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There are a million and one themes for GTK. I wish they had picked one - anything except the OSX clone. What they don't realize is that there are a bunch of ho

There are a million and one themes for GTK. I wish they had picked one - anything except the OSX clone. What they don't realize is that there are a bunch of howtos out there around customizing Ubuntu to "look like OSX" and this looks like one more. I wish this discussion could be around performance enhancements and innovations in usability, but I cannot get past the OSX clone-ness. In an admittedly egoistic sense, I am a loner Latitude/Ubuntu user in a world of Air/OSX all around me. This is not something I will be able to explain off. And this is in India. I assume it will be much worse in the US.

aroman 13y ago
I appreciate your honesty. You should know that we didn't "pick" our GTK+ theme. In fact, it predates the OS itself and is the result of (seriously) 100+ man hours of refinement and tweaking, including working with GTK+ theme engine developers. It was created to be beautiful and usable, not as an OS X clone. I can assure you OS X was used (along with Windows, iOS, and Android) purely as inspiration -- not as a target or design guide. There are only so many neutral window control colors. We use silver and black (apps can request to use the dark variant), Windows uses transparency, Ubuntu uses a muddy brown, and OS X uses chrome. If you really feel opposed, as you pointed out, there are dozens of excellent GTK+ themes. Some people have even written them specifically with elementary in mind[1]. Feel free to use them :) [1] http://www.elementaryupdate.com/2013/07/5-new-awesome-elementary-themes.html http://www.elementaryupdate.com/2013/07/5-new-awesome-elemen...