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12.04 wholly dark Ambiance theme?

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http://askubuntu.com – I got my first partition of Ubuntu recently, and wanted to match it to a 10 or 11 interface I was using on another computer. It looked like this: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_1QSDkzYY2vc/TGpkWVfmvHI/AAAAAAAABso/afo6VrpWUu4/am... Themes in 12.04 seem to be rather tricky though! I've delved into usr/share/themes and ~/.Themes countless times with gtk-2 and gtk-3 trying to get things working, using Appearance and Advanced Settings (from a "tweak" somethingorother). Nothing has worked though, and the themes I've found so far are ugly to boot. All I'm looking for is straight up (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 08/20/2012

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I very much like to use the Zukitwo theme as an alternative over the standard Ambiance theme, it is to my taste more easy on the eyes.

However, the theme takes away the scrollbar arrows or "steppers" (which are normally part of the scrollbars in e.g. thunderbird and firefox in the Ambiance theme).

Found a lot of themes while surfing websites for the best Dark Gnome Themes, those themes will required GTK 2.x , Emeraled, compiz for extra visualization. you can make your own customization using Emeraled or basically customize theme from Appearance Preferences.

Dark text color on dark menu 1 year 17 weeks ago

After I rebooted 15 min ago, I noticed that Unity clock and menu text changed to dark for apparently no reason, so I rebooted again in a hope to remedy.

I'm using a modified Ambience theme (found in the Ambience-colors package, here: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/download-ambiance-and-radiance-themes.html ) and the right-click menus of the Ambiance colored themes are white, just like the original Ambiance theme on 12.04 (but there are mods for that one)

How can I change the color of the right-click menu to black with the Ambiance-color theme?

I did some searching and couldn't find a clear answer to how to change the unity window themes. (Ambiance, Radiance, etc)

I am looking to install a new theme because I do not care much for the default ambiance or the other ones that are already installed. When I do a search for 12.04 unity themes all I see is stuff on changing the unity launcher which is not what I want to do...

Any help?

There is currently a lot of work going on to improve the Ubuntu light themes: Ambiance and Radiance. Unfortunately all these changes are not even available in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat as we know it came with really good looks. The default Warty wallpaper and the updated Radiance and Ambiance themes are really an eye-candy. But after a few weeks of regular usage, we are actually bored of the GUI. So we want a change. For that we have found a few themes to be installed in Ubuntu that will give our Ubuntu Gnome Desktop a cool new look.

nabeelimran wrote:Nice review and sum-up :-)One more thing I noticed that the gconf theme settings don't work if the themes are in ~/.themes. They have to be placed in /usr/share/themes.You are right about the ~bird theme series. These have been made fro XUbuntu specifically.

I'm not sure if this a bug as I didn't found anything conclusive, most Themes are broken in Gnome 3.3.91 and had been broken ever since Gnome 3.3, However i see that the Ambiance and Radiance themes are not?.

What changes were made that only those Themes are looking fine but the rest aren't?

Note: This isn't exclusive to 12.04 I must add, this happens in 11.10 if one adds the Gnome 3 PPA.