Installing a GTK+2.0 theme

[Carpentr]

This is my first time installing a GTK+2.0 theme. I downloaded the tarball containing the theme and then extracted it. When I extracted the tarball into a folder, it contained the following files:



I'm not sure if it's readable on some computers, but there are two folders within the main folder. They are labeled as gtk-2.0, metacity-1, and a notepad file called "ColorBit" which is the name of the the actual theme.

The notepad file has some writing in it, which reads:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=ColorBit
Type=X-GNOME-Metatheme
Comment=

[X-GNOME-Metatheme]
GtkTheme=ColorBit
MetacityTheme=ColorBit
IconTheme=Elementary_1.5.3

I'm not sure what to do next, as I have no prior experience with Ubuntu's desktop environment and GNOME. I am running the beta version of Lucid Lynx.

Help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[l.billon]

Hi!
Select your tarball archive in the System -> preferences -> theme, it should do the trick.

[darolu]

The most common way to install themes is to copy those files to /usr/share/themes/<yourthemename>; or you can simply drag the tar.gz file to your themes window.

[Carpentr]

@I.Billon That was a whole lot easier than I thought it would be. Thank you.

@darolu Alright, that'll be good to know incase the other way ever starts being difficult. Thank you.

Once again, thank you both.