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Elegance Colors vs Zukiwi

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When comparing Elegance Colors vs Zukiwi, the Slant community recommends Elegance Colors for most people. In the question“What are the best Gnome Shell themes?” Elegance Colors is ranked 11th while Zukiwi is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Elegance Colors is:

There is a PPA available for Ubuntu users, which makes installing a breeze. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:satyajit-happy/themes sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-theme-elegance-colors

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Elegance Colors

Zukiwi

Pros

Pro
PPA for Ubuntu

There is a PPA available for Ubuntu users, which makes installing a breeze.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:satyajit-happy/themes
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-theme-elegance-colors

Pro
Changes color

Elegance Colors can change it's Gnome Shell theme colors in accordance to the users GTK them, wallpaper or a user defined color.

Pro
Offers PPA for easy install on Ubuntu based distros

Zukiwi offers an Ubuntu PPA for Ubuntu based distros.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install zukiwi

Pro
Has matching GTK theme

Zukitwo Gnome Shell theme offers a matching GTK theme.

Cons

Con
Outdated

The theme project has been abandoned and there has been no activity for the past two years (the last commit was in May 2015).

Con
More involved to set up than other themes

Users need to run a command to run a process in the background for the theme to work correctly, which may be more involved than what users are typically looking for in a theme.