With a move towards every sleeker, ever more visually animated desktop themes and GUI’s it’s easy to forget how far the themes we use now have come along in such a short space of time. With that in mind here are some retro desktop themes in case all the fancy-pants themes of today have left you longing for the BeOS styling's of yesteryear…
WIP theme created by Tamara, using elements from OMG! Ubuntu! Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk
We love the work of Pr09Studio, real name Leo, here at OMG! – so much so that we’ve featured his wallpapers, his themes and even his pet dog several times already. Okay maybe not the […]
A new release of the popular Elementary theme has been made – adding improved support for Nautilus-Elementary, a revised style for the Midori web browser and some new look minimal scroll bars. The theme also […]
Talented designer MastroPino strikes again; yesterday we featured his wonderful Elementary Pidgin theme and today we’re excited to share with you his equally-sublime Empathy theme. I much prefer Empathy over pidgin but hate the default […]
Elementary is arguably one of the most popular 3rd party themes available so it can be rather annoying when using an application that don’t follow or fit in with the rest of your desktop theme. […]
We featured Pr09studio‘s elegant, airy & light ‘Smart GTK’ theme yesterday and today see’s the release of a dark version of the theme — and it looks very, very nice indeed: – Who knew that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Win2-7 Pack provides an all-in-one solution for transforming your Ubuntu desktop into one very closely mimicking Windows 7 — complete with Windows 7-style taskbar! Although OS skinning is not to everyone’s taste many people enjoy […]
Having just posted Dichotomy, an Ubuntu 10.04 Ambiance theme spin, reader armageddon dropped by my inbox to mention a Radiance theme ‘spin’ called ‘Equinox’ he spotted over on on GNOME-Look. And awesome it is, too. […]
Dichotomy is a theme with the aim to, quote, "…integrate Ubuntu’s original and distinctive identity (orange and brown) into Lucid Lynx’s upcoming Brand refresh." If you love the new Ubuntu colour scheme and, in particular, […]
Ubuntu 9.10 user wanting to use the new Ubuntu 10.04 light themes in anticpation of Lucid’s release? OMG! reader zpletan just dropped the following PPA off in my inbox to share with you guys. It […]
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 […]
With so many ‘Ubuntu Light’ inspired/tweaked/modded themes suddenly sailing about the blogosphere, I thought that it was time the very best dropped anchor into the OMG! port so we could check them out in a […]
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 […]