I have found the best, most professional looking theme ever!

[gymophett]

It's called Balanzan. I love it. It looks better than any theme I've tried. Its professional and easy on the eye. It should be the Ubuntu default theme.
Here's how you get it:
http://theindexer.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/balanzan-theme-nice-ubuntu-theme/

And my own personal screenshot attached.

It installs EVERYTHING, GDM, Theme, Fonts, Icons, and they look great!

So far, no bugs.
I will be using this for.... ever?

[CJ Master]

Now this is what Ubuntu's Human theme should look like. It's brown, but it actually looks good.

[Bios Element]

Eh, I gotta say I hate it. As in, It's just horrid. >.> I guess that's why you can change it. ^_^

[ninjapirate89]

I feel the same way about this theme as I do the default. It's good, but not for me.

[gymophett]

Eh, I gotta say I hate it. As in, It's just horrid. >.> I guess that's why you can change it. ^_^

Lol, I love it, but whatever floats your boat.

[mc4100]

I admit the icons do look nice, as does the gdm, but otherwise it looks like human-murrine with some changes and better colors. Not really the best theme ever (the window buttons, for example, still leave a lot to be desired).

[gymophett]

I guess the buttons could be more... umm better? Wait, that didn't sound right.

[Sealbhach]

I prefer the Hanso theme, which I'm using now:

http://i40.tinypic.com/2ebbg47.jpg


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[SomeGuyDude]

Not bad, but those icons look like they were drawn with crayons.

[SunnyRabbiera]

Its just another clearlooks variant, big woop.

[swoll1980]

my theme ftw

[Bios Element]

my theme ftw

And your theme is....What exactly? >.> Looks pretty decent. Shiki-Colours?

[swoll1980]

And your theme is....What exactly? >.> Looks pretty decent. Shiki-Colours?

Oops #-o Yeah it's Shiki-brave with this wallpaper, and the gnome colors-brave icons, of course.

[mc4100]

my theme ftw
Same. I think the new metacity looks much better than the striped one though.

Edit: Also, Aerostream (http://ve1n.deviantart.com/art/A-E-R-O-S-T-R-E-A-M-70590157), found via the art forum, complements gnome-colors very nicely.
It's in many colours (for use with other -colors themes, or others like Pucko (http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Pucko+Modern?content=91937)).

[swoll1980]

Same. I think the new metacity looks much better than the striped one though.

I like the new one, too. I got so used to the stripe it looked kind of funny without it though.

[RiceMonster]

Sorry, but I think that looks ugly.


my theme ftw

Shiki is such a nice theme. It's perfect once I make the scroll bars a little thiner and coloured.

[lovinglinux]

I don't like it and it is definitely not easy on the eyes. When I saw your thread title I thought I would finally find a good theme that is not too white or too black, but turned out to be a huge disappointment.

[Happy_Man]

To each his own, I guess. Personally, I don't fancy it much. :(

But don't take this (and all the other posts) as a reason to stop using it! Everybody has their own preference, and if you enjoy using that theme, then by all means, go ahead and use it!

[swoll1980]

I also like that theme that Open Solaris uses, but I could never get it to install for some reason.

[RichardLinx]

I like the default Ubuntu theme better, and I'm not a big fan of the default Ubuntu theme.

[gymophett]

Lol, I guess my thread isn't so popular. :P

[MaxIBoy]

I like the Ubuntu themes, but the original poster's theme is just awful.

[tjwoosta]

It's called Balanzan. I love it. It looks better than any theme I've tried. Its professional and easy on the eye. It should be the Ubuntu default theme.
Here's how you get it:
http://theindexer.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/balanzan-theme-nice-ubuntu-theme/

And my own personal screenshot attached.

It installs EVERYTHING, GDM, Theme, Fonts, Icons, and they look great!

So far, no bugs.
I will be using this for.... ever?

its a decent theme sure, and even a good alternative to the default ubuntu theme (if you like feces brown all over your desktop), but as far as being the "best, most professional looking" i strongly disagree

but i guess themes are all personal preferences anyway

so congrats on finding a theme that you enjoy :)

[johnb820]

On the topic of themes, Dust has been rocking my desktop since I installed Jaunty RC. It has the sensibility of darkroom with the solution of grey so as not to make certain apps look like a film development room.

[gymophett]

On the topic of themes, Dust has been rocking my desktop since I installed Jaunty RC. It has the sensibility of darkroom with the solution of grey so as not to make certain apps look like a film development room.

Dust was nice, but made a white bar in Firefox, which I was extremely annoyed by.

& what is the most 'professional' them you have seen everyone?

[inso_741]

I prefer the Hanso theme, which I'm using now:

http://i40.tinypic.com/2ebbg47.jpg


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can you please tell us whats that font and maybe share the conky config???

[Viva]

I like this.

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Grey%20Blend?content=120374

[Directive 4]

It's called Balanzan. I love it. It looks better than any theme I've tried. Its professional and easy on the eye. It should be the Ubuntu default theme.
Here's how you get it:
http://theindexer.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/balanzan-theme-nice-ubuntu-theme/

And my own personal screenshot attached.

It installs EVERYTHING, GDM, Theme, Fonts, Icons, and they look great!

So far, no bugs.
I will be using this for.... ever?

hi, not my choice of pic but pretty good,

one question

how do you get the info in the middle of the bar to display there,
(ubuntu forums, gavin filebrowser)

i looked in add to panel to try and add that to my top panel to do away with my bottem but i can't find it

any ideas?

cheers

oh,

windows list is what i want,

no worry's

[asddf]

I too hate it, but that's whats great about Linux! It's YOURS.

[dragos240]

This is bumped 1 year - 3 days. Necromancy?

[BrokenKingpin]

Very ugly.

[Directive 4]

i'm using an old amiga theme.

[d_skillz]

Very ugly.

Gotta agree here, everyone's taste is different but I don't like it at all. Macs theme is grey and light coloured, Windows theme is translucent and blue. These are neutral colours easy on the eyes and professional looking. There is a reason most business logos follow a certain colour scheme. Brown/yellow too strong, too out-of-place.

[madjr]

I prefer the Hanso theme, which I'm using now:

http://i40.tinypic.com/2ebbg47.jpg


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love conky / wallpaper

hate most of the icons

edit:
lmao this thread is old, i thought the op had a competitor to lucid's theme, but lucid wasnt even an idea yet.

this shows just how much we've progressed. lucid looks good

[MaxIBoy]

Like the icons, but it's not a dark theme.

[Frak]

Get Giant Speck to do a theme. THAT theme should be default. The guy's good.

[JDShu]

This thread wants to eat your brains. I like the theme though, I think its better than Karmic's default. However to me, Lucid looks even better.

[earthpigg]

instead of a .deb, would you consider sharing the various pieces that make this up seperately?

[Redundant Username]

I prefer Elegant Brit (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Elegant+Brit?content=74553)

[koleoptero]

There's no such thing as "the best theme".

[YUMESUKI]

Meh . . . it doesn't excite me.

Speaking of themes, there is a theme called Mira that I find to be one of the most gorgeous and usable dark themes I have encountered.
GDM login theme
GTK2
Metacity
XFwm
Emerald
Can find it here (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Mira+by+sen7?content=117634)

This is my current. My only complaint is the Xfwm border, but making Xfwm4 themes isn't very hard . . .http://gnome-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=117634&file1=117634-1.jpg&file2=&file3=&name=Mira+by+sen7

[neoargon]

Nope . Somebody might like it . Not for me . Don't get how it is professional .

[WorfSOM]

It's nice and easy on the eyes, but nothing special. At least in my opinion.:)

[koleoptero]

It was good a year and a half ago when this thread was posted...

[Lucradia]

Nope . Somebody might like it . Not for me . Don't get how it is professional .


It was good a year and a half ago when this thread was posted...

/thread

[TriBlox6432]

my theme ftw

How did you replace the ubuntu logo in the upper left hand panel corner thingy?

[Lucradia]

How did you replace the ubuntu logo in the upper left hand panel corner thingy?

Search through the pixmaps directory under usr/share.

However, some themes store this icon elsewhere, hence why that theme uses the color-wheel.

[T2manner]

I think it's fantastic. Personally, I hate the new purple Ambiance theme. I wish they'd go back to the brown theme.

[Legendary_Bibo]

Mine is literally eye candy.

I'm thinking about mixing and matching the Gnome-Color icons, and changing my gnomenu theme to have a gradient of colors.

[CJ Master]

Mine is literally eye candy.

http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/EyeCandy.jpg

[handy]

The last thing in the world my eyes want is candy.

I modified my theme to be absolutely the easiest it could possibly be on my eyes.

Anything beyond that imho, is a waste of time & eyesight.

[Legendary_Bibo]

The last thing in the world my eyes want is candy.

I modified my theme to be absolutely the easiest it could possibly be on my eyes.

Anything beyond that imho, is a waste of time & eyesight.

My theme is fun. Also now my mom doesn't fear the computer, at least mine. She has an account with everything set up like mine, just with a different wallpaper, and different icons. She's lost on Windows.

[handy]

My reply was just relating to the quality of themes.

I wish that my 80+ year old mum was capable of being computer literate to the point of being able to just use the web, & a digital camera.

As intelligent as she once was, it seems to be all a bit too hard for her at this stage of the game.

This is what happens to us as our bodies degenerate, though, when we are young it seems impossible...

Sinister :lolflag: coming from an old bastard who's mind/body is degenerating as he speaks. :( (like everyone else who is beyond the age of 6 months old!)