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What are the best gtk3 themes?
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Best gtk3 themes
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Adapta
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Arc
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GNU General Public License v2.0
Free
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Papirus
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Numix
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Flat Remix GTK theme
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Adapta
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Adapta
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Adapta
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Cons
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Material design
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Looks like a phone UI
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PerceptiveTyphon's Experience
Dark theme has a nice background color
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Light and dark variants
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It's an abandoned (from Oct 2018) fork of Materia GTK theme
Proof that it's abandoned ATM.
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vlnux's Experience
Well documented sass makes it easy to theme the rest of your desktop accordingly. Changing colors is simple, too.
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Supports many desktops
Budgie, Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon, etc.
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Development of the Adapta GTK theme has completely ended
This seems the most healthy fork.
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Most complete theme
It styles every nook and cranny of the OS UI, even the ugly Java apps look beautiful using this theme.
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Developer is overly quick to drop support for 'older' distros
Example is that GTK3.18 support was removed the same day that Ubuntu released the GTK 3.22 based Ubuntu 18.04. Result - users of Ubuntu 16.04 based distros, many of which are supported for another 1 to 3 years, can't use the Theme without locating older versions.
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Customizable
Can change color, etc at build time.
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Easy installation on Ubuntu
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tista/adapta sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install adapta-gtk-theme
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Neat default color scheme
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Ergonomic
Not only looks good, but really accelerates work on desktop.
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Follows the material design guidelines
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Real dark theme
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Arc
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Arc
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Arc
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Experiences
3
Pros
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Cons
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Has both GTK2 and GTK 3 support
Users will be able to match their gtk2 and gtk3 themes easily due to Arc supporting both.
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Has some contrast issues
The theme is a low contrast theme so it really depends on the screen brightness if you see borders or the text, some elements don't even have borders - this makes the theme barely usable for portable devices.
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WiseSunWukong's Experience
animation lagging
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License:
GNU General Public License v2.0
Price:
Free
Developement Status:
Active
Maintainer/Developers:
@Andy C and @Andrew Zaech
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Really clean and nice-looking
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Bleak font colors that cause eye strain
The font color in Arc and Arc-Darker is not black, but lightgray after prolonged usage, it becomes apparent that this font color, combined with white backgrounds causes too much eye strain
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actionless's Experience
Can be recolored in Themix / Oomox app
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Supports gnome-shell
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Close button is not activated when cursor is moved to the top edge of the screen
The simplest of all ergonomic design principles is not followed.
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LoveableCeto's Experience
Low contrast. slow
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Customizable to dark or light themes
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Available firefox and chromium themes
There are matching themes for Firefox and Chromium for those that want to have a fully matched looking environment.
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Actively maintained
Actively maintained, support for it won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
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Papirus
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Papirus
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Papirus
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2
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Sharp, flat, and fresh
All icons look pleasing, especially with the Arc theme.
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Familiar
Used on Lubuntu and BunsenLabs, for example.
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Numix
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Numix
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Numix
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1
Cons
2
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Great for people who prefer dark themes
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Flat buttons and controls
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Not free
Official Numix Dark and its wallpapers are not free. The other one with the Xfce-look is free, though.
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Flat Remix GTK theme
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Flat Remix GTK theme
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Flat Remix GTK theme
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Very clean look
The additional color options are all very well thought out, too.
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Materia
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Materia
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Materia
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1
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4
Cons
1
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Good support for various DEs
Includes support for Gnome Shell, has a Cinnamon desktop theme, plus supports XFCE, Mate and all the usual suspects.
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No Round Corners
Let's be honest Round Corners is a must addition in 2022.
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Smurphos's Experience
Very nice GTK theme in dark and light and compact variants and very customisable via Oomox App.
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Under continuous active development
Responsive and helpful developer.
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Customizable via Oomox app
Users can build completely personal version easily using Oomox Gui app.
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Corresponding theme for Qt/KDE
There is a corresponding theme for the kvantum-engine under Qt/KDE.
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OneStepBack
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OneStepBack
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OneStepBack
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Experiences
2
Pros
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Cons
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Easy on the eyes
The color combination has been carefully engineered exactly for the purpose of making people comfortable, while staring at the monitor for a prolonged period of time.
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Looks old and dated
it's not flat
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CoherentAlcyone's Experience
Excellent themes. Reminiscent of Windows 95/98, CDE type GUI.
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Allows you to focus on what's needed
The design is extremely basic - using just 1 color accompanied by 3 shades of grey, OneStepBack manages to be a very functional theme without adding any flashy.
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Funky arrow button colors in FireFox
The developer is currently aware of this issue, however the fix can't be made until FireFox has an update.
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CaffeinatedLabbu's Experience
Perfect!
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DarK
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DarK
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DarK
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Seems to not be developed anymore
Link is not working and it is not possible to find an OnyX theme for GTK3 anywhere.
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Fully supports GTK3-nocsd
The theme fully supports the GTK3-nocsd hack so GNOME3-apps will integrate well into XFCE or MATE.
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No-GNOME etc. support
As it is made to support traditional desktop environments so there is no support for GNOME3 and its forks
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The color can be easily changed
A script is included to change the highlight-color to almost everything.
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Dark theme
It's a dark theme, so you might encounter the same issues as with all dark themes
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GTK2 and GTK3
Supports both GTK2 and GTK3.
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Has full HiDPI support
The theme and all included sub-themes have full HiDPI support.
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Zukitre
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Zukitre
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Zukitre
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3
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Cons
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Designed to be flat with sharp corners
The design of Zukitre differs from Zukitwo in that there are less gradients and rounded corners. It is also designed to be more flat.
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Only supports the latest release of Gnome Shell and GTK
For Debian or Ubuntu users this theme will not work as it only supports the latest version of Gnome Shell and GTK.
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Nice, cool, clean and productive
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Iris
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Iris
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Iris
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Cons
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Gtk3.20 not supported
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Multi GTK support
Iris supports newer versions of GTK3 (3.10/3.12) and also GTK2.
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Development not finished
Iris is still in beta so there may still be bugs and other glitches.
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clearlooks-phenix
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clearlooks-phenix
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clearlooks-phenix
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Good contrast
This theme has a good text and border contrast.
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MethodicalTerpsichore's Experience
Excellent traditional, simple & effective.
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Available everywhere
Clearlooks was basically ported to almost every OS or device so you can even make your virtual guest OS look like your host OS.
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XGnome Enhanced
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oomox
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oomox
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oomox
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Shape and gradient of controls can be changed
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Theme colors can match your terminal (xresources) theme or wallpaper
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Greybird
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Greybird
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Greybird
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Clean and productive
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Comes with a dark version
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Moka
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Moka
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Moka
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Cons
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Wide support
Besides this Gnome Shell theme there are multiple GTK and icon themes that match, giving the user a wide variety of themes to mix and match that still look great together.
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Does not work on older version of Gnome Shell
Moka does not work on Ubuntu 12.04 nor will it work on Debian Wheezy as they both use old version of Gnome Shell.
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Several distro specific instruction to download
Moka offers suers easy to follow instructions to download including PPA's for Ubuntu based distros and Fedora specific instructions to install its repo.
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Zukitwo
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Zukitwo
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Zukitwo
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Only supports latest version of Gnome Shell and GTK
Zukitwo only officially supports the latest release of Gnome Shell and GTK.
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Offers PPA for easy install on Ubuntu based distros
Zukitwo offers an Ubuntu PPA for Ubuntu based distros. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install zukitwo
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MacOS High Sierra
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MacOS High Sierra
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MacOS High Sierra
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Different OSes aren’t GTK themes
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APFS (Apple File System)
It adds speed, reliability, flexibility.
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ExuberantBeyla's Experience
it's link is not present ? wtf is apple.com? there i cant get its theme for gtk right?
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Elegance Colors
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Paper
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Paper
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Paper
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Not developed anymore
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There is jumpy behavior when switching from window to window
You can notice jumpy behavior when switching from a forefront window to window behind it. Both windows jump a little which can slightly disrupt normal working flow.
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Xfwm4 theme is not fixed
Paper's Xfwm4 theme does not match its greenish menubar in apps (Thunar etc).
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Vivacious Colors
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