nice themes, are they working for gtk1 apps like synaptics?
i just regret the fact that you don't see anymore at first glance which window is in focus, they all look alike the unfocused one is just i tiny bit faded.. I like the fact that in human theme focused and unfocused windows have very distinct window title bars.

But of course... here's a shot:

http://news.softpedia.com/images/extra/LINUX/large/jauntynewartwork-large_004.jpg

I've always wondered why the people who make these themes feel the need to have the X in the top right corner to turn red when it gets moused over or pressed.
It just puts off a "Windows vibe". Not only that it tends not to go to well with the default theme in Ubuntu, which is heavy on the browns and oranges.

Just my 2 cents.

Those are some awesome looking themes!

GREAT!!!

I just ran across these themes about a month ago and I like them all. I use Dust on my laptop and desktop. One of these should be the default theme.

Nice, but why does GNOME always have to have so much extra vertical spacing in their toolbars.

The Dust themes, in using the same color for the titlebar and other toolbars, really make this stand out. It's an awful lot of brown up there...

If you take a look at the images instead of just skimming the page, you'll see the themes themselves are not very brown at all, they are dark, but not really brown - the default background from Intrepid however, very, very brown.

these themes are f*** ugly!. canonical needs to higher some real artists. They have excellent programmers, but sorry, when it comes to HCI, we still have a long way to go to catch up with the likes of Apple and M$

-spelling error: CHECK
-using a $ for the S in MS: CHECK
-still wasting oxygen: CHECK

In addition to what my good friend (that I'm meeting for the first time) James has to say about you, you're also absolutely incorrect in the "canonical needs to higher some real artists." as these are all community generated themes, not created by Canonical. So, basically what you're saying here is that you think that the people who, on their own initiative, took the time to edit & re-code these themes for free for anyone to use need to be better designers, right? So...where's the link to all the themes that you've worked on, again?

LOL!! Absolutely in agreement with James and Jonathan on this.. I, for one, have spent hours and hours contributing artwork so that others may use it for their open desktops. I and countless others enjoy being able to contribute in this way. Though constructive criticism is always welcome, downright negativity and ignorant comments are just--well, you really don't need people to point out that it makes you look tacky, uneducated and infantile - right?

They are just communauty themes, nothin to do with official work.

With a new set of icons life could be wonderful. Maybe for 9.10

"three new nice themes... all we need is a breathtaking wallpaper."

actually we also need new Icons to go with the new themes!

Why is it always dark and brown? Why don't make something more colorful and brighter ?

Saying "enough with brown" is like asking redmond to change from blue and Apple to stop using burnished silver and grey. The advantage of linux though is it is trivial to change to something else. OS X and Windows requrie third-party products to do anything with theirs.. The default desktops and themes on my PCs usually only stay in the guest account. My normal desktop will be changed after about an hour of playing with the new system 8)

However, really would like to have the scrollbars on the left. When using my tablet, my hand obsured the screen, (I'm left handed) I already move the window widgets over to the left (OS X style)

Frelling hell...

Nobody's said it yet (on this post) but I just can't help myself: *enough with the brown*!!!

Ubuntu, I know you're trying to be all warm and human-y and inspired-by-African-sensibilities-ish ... but enough with the brown. It's a drab, boring colour and looks terrible.

Totally agree. The brown theme has had its day. Considering user interface improvements were supposed to be a key goal of this release I can't really say I'm that impressed. Apple isn't exactly going to be quaking in their boots, which is a real shame.

ummm... ive been using dust for ages... in 8.04 / 10

Dust and New Wave are already included in Intrepid in the community-themes package, it's just not installed by default.

Hi Adam, yes they are... but the versions in that package are very old and they are not the same with the one above (different Metacity, color scheme, etc). Moreover... "Canonical does not provide updates for community-themes. Some updates may be provided by the Ubuntu community."

On the other hand, the new "gnome-themes-ubuntu" package is supported by Canonical until 2010 (as you can see from the last screenshot above).

Nice theme, the dust sand and wave one are nice - very easy on the eyes.

I for one have grown to like the brown. It is easy on the eye and it is unique, and it is great advertising, it immediately says I am not using Microsoft Windows. I am tired of blues and greens. Just because you have used a blue them for the last 10 years, it doesn't mean you have to use it for the next 20 years. Try something different.

New unsplash theme have been released on a new update.. im following since alpha 5

really nice unspalsh theme!

everyone update their alpha installations!

We know... it was released earlier today... it took us a little more to publish it, but here it is: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-9-04-039-s-New-Boot-Splash-107165.shtml

Enjoy!

OMG, more ghastly brown tones. It was almost predictable before I even clicked on the link. It's makes Ubuntu the saddest, drabbest linux version on the face of the planet. I'll stick with something either blue or green, thank you.

These are themes? They just like the same OS with different colors. Hardly what I would call a "theme". Seriously Ubuntu needs to figure out what a theme is, and simply changing the background image and colors of the toolbars and windows doesn't cut it.

I really like the brown. Blue/grey have been dominant since my TI99-4 and C-64.
I also agree with the comment about wasted vertical space, my laptop has a small but wide screen. Having 33% of widow a wasted on menus and icons is really frustrating.

These themes seem to be based on the basic OS X theme, especially Dust!

Looks like the same old, dingy, crap to me.

Please! Please! PLEASE! Give us something to choose over turd brown.

How is this theme different from Intrepid Ibex? All I see are differently colored title bars. Compix has more to offer in themeing.

Argh! What's the point? Grey, very dark grey or feeble sand? Who gives a crap? The problem with the interface is highlighted by that first batch of pics. How much of that explorer window is taken up with navigation, menus and ugly icons?

It needs streamlining.

The Dust theme is very nice, I don't like the others. I agree with the menu thing, it is incredible big, I'm also really really sick of the brown/orange, I've been using Ubuntu since Feisty.

The themes are nice but what's really special is how easy it is tweak and change the themes to create a personal look. Don't like brown -- change it.

No more brown/orange/gold please, seriously they need to hire Mac OS X team for the GUI.

Agree with bubuzzz: why not more color and bright? And another thing, +1 with u Mike for removing brown.. it sux!

Gnome icons and toolbars also need to be reduced. Let's wait for 9.10

Hmmm NOT more brown :(

i think it would be nice to have nice fresh blue theme

I think Ill stick with my Moomex theme and tobacco sky wallpaper

I never use the standard theme anyway and has for the wallpaper. I just use the wallpaper tray a nice app that let me change at random my wallpaper every 10 minutes.

These are the best community made themes. but I'd like to see some official ones.

You will.... in Ubuntu 9.10 ... the new designers hired by Canonical are working hard on the new look of Ubuntu :)

Remember KDE 3.x gave users a choice of theme's when it first booted ..why can't UBUNTU do likewise ..ie brown African Scheme, Australian Scheme, USA scheme etc

The theme looks in my opinion quite fashionable. I have to admit though that I hope for a brighter theme.

The current iconset does not fit that well to the new theme too

The look & feel seems great...
but I think that in default themes there is too much wasted space...
buttons, menus, etc are too big...
I want to use my desktop pixels for my data, not for the GUI...

the "Clearlooks Compact" theme is a first solution...
but is not enough, compared to the free space in Windows desktops, it does not allow color customizations etc...

In my opinion... the road for a "useful desktop" is still long...

Is it me,
or do they all remind me of Mac OSX Leopard

Good article...thanks. What fonts are used in those screenshots?

The default font in Ubuntu 9.04 :) They are not tweaked or anything...

I could be missing something here, but when i tried installing 75111-UBUNTU LEAF and 54834-Ubuntu3D-GDM-2.0, ubuntu theme manager complained that there were invalid themes.

Ubuntu professional v2 installed though - so have the others been able to installed the afore mentioned themes?

i am very glad to hear about this ubuntu i love this os