elementary vs Moka
When comparing elementary vs Moka, the Slant community recommends elementary for most people. In the question“What are the best icon sets for Unix-like desktops?” elementary is ranked 8th while Moka is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose elementary is:
Icons have a dark border around plus a subtle shadow at the bottom and hilight on the top to improve the contrast with the background.
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Pros
Pro Good contrast
Icons have a dark border around plus a subtle shadow at the bottom and hilight on the top to improve the contrast with the background.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Cons
Con 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.