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.
Lucidity was a proposed theme for Ubuntu 10.04 but despite being only a mock-up it proved so popular with users that a Metacity based on it soon sprang forth. Now a GTK+ theme to match […]
A fresh install of Ubuntu yields one annoyance that seems to irritate most people: the default ‘Sans’ font is set at a gigantic 10px. The effect of having the font so large is evident from […]
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 […]
A selection of replacement tray/app icons for the Pino Microblogging client. This set are ‘twitter’ style – perfect if you only use Pino for Tweeting. Fresh, yo! A speech bubble with a twitter style ‘t’ […]
Enabling RGBA GTK – or, for a helpful description, ‘proper window transparency’ – used to require a ton of compiling followed by a lot of groaning and wondering whether it was worth it. Well those […]
Although a new name has yet to be decided for Nautilus-Elementary’s CoverFlow view (don’t forget to cast your vote on a new name in our poll) you’re probably itching to try it out, huh? Install […]
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. […]
An anonymous soul emailed me this mocked-up theme for Ubuntu Lucid. They provided some reasoning behind what you see: – The thing for me is that there are always little things that bother me with […]
Pino is a fantastic little twitter application. We’ve blogged about it many times previously and know many of you love it. One thing that still comes up as an ‘issue’ whenever we blog about it […]
At some point I will have to stop talking about Homosapien but it’s hard when tweaks and edits, like the following edit by osliner, keep cropping up: – Slimmer, compact and users your selected background […]
If you’re using the awesome Nautilus-Elementary you may love this. The following Elementary theme mod replaces the standard ‘breadcrumbs’ in Elementary-Nautilus with a slick ‘all-in-one’ set: – Original on top, Elementary-mod on bottom. Get it […]
We’ve all been drooling over the Homosapien metacity – themes of late. Now, from the same designer as that Metacity comes an elementary inspired version called ‘eHomosapien‘. Sadly what you see above is merely a […]
With Firefox 3.6’s release earlier today you may be falling in love with your browser all over again – especially thanks to the integration of ‘Personas’. A month or so back we posted the mocked […]
A large chunk of the wallpapers to be packaged up with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx will be drawn from the public “Ubuntu Artwork” group on photo sharing site Flickr. I’ve been hesitant to plunder the talented […]
“Finestly” is the most recent proposed theme for inclusion in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. A heavily dark theme that works well with the Humanity Dark icon set, it is sure to be popular amongst many […]
Ubuntu Forum user genaroneto has posted an excellent tutorial on how to change the colour of the Notification bubbles in Karmic to one of your choosing. I won’t re-print the entire tutorial here as it’s […]
Using XML animated background creator to create auto-changing wallpapers is a snip. It allows you to specify the folder and images you wish to use, the duration of each wallpaper and auto-generates the required .xml […]
The impression themes – already available in Karmic via the community-themes package, have been proposed for inclusion in Lucid Lynx. These updated version of Impression sport cleaner lines, more cohesive design considerations and a few […]