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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Give Nautilus’ Breadcrumbs A Sleek New Look

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 […]

5 February 2010
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eHomosapien – Elementary Inspired Homosapien Metacity

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 […]

1 February 2010
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Firefox 4 Theme For Linux – Tabs on Top, Tab Peek, Lots More!

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 […]

21 January 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Wallpapers – The Ubuntu Artwork Pool

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 […]

21 January 2010
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Finestly – Proposed Ubuntu Lucid Theme

“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 […]

21 January 2010
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Change Notification Bubble Colours In Karmic

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 […]

13 January 2010
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Easily Create Animated Wallpapers In Ubuntu

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 […]

7 January 2010
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Impression Themes Once Again Proposed For Ubuntu

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 […]

3 January 2010
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WillWillIbex – One of The Best Forgotten Themes For Ubuntu?

WillWillIbex was a proposed “design” for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex made by a one Will Williams back in 2008. At the time it was nothing more than a mock-up made in Photoshop but the design so […]

17 December 2009
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Docky Themes [Yes, Themes for Docky!]

The first 3rd party themes for Docky have been made and popped up on Gnome-Look by user mio6. Two themes are included in the package. These are:  Bluesmoke: – and Grey: – Download http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Themes+for+Docky?content=117108 Install […]

14 December 2009
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New Wave 0.8.2 Released

Popular GTK+ theme ‘New Wave’ saw a new release today.   Version 0.8.2 bags itself a ton of changes and improvements, including improved text colour on statusbar, tooltips, etc, and restyled frames for various applications. […]

14 December 2009
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Elementary Theme Gets A PPA

One of the most popular themes for GNOME, Elementary theme, has finally landed itself in a PPA so that users may stay up-to-date with the latest tweaks, changes and improvements to the already flawless theme. […]

11 December 2009