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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Sublime XSplash Theme – “Clean Xsplash”

If you’re bored of your current XSplash theme, bored of having your desktop wallpaper set as your XSplash background or even just tired of the other gorgeous XSplashes we’ve shown you, try ‘Clean Xsplash‘ by […]

6 December 2009
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Ubuntu Sun Theme Gets Official Release

Proposed Lucid theme ‘Ubuntu Sun’ finally has an official downloadable theme. The previous version we blogged about was a “fan” effort. Love it or hate it, Ubuntu Sun at least has tried to do things […]

6 December 2009
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Get a ‘Windows XP’ Desktop In Gnome By Running One Script

Like the Windows XP look and layout? Want it in Ubuntu with zero hassle? Well I have no sympathies, but “PhrankDaChicken” certainly does as he’s created a “one script” solutions that, yes, totally themes GNOME […]

4 December 2009
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Google Wave Metacity

This last week I’ve been banging on about the utterly gorgeous Google Wave Emerald theme. I don’t much care for Emerald and prefer to use Metacity. Thankfully the awesome AlexR1 on Gnome-Look.org has updated his […]

3 December 2009
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Android Icon/GTK Theme For Ubuntu

I love Android. I can’t afford an Android device, but still I love Android. I started porting the Android handset icons to a gnome theme when i came across iruel‘s similar attempt on Gnome-look. Called […]

1 December 2009
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Android Clock Screenlet Theme

I love Android. I can’t afford an Android device mind, but I still love Android. I’m currently porting the Android icon set into a Gnome theme using Genoid’s work so far as a base, but […]

1 December 2009
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MurrinaChrome – Best Chrome-like GTK Theme Yet

A few days ago I posted a gorgeous Emerald theme based on Google Waves’ interface. In that post I mentioned i couldn’t find a decent GTK theme to match it. Thankfully reader Nicolas came up […]

29 November 2009
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Google Wave Emerald Theme Is Way Too Gorgeous, Lonely

Google Wave has some beautiful window borders going on, and someone has taken the time to convert them into an Emerald theme thus bringing the beauty of Wave to you desktop. click to view bigger […]

27 November 2009
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Spatial Desktop: One Script, Ultimate Minimalist Desktop

Spatial Desktop is a theming script that transforms your GNOME desktop into a minimal and uncluttered space. Essentially  a combination of themes, applications and tweaks, it maximizes space by removing GNOME Panels, toolbars and applets, […]

25 November 2009
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Use Themes To Make DestroyTwitter Blend Into Your Ubuntu Desktop

DestroyTwitter is an Adobe Air based twitter client that is popular with many Ubuntu users. One of it’s lesser known features are its theming abilities. I’ve chucked together a list of some themes I’ve used […]

24 November 2009
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Elementary Theme XSplash

For fans of the ‘Elementary project‘ and their associated artwork you’ll be pleased to hear that the simplistic and minimal tones of Elementary have finally touched XSplash.  Created by design supremo Dan Rabbit (like the Karmic Humanity […]

15 November 2009
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3 Karmic Mock-Up Xsplash’s Brought To Life (.deb’s inside!)

Below are three very awesome Xsplash themes based on some of the original proposals for Karmic’s XSplash. They all come with handy .deb installers, too! All are the work of the respective designers but brought […]

14 November 2009