Topic: Eye Candy

Give your Ubuntu desktop a stunning new look with GTK themes, free icon packs, Conky, visual customisation tools, rad wallpapers and more – all of which you’ll find badged with this tag.


Adapta theme for KDE Plasma

Adapta Theme is Now Available for the KDE Plasma Desktop

The hugely popular Adapta theme is now available for KDE Plasma users to enjoy. A new port brings the Adapta GTK theme to the KDE Plasma 5 desktop for the first time, news that will […]

24 September 2017

Make Visual Studio Code Match Your Gtk Theme

Here's a useful Visual Studio Code extension that helps theme the app to match a slate of popular GTK themes, including Arc, Adapta and Ubuntu's Ambiance.

22 September 2017
Komorebi is an animated wallpaper app for Ubuntu

Komorebi 2 is an Animated Wallpaper App for Ubuntu

Komorebi 2 is an animated wallpaper background app for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. It supports video wallpapers, parallax backgrounds, and more.

8 September 2017
Numix Square icon set on Ubuntu desktop

Ubuntu Desktop Looking Dull? Try Numix Square Icons

Numix Square icons give your Linux desktop a soft, streamlined and modern appearance. We show you how to install Numix Square icon set on Ubuntu.

22 August 2017

Flat Remix Icon Theme for Linux

Flat Remix icon theme is — faux gasp — a flat icon theme for Linux desktops (mainly those using GNOME) with broad application coverage. Check it out!

9 August 2017

How To Add Blur to GNOME Shell

Remember how sexy the Unity Dash looked with its background blur effect enabled? Blyr brings something similar to GNOME Shell. It’s a straight-forward GNOME extension that adds a blur effect to the Activities Overview screen. A […]

11 July 2017

Make the ‘ls’ Command Look Blingy in Ubuntu with Colorls

Are you a longtime lover of the humble list (aka ls) command? If so, here’s a small Ruby gem which “beautifies” the command using colour and some flash font-awesome icons. The result iss luscious as […]

9 July 2017
folder color thumbnail

Folder Color Now Works With More Icon Themes, Includes More Color Options

A couple of weeks back we spotlighted Folder Color, a simple app that makes it easy to change folder color on Ubuntu. Great timing it turns out as the app has just picked up a […]

3 July 2017
papirus icon theme

Papirus Icon Theme Picks Up 64 New App Icons, Including Etcher, Standard Notes and InSync

Earlier this month the Papirus icon set received a small bump update, broadening the theme's app coverage and fixing a few mis-named glyphs in the process.

27 June 2017
telegram logo

Make Telegram Look at Home on Ubuntu with this Ambiance Theme

We've found an Ambiance Telegram theme that helps integrate the popular messaging service's desktop client with the Ubuntu desktop.

15 June 2017
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How to Change Folder Colour on Ubuntu (The Easy Way)

Discover how to change folder color on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and above in this guide. We use a free utility that lets you instantly change folder color.

15 June 2017
arc theme for thunderbird

Thunderbird Arc Theme Updated Adds Support for Arc Variants

An update to the Arc Thunderbird theme add-on is now available for download, and brings support for the 3 Arc GTK theme variants.

12 June 2017