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Dragonbite
March 4th, 2014, 05:38 PM
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 (plans to upgrade to 14.04 when it is out) and am feeling nostalgic of the "old" Ubuntu; Human icons, multi-color logo, old wallpapers, etc. I am thinking of the Ubuntu before it went "purple" and the monochrome icon.

Is there already a theme I can install which does this (why re-invent the wheel) ?

If not, how can I go about changing the Ubuntu logo (which opens the dash) into the multi-color logo/icon and possibly change the top panel's color?

I assume that the Human icon theme is still available and the wallpapers can be collected via Google (I already have a bunch of them downloaded).

Dragonbite
March 12th, 2014, 02:43 PM
So, I guess there are no retro-themes and nobody knows how to change the ubuntu icon to the multi-color one?

ibjsb4
March 12th, 2014, 03:35 PM
You want to give Unity the old gnome look. You may well be the only one on the planet that wants to do this :)

Have you searched gnome-look.org?

23dornot23d
March 14th, 2014, 05:02 AM
Wallpapers - old logo - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=old+ubuntu+orange+logo+wallpaper&client=ubuntu&hs=eUf&channel=fs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&biw=1049&bih=521

Humanity - icons - https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=%22old%22+Ubuntu%3B+Human+icons&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr#channel=fs&q=old+Ubuntu+Human+icons

I searched through the gnome-look.org ..... many variations - but none seem to keep to the original design - even going back as
far as 2009 .......... back to 2008 there are the really old logo ....
but multi-coloured

http://i.minus.com/ibwcH0JekGH9ge.gif

not mono ......

http://gnome-look.org/content/search.php?xsortmode=new&search=1&type=0&user=&text=logo+ubuntu&sort=0&scorefilter=0&license=99&page=41

Interesting going back through the evolution of logos and themes though ..... managed to pick some out that I like on the travel
back to the past.

deadflowr
March 14th, 2014, 06:49 AM
how can I go about changing the Ubuntu logo (which opens the dash)

Don't know much about the rest of this, but that icon in the /usr/share/unity folder.
(It's in one of those sub-folder, 5 or themes on precise, newer versions of Ubuntu have different subfolders)

the file though, is called launcher_bfb.png

You can change it to any thing.
Once in a very very long while an update might come that resets that folder.
But that is really rare.

Buntu Bunny
March 16th, 2014, 07:57 PM
Attached is what it looked like when I signed on for Ubuntu. Also an "improved" version since I never did care much for orange.

MorningWood
March 31st, 2014, 05:48 AM
Ahhh nostalgia.