When comparing Zukiwi vs Papirus, the Slant community recommends Papirus for most people. In the question“What are the best gtk3 themes?” Papirus is ranked 3rd while Zukiwi is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose Papirus is:
All icons look pleasing, especially with the Arc theme.
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Pros
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.
Pro Sharp, flat, and fresh
All icons look pleasing, especially with the Arc theme.
Pro Familiar
Used on Lubuntu and BunsenLabs, for example.
Pro Active development
Cons
Con Only supports latest release of Gnome Shell and GTK
Zukiwi only supports the latest release of Gnome Shell and GTK.
Con Under GNU GPL3
This limits the use elsewhere.
Con Contrast issues / No border around icons
It makes the the fast and makes it simple to add more icons(since you can simply scale them) however the contrast is lost in some situations.
Con No Ideas
It just copies the icon-syle from a different system.
Con Just another material style copy
Con Lacks icon for backintime
Backintime tray icon doesn't display on the panel because Papirus lacks the icon.
