More posts about “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.


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Dark Shine BURG Theme adds transpicuous vibrancy to your boot screen

Add some ambiance (no, not that one) to your BURG boot-loader with SWOrginal’s Dark Shine Burg theme – a vibrant hyaline-like theme reminiscent of speeding city lights at night. Download file and easy-install script in the link […]

25 June 2010

easy to use Lucid-themed conky bar now even easier to use!

Remember that easy to use Lucid-themed Conky bar we showed you back in early May? It’s just got even easier to use. Many of you loved the look of the look of the bar but […]

16 June 2010
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Set your Desktop, GDM & Plymouth wallpaper as the same image

Want your desktop, GDM background & Plymouth boot image to match? Using gargantuo‘s Global Wallpaper script you can easily do so. Download Download the script @ gnome-look.org Installation Extract the archive Open a terminal and […]

3 June 2010
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icoGen lets you change the colours of the most popular icon sets

Do you love the Elementary icon set but wish it was green? Would you use Meliae if it was less pastel? Say hello to the answer: icoGen. icoGEN can generate whole new iconsets based on SVG […]

1 June 2010
GNOME Pie Unity Theme

Smart GTK theme is light, elegant and fresh

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 […]

31 May 2010
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New Skin Makes Opera Web Browser Look 10x Better on Ubuntu

Opera came top in our ‘What is the fastest browser on Linux?’ test-o-rama conducted a few days back, and since then a number of you have decided to take it for a web-browsing whirl. But […]

27 May 2010
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How to easily create slideshow wallpapers in Ubuntu

‘Wallpaper Slideshow’ is the name and easily generating slideshow wallpaper files for GNOME is the game by allowing users to easily create and then set the background.xml file used for wallpaper slideshows in Gnome. The […]

24 May 2010
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Victory: A Tweakers dream GTK Theme

NeWhoa‘s Victory GTK+ theme offers users more than just a good looking desktop for it allows the ability to choose the sidepane and menubar colours separately — making Victory truly worthy of it’s name in […]

24 May 2010
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‘Finery’ theme tweaks Ubuntu Radiance, Looks better for it

Here’s one for the long-term readers — hands up if you remember this post about a rather swell ‘Ubuntu Light Re-imagined’ mock-up? No-one? Thanks to the hard work of Immanuel Peratoner the theme is now […]

14 May 2010
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Easy to use Lucid themed Conky bar

Conky is a  is a light-weight system monitor that can be customized extensively (Windows converts think ‘rainmeter’.) and the following Conky theme by Veoduendes certainly proves that. Called ‘Conky Ubuntu Lucid Theme’ (!) it’s designed, […]

5 May 2010
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8 Slick CoverGloobus Themes

To celebrate CoverGloobus finally getting a Lucid-friendly PPA here are 8 hand-picked CoverGloobus themes from the art-mine that is DeviantArt. (Notice: 32bit users may have noticed by now that CoverGloobus for Lucid in the PPA […]

4 May 2010
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‘WindowPane’ Docky theme adds sunlight to any desktop

Excuse the bad window pun – my mind is literally frozen this evening. Nevertheless, on with showcasing the following fantastic Docky theme by krTsukasa titled ‘WindowPane’. No-one wins a goldfish for guessing the inspiration behind […]

27 April 2010