would ever be willing to do, people just need to stop mindlessly trashing what the ubuntu team is trying to do.

        I actually really liked the original, I especially thought that the indented minimize, maximize and close buttons looked slick, and I miss them here. Its good that people in the Ubuntu community are willing to put in the work to remix themes for themselves and others, but the disrespect here is incredible. I’m a little tired of people praising this guy as a messiah that should replace the Ubuntu team.

  • Anonymous

    i think that the original theme has its virtues…..and so does this one
    however, i would recommend labeling the window buttons (matter of preference i guess)

  • Brian

    I’m sticking with Dust and elementary. But I think this is a good start on implementing the mock-up’s vision. Always great to see slick new themes available. Great work!

  • Anonymous

    I might not like the new themes as much as I like the plymouth theme and the rest of the artwork, but at least they (artwork team) are moving in the right direction, maybe in a few releases the themes will be polished to a point that will surpass the expectations.

    I was very disapointed when I saw the GTK+ themes and I bashed the artwork team, but when II thought about it I realized it was a step in the right direction and that the themes weren’t final and are going to be polished.

  • Anonymous

    I would love it if there was a way to prevent windows that don’t have all the “minimize, max, and close” icons to load properly, it looks ugly when one side is a smooth round, and the other is this straight line..

  • Anonymous

    You just need to make the ubuntu panel transparent, reduce height and it will look just like the mac one. I don’t really see any difference between the icons.

    • Anonymous

      You just need to make the ubuntu panel transparent, increase height, move it to the bottom and it looks just like windows 7.

      The fact that the mac one has an application menu across it while ubuntu has applications, places, and system… those are fairly different. Mac has dedicated search, while ubuntu has a user switcher and power options… fairly different. add to that that ubuntu comes with two panels, one on top, one on bottom, and you get even more difference. The mac bottom ‘panel’ is a dock, which is used to launch programs. Ubuntu launches programs from the top left menu.

      As far as the icons, how many differeny, efficient ways are there to show sound, or wifi, or a clock?

      • daas88

        Good answer. I would add that mac panel doesn’t have an applet like the “Me menu” :)

        • Anonymous

          No kidding. Even if appearance is somewhat similar, functionality is very different.

  • Anonymous

    Since its an alpha i’ll not try it. Waiting for a final!

  • Delano

    Hey!! I have some problems with firefox and openoffice, menu texts appear white. Any solution?