Explore “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.


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
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Unified – An incredible new Light theme for Ubuntu

If you’re a fan of light themes then the following slice of gtk pie by Zac Barton will surely impress. Taking a popular never-made theme mock-up adding a sprinkling of elementary metacity and then a […]

19 March 2010
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6 Google Chrome Ubuntu Themes (Radiance, Ambiance, Elementary, Dust etc)

Despite Google Chrome/Chromium being able to use native GTK colouring the results are more often than not disappointing. Thus getting Chrome to blend in with your desktop works best when using Chrome Themes. Ubuntu Chrome […]

15 March 2010
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Lucidity theme finally gets a GTK

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 […]

8 March 2010
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6 Desktop Fonts to try in Ubuntu

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 […]

6 March 2010