14 DAY TRIAL // Ubuntu contributor Didier Roche announced today the name and plans of the community theme that's being prepared for the upcoming Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) release.
As you're probably aware the Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) operating system will feature brand-new system theme and icons by default for new installations, and the theme has been developed by various members of the Ubuntu community instead of Canonical's employees. Until today, the theme was known as Communitheme, but from now on it's called Yaru.
"Yaru continues on the Japanese influences of Suru, and its meaning, “to do” or “to give” fits perfectly with this project: Yaru is here because we did it, we’re happy to give it to you to spread Ubuntu’s culture of sharing, and we hope it helps you do cool stuff on Ubuntu. Best of all, even the name was vetted in by the community," said Didier Roche.
Yaru is ready to become the default theme in Ubuntu 18.10
Work on the Yaru theme begun a few months back when Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) was release, but now it's finally ready to become the default system theme for Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish). The team did a great job to improve Yaru during these past few months and we think the theme looks great, sharp, elegant, and colorful.
Yaru features a warm and welcoming tone to the headerbars, sidebar background, and window colors, bright and elegant button sets, a more discrete blue for the text selection instead of the intense orange used until now, more beautiful notifications, as well as deeper depth effects, window shadows and borders, and transparency of the GNOME Shell that looks similar to the Unity 7 and Unity 8 designs.
Under the hood, Yaru is based on the GNOME Shell and Adwaita themes, which makes it maintenance a lot easier. In the coming days, Yaru will land in the daily build images of the upcoming Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) operating system for everyone to test it and send feedback to its creators, so we encourage you to test it as soon as possible before Ubuntu 18.10 hits the streets on October 18, 2018.
