Smart GTK theme is light, elegant & Fresh

By , Published May 31, 2010

Looking for a fresh light theme to brighten up your desktop? Say hello to Pr09studio's latest work: Smart GTK.

Smart GTK theme was designed with the new Ubuntu colour scheme in mind. As such, you can see from below that it works beautifully with the Ubuntu Mono-light icon set.

The theme has a tonne of custom touches including gradients on the menus, panel background, custom Metacity & it's own wallpaper.

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There are a few issue to note with Smart GTK. The volume slider doesn't look pretty and GTK tabs have a unique look €“ but look like they're half finished to my eyes.

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Niclas

    Think the link is broken, nice theme though. +1

  • http://livinginagoogleworld.blogspot.com/ Jonathan Frederickson

    It’s nice… but it needs a Chrome theme. :P

  • http://thealphanerd.wordpress.com/ Calvin

    Meh. I’ve seen better.

    Personally I prefer Raleigh or MurrineTango as my GTK theme, but to each their own.

  • Rodislav

    mac4lin theme,
    but it looks nice .. i think, the screenshot its little, and i can see it zommed

  • mel

    Finery is way better than this..

  • Anonymous

    It looks nice if you just use the window borders with some other controls, say, Kin is what I’m using, and a custom panel background with Humanity icons.

    I still don’t like the default icon set for the mono panel icons.. they’re just too chunky. They say the opposite of “Light” to me, I think the Humanity monochrome panel icons are a lot better.

  • Dave

    Would someone be so kind as to help me get this working? Extracting into /usr/share/themes and going to install it from appearances gives me nothing to click on but empty folder. Using the .zip and I’m informed it’s not a valid theme folder. Dragging and dropping tells me the same thing. I swear, I must be missing something.

  • Anonymous

    I love the wallpaper but Radience Osliner rocks to hard on my desktop.

  • peder

    Nice one! Give me that in dark and i’ll have a new default theme for the next years :)

  • Lekegf

    Hum… Really is very beautiful, but what I have to do to install this? o_o”
    Someone know how I do that? Thanks! :D

    *Noobiew question, but I really don’t know how I can do that.

  • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

    I have yet to see any theme other than the default one work with the sound slider (okay, so it’s probably the sound slider that doesn’t work with anything else). it’s a damn shame.

  • zacbarton

    You can style the volume slider using the below. That’s what I used in Unified – http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=121728

    widget “ido-offscreen-scale” style “your_style”

  • Vortex

    The only thing that is light elegant & Fresh is the wallpaper…^^
    Ugly theme, much better finery or even if you want to try the new light-themes during testing,look here:

    https://launchpad.net/~dashua/+archive/light-themes

    There is also a new ambiance-dark theme…;)

  • Yoni Weiss

    What Icon theme are you using?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EQXE2LESYWFWAS4W3IWWJ2U4SE Allan

    Please, can you tell me what is the name off the application that are show the albun of de music you are listening to and you can control the music player.

  • cj

    hey i’m kind of a new to ubuntu . i downloaded the file but let u know the way ican use it.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Extract the .zip folder you downloaded. Inside you’ll see a folder called ‘smart gtk’ – open the Appearance menu (System > Preferences > Appearance ), click the ‘theme’ tab at the top and then drag the folder onto the window. It’ll install!

      To use the panel backgroundright click the panel you wish to change > properties > background > background image > select ‘panel_bg_24.png’.